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I am not sure how this relates to Utes, but keep in mind that with the Sedans the requirement for Premium Audio was because the wiring loom that came with Premium Audio, provided the additional wire in the plug for power feed.

This is why you had to add an additional PIN in the switch socket.

My recollection was that those Sedans that did not have Premium Audio could not have the Switch lights working unless you ran an additional power feed external to the existing wiring loom.

Again....not sure how / if this relates to Utes.

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Mine is Standard crappy sound, I just added in the pin and it works. The extra pin provides a variable resistant path to ground as the main power is supplied from the circuit board main power. The extra pin is controlled by the dash light control (so it also dims when you dim your dash lights).

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Just a quick edit... You will need winzip to view the zip file I posted, if you cant open it let me know and I'll email the pics to you separately.

If you want this done and you want to send me the switches there are pics in the zip file showing you how to remove them from the doors. If you have any dramas dont hesitate to email or PM me. Good response so far. Might have to draw up a waiting list :laughing: hehe jk.

Steve.

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one question with the lights

with the old discussion when the nz turbo performed this mod he had some troble in back flow or something like that with the fog lights, this is were the ghia is different it has some sort of other elec componits

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Have a listen to this story....

I have a Mk2 XR6T and should have had the lights from the start, however....

I specified leather seats for my car, and they forgot to deliver them, so... they offered me the luxury pack seats at no extra charge as they had some in stock, and could swap them over, sounds good so far?

Well... the car that they took the luxury seats from somehow ended up with Mk1 doorpanels, without lighted switches, and they were a plain black vinyl, not the ones I was suppose to get with the luxury seats. So... I ended up with the wrong ones swapped in. So.. back again to get the right ones.

They sourced the right door trims and replaced them - but left the unlit switches, which I finally noticed (first time I drove at night) later that week.

So.... back to Ford to get them working. They put new switches in, but rang to say that the back ones didnt light up - was I expecting them to. Now to be honest, I wasnt sure - I had seen you guys making your back ones work, but didnt know if standard they had them - so I said I didnt know - but assumed they would.

Anyway - so I turn up to collect the car - get all sorts of stories like the official word from Ford was that they no longer light the back switches on XR mk2s, they had several technicians spending hours trying to make them work, and couldnt do it short of running new power wires. To which - I flicked the kiddy switch off - and hey presto - the lights worked!

Shows a little incompetence maybe? Dont trust everything you are told!

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that's one of the funniest things I have heard in a while.

I was wondering if they could get more incompetent!!! I dont trust a lot of things I hear, and its often too hard to explain to them what is actually right and often not worth it.

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I must admit - earlier on in the saga they gave me a free momo steering wheel for the mucking about - not much different from standard - just leather instead of leatherette - but it was free!

Happy with the car - but I was pretty pissed off with all the mucking about - over something as silly as doortrims!

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