Originally Posted by VPUPPY
if you are talkin about the dome light i think it may get power off the same wires as the map lights. on the driver side pilar(next to the windshield) under the plastic panel i think the wire runs for the map/dome light. what gets me is your wiper problem.
if you take your car to a shop, take it someplace that specializes in wiring, not an audio place. that kind of labor can be expensive cuz it involves a lot of time to test everything. for example, my shop worked on a expedition and put speakers in. one of the guys who put the door panel back on, screwed accidently into the courtesy light wire. it took 4 months for the fuse to pop cuz the screw slowly wore into the insulation then grounded out. the dealer took 6 hours to find it and the total for the bill was 700 hundred dollars, for them to track the wire down and tape it up. have you removed any panels inside the car recently?
hey VPUPPY, thanks for taking the time to write that up. Yes I did take the underdash panel to install a new steering column (was broken into and they destroyed it). The installation went without a hitch, just unplug the old harnesses and plug the new ones in, but that didnt cause any problems since i did it like 4 months ago.
I did poke around and saw where the map/dome lights go up to the pillar but did not open the pillar. I have the service manual w/ me which kinda shows which wire goes where but they're mostly wrapped in coils which makes it hard to find... any specific harnesses you know of that I should look into? What do i test for anyways w/ the voltmeter?
I'm thinking that there's stripped wires somewhere touching, maybe the wiper wires are near the dome light ones and they're touching i dont know... ugh, i would hate to spent all that money for someone to just poke around for hours and do 10 mins of "work".