97 Courtesy Lamp Issue

On the driver's side door courtesy lamp, I changed out the bulb and it still doesn't illuminate and even tried a LED bulb with no luck. Passenger side works fine. I used a multimeter and not getting any power. Looked at the wiring and it looks fine from the cannon plug up until the wire bundle. Any ideas?

 

[Joe Dirt]

Check the loom going into and through the door-to-body junction box

 

[Steeda04SVT]

You mean in that canister looking assembly?

 

[Joe Dirt]

Yep, wires are known to break inside there...

 

[Steeda04SVT]

Having trouble getting the canister looking thing to open, there are 3 clips and I can easly reach the 2 visible ones, but there is a 3rd clip that is on the back side that's faces the door metal and I can't get too. Any ideas???

 

[Steeda04SVT]

Got it fixed, pulled the rubber boot off the bottom of the canister thing in the door hinge and found the wire broken on both ends, so ran a new wire in there to both ends and spliced it and now it works as advertised. Thanks for the heads up to look at that thing in the door hinge.