2006 Escape Interior lights won't come on

Tommytiger · 10-10-2009, 03:13 PM

At first the interior lights would come intermittently. Sometimes they would and sometimes they wouldn't. Now they don't come on at all -- Fuse is fine. Anyone have any ideas what may have caused this?

BroncoJoe19 · 10-11-2009, 07:29 AM

Just guessing... dimmer switch on dash.
I'd check for power there.
Next guess look for the fuse to the Constant Control Relay module, (depending upon year, you may not have one, but this is general advice), or anything that looks like - Delayed Timer Module.

BroncoJoe19 · 10-11-2009, 07:31 AM

One more thing... using a test light one may test ALL of the fuses almost as fast as looking up the diagram in the owner's manual

How to check fuses
http://www.ford-forums.com/electrica...tml#post125472

wptski · 10-11-2009, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe19

One more thing... using a test light one may test ALL of the fuses almost as fast as looking up the diagram in the owner's manual

How to check fuses
http://www.ford-forums.com/electrica...tml#post125472

Gosh, can you really get down alongside the a inserted fuse with a probe of anykind??? Not much movement because of plastic all around it. On my '09 FE, engine fuse box, you can't even get a grip with fingers to pull because they are buried so deep. A removal tool is provided on the inside fuse box but not in the engine compartment fuse box!

BroncoJoe19 · 10-11-2009, 08:52 AM

Gosh, can you really get down alongside the a inserted fuse with a probe of anykind???
I'm not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not, but in case it isn't, the answer would be yes.

IF you can see the top of the fuse, you should be able to get the pointy part of the test light onto the top of the fuse. THere are two places of each fuse where the metal protrudes through the plastic. Simply touch each of them with the tip. It should light. If it lights on one side but not the other, the fuse is bad.

wptski · 10-11-2009, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe19

Gosh, can you really get down alongside the a inserted fuse with a probe of anykind???
I'm not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not, but in case it isn't, the answer would be yes.

IF you can see the top of the fuse, you should be able to get the pointy part of the test light onto the top of the fuse. THere are two places of each fuse where the metal protrudes through the plastic. Simply touch each of them with the tip. It should light. If it lights on one side but not the other, the fuse is bad.

Excuse me! I didn't know that was exposed metal through the end/top of the fuse! I always thought that there was a thin coating of plastic over it. If I would have looked at the other picture, I would have seen that.

It also means if you use a volt meter and measure across both points on the fuse, a good fuse will read 0V. A bad or open fuse would read 12V then.