Dome lights only work sometimes?

[C.J. McFalls]

Greetings!

 

MY wife and I just purchased a 2011 Edge SEL. LOVE the car! With they had these out when we purchased our old Escape!

 

But, we have noticed a problem. Sometimes the dome lights will come on when we open the doors, and sometimes they won't. Seems like a 50 / 50 thing. We especially notice it when we get home and pull into the garage. We will turn the car off, open the doors, and get no dome lights. But, other times it works just fine.

 

Anyone experience this? There isn't an light sensing feature or anything affecting this is there?

[thirdgenlxi]

Does it do it with multiple doors? Likely culprit would be a door ajar switch, but unlikely multiple ones would be out at the same time (possible of course, but not likely)

[C.J. McFalls]

Does it do it with multiple doors? Likely culprit would be a door ajar switch, but unlikely multiple ones would be out at the same time (possible of course, but not likely)

 

Yes, multiple doors.

 

To complicate matter,s i just realized it's limited to the front dome lights; the back ones seem to come on just fine. It almost acts like a short of some sort. Because the front dome lights work when I manually press them. But, when I press the dome light button, only the back dome light comes on (which is the same one that comes on when I open the doors).

 

Short?