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1. boot light (score: 1): Author: COLIN THOM <colinthom@shaw.ca>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:19:23 -0700; Hi Listers...is the boot light supposed to come on ONLY when the headlights are turned on? I'm sure mine's correctly wired, but that's what it does. I suppose it makes sense that ya don't need the bo; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00316.html (7,325 bytes)
2. Re: boot light (score: 1): Author: Bill <william.mcintire@wright.edu>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:44:50 -0400; Don't know what year yours is - or if it makes any difference - but my '70 comes on when you open the boot without regard to running lights. Have had it since new, always worked that way...but they; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00318.html (7,808 bytes)
3. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: "Navarrette, Vance" <vance.navarrette@intel.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:48:31 -0700; You are correct. The parking or headlights must be on for the trunk light to function. I agree it makes the trunk light less useful, but Triumph in their collective wisdom decided that was the way i; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00319.html (8,214 bytes)
4. Re: boot light (score: 1): Author: "Robert McBride" <rmcbride@twmi.rr.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:14:16 -0400; On my 76 the boot light doesn't come on I thought it was a bad bulb, never checked it,,,, I'm going up there today so I'll try it with the lights on and see if it works then....Bob; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00321.html (8,302 bytes)
5. Re: boot light (score: 1): Author: John Mitchell <jmitch@snet.net>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:29:18 -0400; Thats the way my 76 TR6 works. Only comes on when the headlights are on. John Mitchell; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00329.html (7,946 bytes)
6. Re: boot light (score: 1): Author: "John Lett" <john@carsystems.ca>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:58:53 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time); My '76 TR6 also works that way as does the light in the Leer cap on the back of my 2003 Dodge Dakota truck!! So perhaps it's not just the British!! John Lett are turned on? I'm sure mine's correctly; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00330.html (8,098 bytes)
7. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:19:53 -0400; Hi Colin: My 72 TR6's boot light does not depend on the headlights. Mark --Original Message-- From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of John Mitchell Sent: Frid; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00331.html (8,632 bytes)
8. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: "Navarrette, Vance" <vance.navarrette@intel.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:58:22 -0700; You are correct; I went back to the wiring diagrams for this - The '69 - '73 TR6s had a trunk light that is wired straight to the hot lead of the battery; i.e. The lights need not be on for the ligh; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00332.html (8,663 bytes)
9. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: "Foster, Stan" <stan.foster@hp.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:05:39 -0400; wired into the same circuit as the glove box and the horns etc and was fed, via the fuse, direct from the battery. In 1974 they changed it for who knows why to get its feed from the sidelights circu; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00333.html (8,229 bytes)
10. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:09:31 -0400; That's a weird setup Vance. Quite often I lift the garage door at night to retrieve something from the car's boot. I don't feel like switching on all the garage lights, or even worse, hunting about i; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00334.html (9,632 bytes)
11. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: emanteno@comcast.net; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:25:22 +0000; -- Original message from Mark Hooper-- I wonder what the Triumph designers were thinking with that change? Good point, Mark. What spend scarce engineering and manufacturing dollars to go backwards? I; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00335.html (8,353 bytes)
12. Re: Boot light (score: 1): Author: tr6taylor@webtv.net (Sally or Dick Taylor); Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:55:30 -0700; Colin--Methinks that Triumph rewired the later cars so the trunk light would only switch on with the parking or headlights because of complaints about dead batteries. If the switch wasn't "opened" wh; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00336.html (8,709 bytes)
13. Re: Boot light (score: 1): Author: Vsnively@aol.com; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:03:46 EDT; My neighbor had several VWs (non-Beetles) with this arrangement. Boot light on only with parking lights or headlights "on". Maybe it's a European thing ?? Regards, Vic Snively '75 TR6 w/AC; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00337.html (7,861 bytes)
14. Re: boot light (score: 1): Author: acekraut11@aol.com; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:31:34 -0400; Do what I did. Add a second light to the opposite side. Dual trunk lights, what an upgrade! And, mine are as others have indicated, on independent of other lights. Aaron Cropley 71 TR6 (Throttle Body; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00338.html (8,590 bytes)
15. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: "Dwayne Cooper" <dc_bruin@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:56:36 -0700; I wonder what the Triumph designers were thinking with that change? <snip> Oddly enough, I had an '86 VW Jetta that suddenly started suffering from a dead battery every morning. Did all of the norma; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00339.html (8,277 bytes)
16. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: "Philip E. Barnes" <peb3@cornell.edu>; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:06:48 -0400; Damn! After all these years of fiddling with mine, trying to get it to work, now you tell me. So why is it that the glove box light will work all the time? Hail Lucas, indeed. -- Phil Barnes (peb3@co; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00343.html (7,803 bytes)
17. Boot Light (score: 1): Author: DaCRANEz@aol.com; Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:49:49 EDT; Thought I may as well weigh in as well. On my '71 the boot light does not need park or headlamps on to function. Musta changed around '73. Mike Crane; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00355.html (7,497 bytes)
18. RE: boot light (score: 1): Author: "R. Ashford Little II" <70TR6@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:05:19 -0400; My '70 needs the headlights on, but I wouldn't trust that to be authentic given the things I've run across so far. R. Ashford Little II '70 TR6 CC54994; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00357.html (7,567 bytes)
19. Re: Boot Light (score: 1): Author: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>; Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:36:54 -0400 (EDT); Hmmm. Something tells me that this is documented in the owners' manual. However, I do not think that the factory changed the light to work without the lights on. rml -- Bob Lang Room N42-140Q | This; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00359.html (8,026 bytes)
20. Re: Boot Light (score: 1): Author: "Philip E. Barnes" <peb3@cornell.edu>; Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:53:31 -0400; In order to put this whole thing to rest, I looked at the schematic for "early" cars. Power for the boot lamp is from the same line as used for the tunnel courtesy lamp and the glove box lamp, ergo t; /html/6pack/2005-07/msg00370.html (7,834 bytes)

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