hehe. my mom's van "used to be" a real posessed son of a b when it came to the electrical system. first time around it had this little issue with the door ajar light, dome light, and chimes where it would constantly register a door as being open despite all our attempts to rectify this. as well, the dome light and dinger would constantly go off UNTIL you got it up to 15mph at which point the dome light would go out and chime would go out. bring it back down to 10mph and the chime would come back on, but no light. light would continue to stay out until the vehicle was restarted.
one of the more recent troubles has been related to the battery where leaving it sit for no more than a day or two would cause it to drain the battery to the point of no more than the starter "clicking". usually a jump would cure this, but at one point it even refused to do anything. but that seemed to cure itself up just fine for whatever reason, but we still had the battery drain problems.
in any case, the final "end all" fix was a combined short in the dome light and a faulty door ajar mechanism in the drivers door. fixed both and everything is cured. even the battery issue.
'96 White Ford Windstar with just over 100K miles
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