Back door dashboard light on my 2001 rav 4 stays on when door is cosed

Asked by Joejoe123 Feb 11, 2014 at 12:04 AM about the 2001 Toyota RAV4 Base 4WD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

The back door light on dashboard stays on lathe time which causes the battery to
deplete.

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have you checked the switch on the back door frame? if that is stuck or broken it would show as an open door on the dashboard

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Thanks for answer. I looked all around back door frame but I couldn't find switch. Any chance you might know where it is. Thanks again.

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This link is to a picture(off the internet as an example only) of how the button looks on our RAV http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/PropDuster_album/TOY%20Gu rus/toyota-rav4-ev-official-crop_zpsdf992046.jpg

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