An electrical gremlin has decided to visit my 1986 240 Wagon.

With the engine running,

Activating the dome switch towards the rear caused the key chime (you left your keys in the ignition!) to sound in a weak manner. The key chime was about half regular volume, and feeble.

This anomaly occurred for four cycles of putting the dome switch from center to rear. Then, the dome light came on like it should, and the key chime was silent.

Does this mean anything?

The dome light and door switch circuits meet at the forward edge of driver's door frame where the switch is. We had one 240 where one wire slipped off the switch connector and grounded out on sheet metal. Ours was so bad that the chime jangled all the time, we had to remove the fuse to keep our sanity until I fixed the problem.

The wires behind the switch are very short. Have a strong string ready to tie to the wires when you pull them off the back of the switch if you remove it. To fix our jangling chime I had to splice some extra length of wire onto one or both of those leads so I could work with it. The wires come out forward of the door frame edge, behind a paper panel that you peel off. You also have to take off some plastic trim that holds the carpet in place.

Hope this helps.


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