Alicia Cramer

Please help!! My interior lights on my 96 jeep grand Cherokee will not turn off even with the car off and the keys are taken out of the ignition! I checked the "always on switch" as well and it doesn't look like that is the problem.. so I've been unhooking my battery so that it doesn't die due to the lights not turning off! Does anyone know or have had this problem? Please help! Thank you!

mchrono

Welcome to Rennlist. You probably wont be able to get much JGC tech support here, but a nice thing about a your Jeep is that the wiring diagrams are freely available online. Try asking at https://www.jeepforum.com/

911Königin

Maybe also pulling the fuse to that particular area???? Loved my Jeep, great trucks

alordofchaos

Check your door switches. Cars of this era typically had a spring-loaded switch that would push in when the door is closed (and spring out when the door is opened) which turned the interior lights on and off. (the switch is how the car knew if a door was open).

Check around the frame where the rear of the front doors would close.

Often what happens is: the spring breaks, the plastic plunger breaks, or the door / frame rusts around the switch and the whole switch gets pushed in, instead of just the plunger. Occasionally, the switch is grounded by the mounting screws and that area rusts.

This is a door switch
https://www.quadratec.com/p/crown-au...SABEgL7f_D_BwE

video showing location and how to replace

Guessing OP found this forum by mistake?