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When your headlights are on, and you touch the dimmer switch that controls the dash lights - is it hot? I went to adjust the dash lights while cruising tonight and the switch was real hot! Probably normal - but just thought I'd ask.
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Wife & Best Friend Mary - copilot. Posts: 5558 | From: Windsor, Ontario. Canada | Registered: Feb 2000
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If i remember correctly, mine is somewhat hot. I think it's b/c of the backlights behind there. I noticed that on other controls (such as ont he steering wheel). Also the ASR & foglight switches get pretty hot. It's just normal. Posts: 2651 | From: Enola (Harrisburg Area), Pennsylvania | Registered: Jan 2002
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Hawkeye can you email me your address and phone # would like to drop off some JL for JohnS and Hookerf14 .Will be leaving Sat bet 10 &2 (or12) pm going through Winsor.If you are not at home I can leave them by your house for them . Both mentioned about being at your BBQ.
Thanks Ed
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I have never driven mine at night so at the moemnt I wouldn't know. Guess I will have to check and see but its probably normal. Posts: 2841 | From: Westland, MI | Registered: Apr 2003
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quote:Originally posted by 35TH ED/ed: Hawkeye can you email me your address and phone # would like to drop off some JL for JohnS and Hookerf14 .Will be leaving Sat bet 10 &2 (or12) pm going through Winsor.If you are not at home I can leave them by your house for them . Both mentioned about being at your BBQ.
Thanks Ed
email sent - will be here till early p.m. then leaving for Toronto, but my wife will be home.
BTW this is post 48,001 on the porch!
Posts: 5558 | From: Windsor, Ontario. Canada | Registered: Feb 2000
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Same here, hot to the touch. Same on my S-10 and the Escalade. Must be a GM thing..
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Yes mine get hot also.... as has every GM vehicle I've driven. They use super tiny bulbs....
Posts: 1045 | From: Seattle, WA | Registered: Nov 2001
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Not odd at all. Your dimmer is nothing but a coil of high resistance wire with a contact that slides along it. The more coil between the feed line and the contact the higher the resistance and the dimmer the lights. Higher resistance also causes more heat. So the dimmer your lights the hotter the switch will be. Also your dash lights get very little convective cooling being inclosed in the dash panels. So the brighter your lights the hotter your dash panels will be.
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I noticed that too. I have sence turned down my interior lights for 2 reasons. One so I wont burn myself and curse infront of my girlfriend. It can hurt if you dont remember that it is hot. Two is with all the lights lower inside, I can pay more attention to what is going on around me outside. In southern California, that is a big help.
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