I have just finished wiring in my rear footwell lighting that I took out of my focus. I was going to wire the new looms straight into my existing front footwell lighting to keep the new wiring as short as possible.

On inspection the wiring to the front footwell lighting is rather inaccessable due to the stupid locations ford decided to place the bulb holders compared to on the focus. I'm in quite a lot of pain at the moment as I've some how pulled/sprained my right shoulder/arm/neck/shoulderblade area and I cant bend or twist very well right now so I didn't want to be awkwardly faffing about in the footwells too long or removing any more panels than necessary to try and locate the bulb holder wiring to tap into it.

So I decided to extend the new looms about 3 times their length, run the wire around the door seal, up to and around the A pillar and into the roof lining. Removed the front courtesy light, pulled the new loom through and spliced the earth into the submarine lighting earth and the live into the main courtesy light live. Assuming that it would now run off the same timer as my courtesy light and so that the rear footwell lighting would now come on/go off with the front footwell lighting and front/rear courtest lights.

The whole process went rather well considering the amount of pain I'm in apart from almost slicing off my middle finger after ever so slightly slipping with a brand new stanley fatmax blade.

However, as per the title of this thread I've noticed a problem. The rear footwell lighting for some reason isn't on the timer with the rest of the lights and is infact live the whole time. Not a major problem as I know they should cut off after about 10minutes of locking the car or being contstantly on, but it means while driving around they are going to be staying on which isnt good.

Can anyone advise on how to rectify this and the cause of why its happening? Have I wired it in wrong somewhere?

I think the rears have probably been wired onto the permalive?

Disconnect the rears from the wiring, and just tap the wiring against the front circuit that works and if that succeeds as I expect it will, then just wrap the live to this connection.

what is the permalive?

Permanent live feed.

Yeah sorry matey it's more a term I use ad opposed to a technical team used by everyone lol

I know the term.......

I'm asking what feed is the permalive. which wire

Not sure will see if I can check the Haynes when I get gome