How do you turn off 1994 jeep Cherokee lights if the car is off?

Answer 1

I had this problem a couple of months ago on a '94 Grand Cherokee Limited, along with a window problem where the passengers' window switches would not make the windows go up and down; it turned out that the problems were not related. For the lighting problem, there is a sliding switch on the lower part of the dash to the left of the steering wheel that controls the brightness of the instrument panel. If it is set to the far right position it keeps the interior lights on when the doors are closed and the car is turned off. Set the switch closer to the center to see if that solves the problem. If that doesn't solve the problem, it could be that the switch is bad; the Jeep place said that the switch is no longer available but there might be an aftermarket switch that could be found (where they didn't say).The technician also found a notification from the Jeep data base that a possible cause of the problem could be corrosion in the electrical connector for trailer lights (located near the trailer hitch at the back of the car). How that might be related to the interior lights is unclear to me, but the technician put dielectric grease in the connector. Somewhere in the trouble shooting process the problem went away, nobody knows why; the good news is that it hasn't come back. The window problem was resolved on this forum with the help of Hai Nguyen. The Jeep place said that the driver's switch console (which also supplies power to the passengers' switches) had failed but, as Hai suggested, I examined the wire bundle going from the body to the door and found that a yellow wire was broken. I soldered the two ends together and the passengers' switches worked properly again (for a lot less cash outlay).