How to turn $16000 to $6 in few days of web crawling

From : bryan

Q: ed i bought the car used. it doesnt have a manual. i truly dont see how the manual would help even if i had one though. its not a matter of me pressing the wrong switches. i did make a typo indeed but i dont think you understand the gist of this problem in any case. ill try to elaborate. the problem is that the switches are not working as one would anticipate them to be. the lights all worked fine until a few days ago i point out once again. do you ever drive at night if you do normally youd turn on your headlights and have no interior lights on unless you intentionally turned them on. in my case that is no longer possible. i can only drive with the interior lights off to be clear if i slide the dimmer switch to the extreme left or if i would take out the light bulbs. in order to see my gauges lit for night driving i would need to slide the dimmer switch to the right but if i do that the interior lights come on. is that clearer it may not be but its a strange little problem. i just thought that maybe this was a common or semi-common glitch with this sort of auto. ive checked the doors to see if the light switches are all making contact with the doors and they are. ed h. wrote i dont mean to be a smart ass but have you read the owners manual i think you have a very mis-leading typo in your 3rd paragraph because you state the the interior lights remain off i think you meant on but also say that the interior lights always want to remain on when the headlights are on; a contradiction if took me a few re-readings to figure out. anyway if reading the manual doesnt provide the answer i would look for a selector switch on the interior or dome light. hi everyone. my first post. a few days ago my 4 year old son was playing with some buttons on my old caravan. he got scared when the emergency blinkers started blinking. now im not sure this is not justa coincidence but ever since that incident and i dont know what all else he was pressing or how he was pressing ive had a strange problem with my lighting system. when i put the headlights on and slide the dimmer slider just a tad to the right the interior lights come on and stay on. if i press the switch for the interior lights whilst the headlights are on the headlinghts will shut off but the interior lights will stay on. if i turn the headlights on and push the dimmer to the extreme left i can only get a faint glow from my gauges but the interior lights remain off. in other words the interior lights always want to be on when the headlights are on. the hazard lights work normally it seems. it is very frustrating. i think my only option is to take out the light bulbs in the dome lights for night driving. am i being somewhat clear with my description can anyone adivse many thanks. g .