[XiaoHu]

How difficult is this? I have the manual dome light that you have to push the striker switch for. It's not a huge inconvenience but if the parts are cheap and it's an easy upgrade why not?

 

[Corrolla clone]

How difficult is this? I have the manual dome light that you have to push the striker switch for. It's not a huge inconvenience but if the parts are cheap and it's an easy upgrade why not?

Right now mine works the same way as the door switches are rusted and won't flow electricity threw them (needs new switches). Maybe this is the same as your car. Does it have warning lights on/in the dash for a "door ajar" or door open warning? If so, then part of the wiring and switches are in place and the problem is in the actual dome light/dome light switch at the dome light itself (I'm trying to help you narrow down where the problem might lay). I hope this helps.

 

[DrZ]

You can take the door switches out and clean them up. My problem is the electrical connections in the ceiling switch seem to get slightly corroded so the light will flicker and not want to stay on sometimes. I think there are some rivets holding the electrical pieces together, so I wanted to replace the rivets with small screws, but it's not really worth my time at this point.

But the original question, if it's only on/off and not on/door/off, then you could probably get a switch with the door position and wire some stuff in. I never heard or knew that there were ones without the door position.

 

[XiaoHu]

Mine does not have the "door" function. It's a manual click-on/click off system that reminds me of old fashioned lamps.

 

[Corrolla clone]

You can take the door switches out and clean them up. My problem is the electrical connections in the ceiling switch seem to get slightly corroded so the light will flicker and not want to stay on sometimes. I think there are some rivets holding the electrical pieces together, so I wanted to replace the rivets with small screws, but it's not really worth my time at this point.

But the original question, if it's only on/off and not on/door/off, then you could probably get a switch with the door position and wire some stuff in. I never heard or knew that there were ones without the door position.

Yeah, I thought I saw a post (a while back) where someone removed their's and completely went thru it making it like new inside.

Agreed, I never knew there were models without the door switches. That's why I asked if it had the warning lights in the dash for an open door.

 

[XiaoHu]

It does actually have the warning lights, yeah. Sorry, I glazed over that.

I'll see if I can pull the light out gently and see if I can see what the harness has for it.

 

[93celicaconv]

XiaoHu, is this diagram for your car? If so, are you talking about the light labeled "A" in the diagram? Maybe post a picture of the one you have as installed so we can see it?

 

[Benjamin James]

The door switches in these cars work by grounding the conductor coming back from the lamps, that's why it's so easy to add a headlight chime afterwards, the chime just wires up from a (+Ve) 12v on a park light cct to the wire on the door switch - when the door switch closes (the door opens), it completes the circuit giving the chime a positive and a ground.