This one has me stumped . . . all of the dome lights in my '03 Disco-II work as they should when I turn the engine off and/or when the doors are opened. I cannot, however, turn the front light on manually. Nothing happens when I move the switch to "on" with all the doors closed. The lights for the second row seats and the cargo area (I have a 7-seater) do work correctly when manually turned on. All the bulbs are good. All the fuses are good. I removed, opened and cleaned the front light/switch assembly, but it still didn't work. I took the switch/light assembly from the rear of the truck (where it had been working correctly) and installed it up front to see if there was something wrong with the original front-switch that I couldn't see, but it did the same thing. I still couldn't manually turn the light on. Obviously not the biggest problem, but it's driving me nuts. Any suggestions?

 

I had a similar problem. Turns out someone replaced the sunroof motor and screwed up the wiring on the light. They didn’t reconnect a ground wire.

 

Thanks for the reply. Do you remember how/where the ground wire was connected? You wouldn't happen to have a picture would you?

This is definitely a possibility. I recently resealed the sunroofs and re-did the headliner, so I've had the sunroof motors, headliner, etc. pulled, and I could have missed a wire during reinstallation, but everything else is working properly, and I couldn't locate any loose wires when I pulled the lamp assembly and the switches for the sunroofs. I saw a reference to a ground wire in a post on another forum, but it turned out they were dealing with a certain specialty edition or overseas model that had a different light setup. I looked in the Rave, and there's no mention of a ground wire in the section for replacing the lamp/switch assembly . . . just the two-wire multi-plug. I don't see an obvious place on the lamp assembly to connect the ground wire. Or is the ground that effects the light actually on the sunroof motor?

Thanks

 

Pull your light fixture cover and light bulb.

Then Remove the 2 nuts holding the fixture on with 8mm socket

Once you Remove the light fixture you'll see a metal tab on then 🇺🇸 drivers side of the opening. There should be a green and black (99 model iirc) single wire with black plug.

That green wire with black plug slides onto the metal tab' that is what grounds your housing for the "on" switch.

 

Gentlemen, Thanks for the help! I found the wire and have my light sorted. I had mistakenly connected the wire to a lead on the sunroof motor. My question now . . . is there supposed to be another wire connected to this lead on the sunroof motor? The sunroof seems to be working fine, and the Rave doesn't reference any wires other than the multiplug in the removal procedure for the sunroof motor, but I wanted to double-check. I've looked around up there as best I can without removing more trim and dropping and the headliner and haven't seen any stray wires.

 

Good to hear! I can't help you on sin roof wiring. The 99 has no sunroof. My 05 tdi passat killed my liking of any sunroof. I do have a parts 03 disco with dial roofs. One stuck open.

 

I agree. I prefer the metal roof trucks, but I got this one for next to nothing, so no point quibbling.

I think the sunroof is wired correctly and that lead is just a head-fake from the good-folks at Land Rover.

 

Nothing connects to the tab on the front sunroof motor. You are all good.

 

Nope, nothing connects on the front dome light to the sunroof motor. The REAR dome light *does* connect to that tab on the sunroof motor, which causes confusion.