Inerior lights.

lathbury · 22nd July 2010, 14:37

Hi I am fitting Simon's walnut kit and am having trouble removing the front interior light panel, I know there are five spring clips holding it but don't want to break anything, can anyone help please?. John.

Mike · 22nd July 2010, 14:41

John, the unit is also held in by two screws revealed when you prise the clear plastic light covers off.

hth

lathbury · 22nd July 2010, 15:30

Mike, Many thanks for that, you have saved me a headache. John.

Matt Wright · 22nd July 2010, 16:28

Since I bought my 75 SE CDT the interior lights have not worked. At first i thought it was because I didn't understand how you switched them on! I had read you have to hold one button down. Tried that but it doesn't work. I presume a bulb is out but all three are not working so before I start prising lenses off is there any advice?

Mike · 22nd July 2010, 17:30

Hold the centre button in for iirc 10 seconds and see what happens. The lamps should flash and then work

Devilish · 22nd July 2010, 17:42

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Originally Posted by Matt Wright

Since I bought my 75 SE CDT the interior lights have not worked. At first i thought it was because I didn't understand how you switched them on! I had read you have to hold one button down. Tried that but it doesn't work. I presume a bulb is out but all three are not working so before I start prising lenses off is there any advice?

I suspect a fuse has blown

1/ Remove the front courtesy light bulbs and test them, replace any faulty bulbs, ignore the others for now. If you still have no courtesy lights

2/ Remove the panel below the glovebox, locate and test/replace the courtesy l;ight fuse, the fuse layout is printed on the inside of the panel. If you still have no courtesy lights

3/ Put an ohmmeter across the earth connector at the interior light to check the light is earthed, if no earthn you need to find the central earth point for the courtesy lights.

4/ Go straight to the source. You should take a look at pin 12 on the 20 pin C0661 connector at the BCU. This is the 12v output to the interior lighting system. Remove the glovebox and lower the BCU located at the top of the void space. Without unpluging the connectors use a test meter on the back of connector C0661 pin 12. I use a darning needle attached to the probe to get inside the connector, it should read 12v.

MO is that you more than likely will not have power there, I cannot imagine the pulse signal to the BCU has failed from every door.

If you do have 12v at this pin you need to trace the wire until you come to a break

Matt Wright · 23rd July 2010, 21:54

Thanks all, will experiment and see what happens.

22nd July 2010, 14:37	#1
lathbury Posted a thing or two 75 Conn S.E. Cdt. Join Date: May 2007 Location: Merseyside Posts: 1,803 Thanks: 1,873 Thanked 52 Times in 49 Posts	Inerior lights. Hi I am fitting Simon's walnut kit and am having trouble removing the front interior light panel, I know there are five spring clips holding it but don't want to break anything, can anyone help please?. John.

22nd July 2010, 14:41	#2
Mike This is my second home Rover 75 V8 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,448 Thanks: 0 Thanked 206 Times in 32 Posts	John, the unit is also held in by two screws revealed when you prise the clear plastic light covers off. hth __________________ Mike [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

22nd July 2010, 15:30	#3
lathbury Posted a thing or two 75 Conn S.E. Cdt. Join Date: May 2007 Location: Merseyside Posts: 1,803 Thanks: 1,873 Thanked 52 Times in 49 Posts	Interior lights. Mike, Many thanks for that, you have saved me a headache. John.

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Mike This is my second home Rover 75 V8 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,448 Thanks: 0 Thanked 206 Times in 32 Posts	Hold the centre button in for iirc 10 seconds and see what happens. The lamps should flash and then work __________________ Mike [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Last edited by Mike; 22nd July 2010 at 17:32..

22nd July 2010, 16:28	#4
Matt Wright Newbie R75 Saloon Join Date: May 2010 Location: Denbigh Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Since I bought my 75 SE CDT the interior lights have not worked. At first i thought it was because I didn't understand how you switched them on! I had read you have to hold one button down. Tried that but it doesn't work. I presume a bulb is out but all three are not working so before I start prising lenses off is there any advice?

23rd July 2010, 21:54	#7
Matt Wright Newbie R75 Saloon Join Date: May 2010 Location: Denbigh Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks all, will experiment and see what happens.