Q: Interior lights of 2005 Passat stopped working, what do I do??

asked by on September 07, 2017

the whole interior of lights are not working. Every exterior light of the car works but not the interior. We saw the CCM and no problems, same with the fuses as well. Everything seems to be in place but are not responding. What could it possibly be??

My car has 133972 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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