so the other day for some random reason, my hatch light just popped on, and the idiot light saying my hatch is open is not on. i made sure nothing was in the way. and its shut like normal...cant figure out what could make it randomly come on like that?!

Zak

 

S4 or S5?

I've never torn apart the S4 hatch cylinder mounted ones so, dunno how they get they're power source, I would imagine its a level sensing switch of some description - but Im nt sure.

edit: were you doing some crazy manuvering when this happened? or just sitting in traffic?

 

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ng+light+hatch
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ng+light+hatch
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ot+light+hatch
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ot+light+hatch

Although the 2nd isn't very useful, yay for searching.

 

i have an s4, and i just turned the car on, and the light on the dash, and the light in back on my hatch were on. popped the hatch, slammed it shut still on, i just turned the hatch light off in back, and have to keep staring at the idiot light

my5ababy: thanks for those posts!

Zak

 

No problem. Using search it took me about 3 minutes to find them all... hint... hint...

 

i guess i just suck at searching... putting **** in wrong or something thanks for the vote of confidence!!

Zak

 

are both latches latched? the hatch well stay down with just one, but the light will pop on, i usualy have to push on mine pretty hard to get it down

 

Tough love .

I guess you could try pushing down the hatch levers with a screwdriver or something and see if it's just your hatch not making a good connection/seating properly/whatever you want to call it.

 

mine has an on-off switch right on the thing, although its not good for much, its really dim