Ambient Lighting - Weak and now gone!

[joshgregory10]

Just picked up a '12 Fusion SEL fully loaded and now experiencing ambient lighting issues.

 

This car was involved in minor flood issues (to the floorboards) but since has been restored.

 

My issue that the ambient lighting system was originally only displaying a few colors and they were all different (ex. red on one light and white on another light) and this would change after pressing the button.

 

Now, there is NO lights (cupholder or anywhere in the cabin).

 

What could be causing the ambient lights to work sporadically and now not at all? Is this issue repairable by myself?

 

Note: I found an "Ambient lighting control module" on eBay, which was attached to under one of the cupholders when I took apart my center console. Could this be the issue, or something with the wiring?

 

Any suggestions much appreciated!

[eGuru]

All the LED's are driven in parallel from the ambient lighting control module. Since you initially had white (all 3 colours driven) at one location and different colours at the same time at the other locations, I would suspect a connector corrosion issue.

[kauaikarl]

I just bought a used 2012 fusion SEL. When I cycle the ambient lighting switch under the climate controls, nothing happens. I did this with the car running and headlights on. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this problem? I looked on-line for my car's wiring diagram for ambient lighting and couldn't find anything usefull

 

Thanks

[eGuru]

Did you adjust the ambient dimmer switch?

[drolds1]

Topic closed. We have two essentially duplicate threads going.