[HeeyItsRen]

Today my car decided that the lights were just not going to turn on. The lights were working fine the day before and I had no problems until this morning when I got out of the house and noticed the lights weren't on. After starting up the car, the lights still did not turn on. Placed the car into DRIVE and the lights still did not turn on.

I turned the knob and placed it into off, placed it into the side lights, then to the normal lights and they work fine. Once I get to the AUTO feature, the lights in the car are turned off (No illumination from the dashboard buttons) and my headlights are not turned on.

How the lights worked before was when the car started up, the headlights would turn on and when I start the car and put it into drive, the lights would turn on. This time nothing happened.

Please if anyone knows the fix to this, i'd really like to know. Thanks in advance

edit 1: Forgot to mention, when I push the stick back my highbeams do not turn on but when i pull it forward to have the highbeams on manually, it works. The automatic door locks when placed into drive do not work as well

 

[funman1]

Sounds like the programming on your ECU got all scrambled up.
Need Techstream to reprogram all your features.
Or Carista has been known to be able to program features too.

 

[sweeneyp]

your edit about the high beams is normal operation. The locked high beam position only stays on when low beams are on.

Just to make sure the photo cell is working, does the gauge cluster respond to light and darkness? So independent of the auto headlights turning on and off the dash cluster will auto dim (this is separate from all the other dash lights) if the environment gets dark. The ~3/4" diameter dome in the center of the dash by the glass is the solar sensor. Try cycling that between ligth and dark (with 10-15 sec in each state) to see if the gauge cluster responds. That'll rule out the solar sensor.

The door lock thing is odd though...

 

[HeeyItsRen]

Damn, I completely forgot that I had this post up..

I gave the car a day off and that seemed to work. What I noticed coincidentally is that if I start the car with the remote starter and get into the car 5-8 minutes or so later after starting the car up. The problem begins. Once I start the car up again with the remote starter and let the startup end and then get into the car, It gets fixed.

 

[funman1]

Sounds like a bug in the programming of the remote start system.