Hi all,

just recently bought a ford focus 1.6 2009 model,only bought the car last thursday and went to use the car tonight the 1st time since bringing it home,and went to start the car and it had a flat battery.

ive noticed that the lights on the dash will not go out,managed to jump start the car and now the car has been locked for about 8 hours and the dash lights are still lit up,upon reading about this it should normally go out within 30 minutes 1 hour max.

would this be a expensive to fix or were would i stand as ive only had the car less than a week and only drivien it back from the garage.

many thanks andy

hope someone can help me out.

It could possibly be a short in the dash lighting loom or the headlight switch is faulty allowing current to cross connections and keeping the dash illuminated.

As you've just bought it you can take it back to the place you bought it and request a fix (unless it was a private sale and in this case approaching a good auto electrician will be advisable).

Take it back as it can be a faulty timer control module which isnt cheap to fix the fault means the module will not switch off the dash lights or the ecu draining the battery

Hi

thanks for the replies,been having a look around inside the car today and figured out the problem,i had a new mp3 player fitted on saturday ive just replaced it back to standard cd player and the problem with the dashboard has now gone out.

looks like there was something causing it to keep the dashboard light on not sure what but ive replaced the mp3 player that i put in back to standard cd player and its fixed the problem.

thought i would try this before ringing the dealer i got the car from.

thank andy

You'd probably need to swap the battery and ignition live wires on the radios loom adaptor if you fitted it again.

You'd probably need to swap the battery and ignition live wires on the radios loom adaptor if you fitted it again.

thanks stoney,i think il stick to the orginal to avoid any more problems