Door Lock Light

dconn · 10-24-2009, 09:53 AM

My Max is now one week old and I noticed last night that the unlock portion of my door lock button on the driver's side does not light up. The lock portion does however. I'm assuming that this is just something that needs to be fixed but it wouldn't surprise me if this was intended. Any ideas?

s-one · 10-24-2009, 11:40 AM

I think that is the way it is because mine is the same way.

af20 · 10-24-2009, 11:42 AM

i just looked at mine and its the same only the lock lights up so im assuming that is the way they intended it

s-one · 10-24-2009, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by af20

i just looked at mine and its the same only the lock lights up so im assuming that is the way they intended it

I can imagine it now. You read this post and ran out to your car to check.

dconn · 10-24-2009, 11:46 AM

That's why I said it wouldn't surprise me if it was intended. Makes no sense though. Thanks for looking.

longisland09maxima · 10-24-2009, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by dconn

That's why I said it wouldn't surprise me if it was intended. Makes no sense though. Thanks for looking.

It kind of makes sense in that the light notifies you that the door is unlocked. Probably like a safety light. I have not looked if it stays lit even when locked, if so then thats just strange.

af20 · 10-24-2009, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by s-one

I can imagine it now. You read this post and ran out to your car to check.

haha i actually did
i was curious what can i say

lightonthehill · 10-24-2009, 10:46 PM

I don't see anything very unusual about this. The switches are lighted only so we can quickly find them at night. This particular switch is an 'either/or' type, and the lock/unlock buttons are right against each other. If you can find either one, you know immediately where the other half is. So Nissan realized it was not necessary to light them both.

I think another factor here is that Nissan expects the normal routine to be to stop the car and turn off the ignition before unlocking the doors. If things are done that way, the dome and courtesy lights all immediately come on, the switches are all bathed in plenty of light, and we can easily find the unlock switch.

But it may be Nissan has reasons for this situation I haven't yet thought of. The one thing I DO know is that Nissan does have their reasons for this.

EDIT - I just thought of one more remote possibility. We have ways of turning off the automatic locking of the doors when the car reaches 17 MPH. Could it be that, as long as we have the auto-lock on, the 'lock' switch is lit, but if we turn the autolock off, then the 'unlock' switch is lit, so we can know just by glancing at the switches whether we are in 'autolock' or not? But I am probably reaching here.