Twilight sentinel 93 SSEi

[jjm01o]

Anyone know where the twilight sentinel sensor is located ? Mine has quit working and no doubt needs replaced.

[randman1]

It's the sensor on the top of the dash on the far left side. It's flat, black and has a small "eye" in the middle. If you have Electronic Climate Control, there is also a solar sensor in the middle of the dash. This is a little dome looking thing and has nothing to do with the sentinel.

Mine doesn't work either so I took a quick look at the manual. There was two pages of diagrams. Since I didn't have much time, I put it off. That was a month ago and I still haven't had time to dig into the car.

One of these days... maybe

[jjm01o]

I've been replacing sensors like crazy lately. Right now I'm not sure if I want to be bothered with it. The other factor I wonder about is cost. Oh well.

[randman1]

The sentinel sensors can be tested easy enough with a multimeter. It is just a variable resistor depending on how much light it sees. If yours tested to be bad, you could replace it with a junk yard one for $5 I bet. Bring the multimeter to the junk yard so you don't but a bad one.

there's a lot more to the circuit than just that sensor though and they don't go bad too often. It might just be partially unplugged. that's easy to check too.