Cobalt Park lights

redneckred
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:31:12 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

My daughter’s 2009 Cobalt’s park lights are staying on. I woke up this morning to them being on very dim due to them running the battery down. I tried to crank the vehicle and everything went black. I didn’t have enough juice left to even get the dome lights on. I put the battery charger on the battery and notice the front and rear park lights were dimly lit again. I could cycle the headlights from auto, park lights only, to on and back off and the park lights stayed on. After a few hours, I came back to find the battery charger showing a fault code for a bad battery. I just had the batter changed about 1-2 weeks ago. However, I do know that when the battery goes bad, it does affect the electrical system in that the power steering assist gets hard to turn at times. I tried removing the park light fuse under the hood but the lights stayed on. Do I have a bad switch, or is the battery just bad? I am currently trying to charge the battery again off of the vehicle. Is there something else causing the lights to stay on that I am overlooking? Thanks in advance.

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