Lower Glove Box Light "ON"

[xevious]

Oh sure, removing the bulb when you can see what you're doing is the easy part. But replacing it in the dark is a little more difficult. :-D

I'm tellin' ya - he never said he wanted to be able to turn it ON again!

:-D

[DanMan32]

And the weird thing is, the wiring diagram shows a switch integrated into the lamp assembly!

[jeromep]

The "blub" is an LED. Therefore this is not an issue with regard to either energy use or heat. I think it was yet another brilliant engineering feat. Let's see, use a conventional switch, which many years down the road may stick or break entirely, with a conventional incandescent light which can burn out, over and over and over again, or use a simple LED, which has a very low energy draw and omit the cost and engineering related to the switch and make life simple for everyone that uses it.

With that logic, I choose the LED.

This car continues to amaze me.

[twdusa]

JEROMEP, I must say that I agree completely with your analysis. I started this thread with the original question, "WHY" and your analysis of this particular situation makes order out of "just against my grain". Thank you very much for your post.

I feel very comfortable now with my "intelligent LED light in the glove box" as I too believe it not to be a flaw, but rather an intelligent Toyota answer for the application!

[ltu1542hvy]

I just noticed this on my car this evening as well and had never noticed it before. On two of my previous cars the light would stay on due to a faulty switch. Is what you all are saying that the Prius does not have a switch to turn off the glovebox light, and the light leaking out from around the edges of the glovebox door is a "feature" and not a bug?

- Bill

[Tideland Prius]

Yep, it's always on when your headlights are on. It doesn't shut off when you close the glovebox.

[aussie]

I read somwhere that an LED can last for 100000 hours, thats about 10 or 11 years on

[DanMan32]

Sure, 11 years if you leave the lights on 24x7x52, otherwise you could get about 100 years if it really does last 100K hours

[tag]

Glad I was able to find this thread. I just noticed this glovebox light phenomenon this evening....for the first time.

As it turns out, my lower glovebox is pretty loaded with stuff and merely repositioning a couple of items (small books) and closing the door firmly resulted in the light going out!

So NOW I'm also left wondering whether I fixed a bug or disabled a feature.

[ltu1542hvy]

I discovered something similar with mine. If I have the black vinyl "portfolio" that contains the collection of manuals on top, it does not reflect the light and I do not see any light leaking out around the edges, however if I have a white sheet of paper on top, which does reflect the light, I do see it. So, if you do see the red light leaking out, try rearranging the contents of the glove box so that something in a color that does not readily reflect light is on top, and that will take care of it.