2 hours ago, mr_igor said:

In my car, the trunk light is like this (but I’m the second owner), does anyone else have a light like mine or is this an upgrade from the first owner? It is turned on by a button with a red backlight in a circle. Thank you!

I could well be wrong because I don't know but to me unless the model varies in your country to UK your boot light switch looks like to me that it might have been added in by previous owner but other Kamiq owners will know better than I.

@zer081 Is it a 'Rechargeable' battery in the torch in your car? 

11 minutes ago, Ootohere said:

@zer081 Is it a 'Rechargeable' battery in the torch in your car? 

I haven't taken a close enough look at the working of it to be totally honest, but I'll check when I go in there tomorrow.

From 'Owner's Manual' - "The batteries in the light are charged while the engine is running."  "A full charge of the batteries takes about 3 hours."

 

I suppose if the batteries were drained enough and not recharged enough they could be dead but I've always found rechargeable batteries to be very resilient and given full opportunity to recharge as much as they can that they can have more working life particularly for an LED light.

 

I supposed if the removeable light wasn't fully seated in its cradle and making full electric connections the batteries might not charge up but then perhaps the light would fall out of its cradle when the car is driven over humps or on corners.

 

And if batteries were very drained and the car is only used for short journeys and not too frequently there might never be enough charge accumulated to be to equivalent of three hours.

 

I'd just check the light is fully seated and push the on button to see if it lights up and go from there, very quick, easy, lean hands work and hopefully a good result, if not hopefully the batteries will get charged from sufficient driving of the car, again easy, clean hands work, the only type of work that's rewarding to do when working on a car.

 

My drive to work each and every day is around 30mins (each way) so that's not a small journey I'd say.

 

Yesterday also I drove 2 hours to my destination (none stop) and the same home again and that made no change, so I don't think its related to not having enough time to charge.

 

It's either a faulty connection on the car or a faulty torch I think...

 

With that said though, I'll also make sure it's firmly in place ( I think I have pushed it in place already but I'll be 100% sure when I check again tomorrow).

 

1 hour ago, nta16 said:

 

The manual doesn't say so as such but then try pushing the big on/off button 'A' to turn the boot light 'B' on.

 

I did wonder this too - if there's a main switch which is off - one light - both lights.  Or of the torch unit switch has more than one function, e.g. push on/off for the torch, double click, or push and hold for the light in the 'B' area.  I'm just guessing though.

 

 

1 hour ago, Gaz said:

I did wonder this too - if there's a main switch which is off - one light - both lights.  Or of the torch unit switch has more than one function, e.g. push on/off for the torch, double click, or push and hold for the light in the 'B' area.  I'm just guessing though.

I wonder guess the on/off button is as simple as that, yeah, hard to believe with VW, the connection to the Fathership sorts recharging and boot light on off with opening and closing of boot (luggage, storage area, door, lid or whatever they're called by VW at this time).

 

@zer081 just try pushing button 'A' to turn the boot, storage, luggage area light on with the door, lid open if  'B@ lights up then it's a quick, very easy, clean hands resolve.

 

If you are worried the light might stay on then set your phone to record a video to make sure the light goes off when it should or get young person to climb into the area and shut the door, lid down, lock up, and get them to shout if the light is on or off. 😁

 

First post so be gentle. I've just bought a Kamiq SE-L and it does not have a torch, it has a 12V socket.

2 hours ago, Aldfort said:

First post so be gentle. I've just bought a Kamiq SE-L and it does not have a torch, it has a 12V socket.

It depends on the model year.  I bought my SE-L in 2020 - ordered January but delivered June because of Covid - and it came with the torch (left hand side of the boot) and 12 volt socket (right hand side).  However, the torch was discontinued in the next model year (from about Sept 2020), probably to reduce costs or because of supply difficulties or both (Covid again).

In my 2020 SE-L, the boot light has three LEDs in the side which light the boot and two in the end which are the torch part and these don't come on when I open the boot.  If I take the light out and use it as a torch, the torch part turns off automatically when I put the torch back in the holder.