Dome light question?

[Rivieraracing]

The question I have are about the little reading lights or map lights, not sure what they are called, they are round and are with the rear heat controls on the ceiling in the front of the truck. When I open the door, every other light in the truck turns on except these 2 lights, is there a way to get them to turn on with everything else or are they just the exception?

 

[Rivieraracing]

Anyone ever done a mod to make them come on with the doors opening?

 

[Anthony]

Mine have always came on with everything else, I replaced all my lights to LED and its like an operating room in my car now cause its so bright!

 

[Rivieraracing]

Thanks for the help, I see yours is an 04 and mine is an 02, I wonder if they changed it up after 02? Any '01-02 guys out there that can answer my question?

 

[Rivieraracing]

Anybody??? '01 or '02 owners? Just wondering if I am missing something like I did with pushing the dome light switch 4 times to turn off the headlights? Anybody??

 

[Eagle]

the map lights?
Mine is like anthony's

 

[El Capitan]

Same as yours ive got an 01 but its never really bothered me. I guess pull the assembly out and bust out the soldering iron and see what you can do. If you figure it out lemme know that might be something i wanna do.

 

[uncleiceberg]

2005 KON - my dome lights also come on when i unlock the truck

 

[Rivieraracing]

Same as yours ive got an 01 but its never really bothered me. I guess pull the assembly out and bust out the soldering iron and see what you can do. If you figure it out lemme know that might be something i wanna do.

Thank for your info, just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one, it doesn't really bother me but it also doesn't make sense that they didn't make them turn on with everything else!! I might mess around with it to make them turn on, it really shouldn't be hard!!

 

[Rivieraracing]

So I finally tackled the project last week and now I have map lights that come on with the rest of the interior lights!! All I did was tap into the wire in the overhead TV screen I have for the back seats that turns those lights on with the interior lights and ran a wire in the headliner, around the sunroof and down through the front overhead console. To do this properly, you will need 2 diodes, one for each map light where this wire connects to, otherwise whenever you push the button for the map light to operate it manually, it will turn on all the interior lights (backfeed). I included a few pics of the install, I have more so if you need more info, hit me up!! If your lights don't turn with the rest of the interior lights like the newer trucks do, this is an easy and very useful mod to do!
For those wanting to do this mod, the diodes I used were Radio Shacks's part # 276-1653 which is a 25 pack of assorted diodes, any of those will work for this mod that's in the pack!