Center console storage box light stays on too long?
- Thread starter Flycaster
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It's more than likely the microswitch has come loose. If you look at the bottom of the lid, in the centre, you will see a plastic lever sticking out, follow this forward and there is a little switch that it pushes in to turn the console light off. If you remove the plastic cover above the switch you should be able to dig out the switch and relocate it.
A few people have had this same problem so if you do a search you should find some more detailed help.
The 15-20 minutes before the light goes off, this is the car switching off. The car initially goes into a "standby" mode and then shuts down fully after 15-20 minutes.
ADD: BMW TIS - 61 31 345 Removing and installing/replacing microswitch for storage box lighting
Although I managed to do it without removing the lid first, extra faff though.
A few people have had this same problem so if you do a search you should find some more detailed help.
The 15-20 minutes before the light goes off, this is the car switching off. The car initially goes into a "standby" mode and then shuts down fully after 15-20 minutes.
ADD: BMW TIS - 61 31 345 Removing and installing/replacing microswitch for storage box lighting
Although I managed to do it without removing the lid first, extra faff though.
Hold on! I checked for the place where there the switch should have been and found nothing. Is it possible that there is no switch? I guess I'll have to remove the console door to get a better look...although by opening the door half way one can readily see what's there and can feel around for the switch and I found nothing???
EDIT: OK, I've taken a better look at the cover (Picture #2) and it does seem that mine is quite damaged. Clips are broken and so is the and so is the part that lies between the "1" arrows in picture 2. I still haven't taken the lid off to gt a better look to find the switch...hope I find it, but i feel that I must have really screwed things up.
EDIT: OK, I've taken a better look at the cover (Picture #2) and it does seem that mine is quite damaged. Clips are broken and so is the and so is the part that lies between the "1" arrows in picture 2. I still haven't taken the lid off to gt a better look to find the switch...hope I find it, but i feel that I must have really screwed things up.
pvr, I've taken to that approach - putting the wire in the hole at the side seemed a lot of messing about and ulimately didn't seem any smoother. Although, kids, that is the official removal method anything else is at your own risk :wink:
Yeah, is odd... considering the microswitch is almost held on by gravity the lid config seems completely over engineered.
It could be that the little tab in the flap that shuts off the micro switch has snapped off. This is fairly common.
Mine has. Think folks have fixed by sticking bits of plastic on to replace.
The light will stay on for sometime after you lock up.
Nothin to really worry about as it doesn't stay on permanently.
Mine has. Think folks have fixed by sticking bits of plastic on to replace.
The light will stay on for sometime after you lock up.
Nothin to really worry about as it doesn't stay on permanently.
Flycaster said:
There's a small hole in the side of the lid that you're meant to push a strong wire through, as in the instructions below...
BMW TIS - 51 16 239 Removing and installing/replacing lid on rear storage box
From looking at your nicely supplied TIS 5116239, I can tell that I definitely didn't use any wires when I removed the console to install my alarm and ipod stuff. So, I must have broken off the slotted cover from its mounting and the switch apparently dropped down deeper into the abyss below it (?) Stilll haven't had a chance to open things up to see just where the switch is, but assuming I'm right, how difficult would it be to set things right? Or, I have no problem just shutting the box light off--how would that be done?
Flycaster, I do the same as pvr, these days, I don't think you have irreparably damaged anything. Just get the little cover off off, above where the switch is, and you'll soon find it - the microswitches are known to just come off over time, shocking design from BMW on that one.
Put your vin into realoem, it will be on there. Mine looks different to others I've seen so better use a definitive source, or ask a dealer.
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https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/bmw-microswitch-61316916426
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