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Re: Maplight

To: Spit-list <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Maplight
From: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:31:04 -0500
Step one: Remove all the interior components of the map light.

Step two: Send them to me. (My map light is just an empty shell, a DPO's
solution to your problem, I guess.)


"Wayne H. Francis" wrote:
> 
> Listers -
>      In the years that I've had the '79 1500, it was always an
> annoyance, but not a crisis, that the maplight was always on
> illuminating the passenger side of the car when the headlights were on.
> I always assumed there was an "off" switch somewhere that I would find
> someday.  The Spit User Manual says "An adjustable map reading light
> located on the fascia can be illuminated by moving the light body whilst
> the instrument lighting circuit is operative".  Well, I've moved the
> body quite a bit and it just stays on...looks like a single hot wire
> feeding the light and upon disassembly can't find anything that would
> function as a switch.  Help?
> Wayne Francis
> Ojai, CA
> 50 MGTD
> 79 Spitfire

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