Help - Jeep Wrangler question!

Hey guys... I had a friend's two eight year olds clambering around inside a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon I've got this week. The damn rear dome light won't go out. Is there a button I'm missing? The main central one was turned on too, but I've manage to figure that one out.

Did you remove the doors? If so, you probably need one of these:

http://www.quadratec.com/products/13029_100.htm

Nah, you just need one of these.

(for the bulb, not the kiddies)

LOL, thanks guys. The middle dome (if anyone else is dumb enough to have this dilemma) has push buttons on either side. To turn off the rear dome however, you just depress the entire light.

My 4-Runner has three lights, it took me years.

Thanks... if there was an "embarassed, blushing, dumb-ass smiley" it would be me.

Maybe, but it OUGHT to be the guy who signed off on the plan to save 17 cents a unit and not put in a real switch. Pushing the whole light is counterinituitive: most lights get hot, so most people don't poke them when they're on. Duh. Not to mention the question of, by definition, getting the lens dirtier every single time it's used. I'm sorry, I just can't see an argument in favour of this. (And I know Jeep isn't the only offender, because there's two such lights in the overhead console of my sister's Trollblazer in my driveway right now. They're a dumb idea there, too.)

(rant off)

I get that Jeeps can go off road and stuff, but people that actually drive them on real roads are like total masochists.

Yeah, no kidding! It's like driving a wiggly, jiggly box. With a honking long six-speed shifter. Just great in big city stop and go grid-lock.

I always wonder what happens to owners manuals.

1988RedT2 wrote: I get that Jeeps can go off road and stuff, but people that actually drive them on real roads are like total masochists.

Yeah, like the guy who drives a Miata (or insert any other car with sporting pretensions) with lowering springs, urethane bushings and tires that are useless on wet roads
Jeeps are a blast to take off road and they can be fun on the street (I know, I've owned dozens of them). Top down, doors off at anything above 30 degrees it's a blast!

DrBoost wrote:

1988RedT2 wrote: I get that Jeeps can go off road and stuff, but people that actually drive them on real roads are like total masochists.

Yeah, like the guy who drives a Miata (or insert any other car with sporting pretensions) with lowering springs, urethane bushings and tires that are useless on wet roads Jeeps are a blast to take off road and they can be fun on the street (I know, I've owned dozens of them). Top down, doors off at anything above 30 degrees it's a blast!

Your confession to masochism is duly noted!

1988RedT2 wrote:

DrBoost wrote:

1988RedT2 wrote: I get that Jeeps can go off road and stuff, but people that actually drive them on real roads are like total masochists.

Yeah, like the guy who drives a Miata (or insert any other car with sporting pretensions) with lowering springs, urethane bushings and tires that are useless on wet roads Jeeps are a blast to take off road and they can be fun on the street (I know, I've owned dozens of them). Top down, doors off at anything above 30 degrees it's a blast!

Your confession to masochism is duly noted!

Sweeeeeet

im pretty sure this argument has happened before

In reply to Lesley:

so what do you think of the trans otherwise? i always liked how smooth and easy the old 5-speed jeeps were to shift.

my big gripe on the JK was the (lack of) throttle response off idle. it was as if the first few hundred rpm above idle is only controlled by a pressure sensor rather than the movement of the pedal. was so annoying. either i was revving it up to 2500 leaving a light, or nearly stalling the thing. i hated it.

Yeah, no kidding eh? Took it through rush hour stop and go gridlock on Monday, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 2nd.... was in a pretty foul mood after 2.5 hours of that. Once you get moving it was kinda fun though.