Lights come on when it is -30 and kills battery

[clem1118]

We purchased our Vibe in 2003 and have had good luck except every winter at acertain temp on come the lights. Our local dealer replaces some $200 part but to no avail works fine till the next time any advice other then a heated garage Thanks

[joatmon]

Sounds like you have two problems, first it gets freakishly cold where you live and second sounds like the problem in http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id ... ?id=2686In the second one pmm said :Quote, originally posted by pmh013 »I read a bunch of threads on this ... can't remember which sites though. The workaround is to activate your brites before you turn the car off. What's happening is the cold is making the headlights come on, even though all the switches are off. By activating the brites, it's a different circuit, so the cold weather can't affect the problem circuit.unfortunately, threads on matrixvibe.net are gone forever, and over at MO, they periodically rename threads so old links no longer work, but worse is that inactive topics get pruned into oblivion, so that useful info on that site may have been thrown away also.