My daughter turned on one of the interior lights just above the back seats and to my surprise, the light did not turn off after the car was parked for 3 hours (!) (no key in the ignition, car in the garage). Shouldn't the light go off after stopping the car despite the fact that it was manually switched on? This could drain the battery overnight if I hadn't noticed that the light was on ...

I hope I am not missing something basic here ...

 

If you don't close your door completely, the interior lights will go off automatically in about 15 minutes (estimated), but if the interior lights are intentionally turned on they will not go out automatically. A big oversight on Acura's part.

 

I left one of the front lights on all night till late in the afternoon the next day. I have no idea how it was turned on, but when going out that afternoon i saw that the light was on inside my car. Good thing my battery wasn't drained.

 

i don't see how is it an oversight if the light is manually operated.

 

Yep if you manually turn on the light it will stay on. That is exactly how its meant to work. If you turn on a light manually you would get kind of irritated if it turned of while you were in the middle of using it wouldn't you, thats why it stays on. Thats why the odyssey has a switch in the front to turn off all lights (kid proofing).

 

It is an oversight because it would be nice to have the auto-off feature effective even when manually operated, so you don't come out to a dead battery in the morning.

If they can turn off the lights when you don't get the door fully closed, they could turn them off when you manually turned them on, but it would take an extra relay and/or switch and cost a little more money.

They could also have them stay on as long as you were in the car, either because the key was in the ignition, or because of a sensor in the seat that would tell them someone was still in the car.

 

I have had many cars and never had the car turn the light off if it was manually turned on.

 

Its been an "oversight" in every honda vehicle I've owned. That is just how they want it to work. Its not by oversight its by design.

 

I agree that this is indeed an oversight. There is no reason why the light should stay on hours after the car is stopped and no key in the ignition.

It is surprising to build a car intelligent enough to adjust the airflow and temperature taking into consideration the position of the sun, but not intelligent enough to realize that when the car is not running for an hour or so to turn off the light that was obviously left on by mistake.

 

Would have been a nice option to have.

 

It goes without saying that I