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Key illumination lamp won't go off....

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Perplexing. My darn key illumination lamp won't go off. Gotta be a short somewhere downstream from this little bugger. The footwell lamp switch is disconnected so that can't be it. The only other activation for this circuit is the door switches, both of which seem to be ok. I guess I answered my own question, a short somewhere. I really hate tracing something I can't see. What's the best tool or gadget to use to see if a wire has juice through it and how much? The other option is to take the lamp out I guess. I do remember hearing a frying noise a few weeks ago while working on my heater. Must've melted the insulation off a wire somewhere. Almost to the point of pulling the harness out and starting over, and it is only 5 years old. You think it might have something to do with my posting that picture on the MG site?



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Have you disconnected the wires at the door switches? That would be my first guess - those switches are pretty simple and could be the source of the short.
 
Uh Oh The MG gods have put a hex on you.
My guess would also be a short to ground between the switch and the lamp.
Get out the wiring diagram and a test light and have fun.
Check to see if the wire has rubbed through the insulation where it goes around the edge of something
 
Have been trying to add acut out of that section of the schematic. Can't add it under my post not as an attachment.Still havn't figured all the effects of this site.
 
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