Door switches for interior lights...

[Oystercopy]

Hey guys..so for the longest time, I've not been able to put bulbs in my interior lighting, down at the corner of the convertible trim panels. I put a whole new rear light harness in a couple of years ago, thinking I just had a short somewhere and the lights wouldn't turn off when the door was closed. I had tested the door switches multiple times, each time they seemed to ohm out properly with my meter. Well, I finally gave up and let the shop do it and they found... BAD SWITCHES!! It turns out the switches (appeared to be the original factory ones) can fail internally, having a plastic slide insert (insulator) inside the switches, that can make them short to ground.. WHO KNEW? I attached a picture here for reference for the switches I'm talking about. These are not likely the ones they used, but they were able to find them close by at a local auto shop. FYI, don't trust your door switches...!! Even if you test them. they could still be bad!

 

[pschlosser]

FYI, don't trust your door switches...!! Even if you test them. they could still be bad!

Should I be looking over my shoulder?

 

[EW1BH27]

Thanks for the alert. It's weird that your meter didn't detect the short though. A couple FYI's: Vans Auto sells reproductions and, I think, it was in 1972 that the E-bodies went from a 2 prong to a 3 pin switch.