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Battery Run Down Protection/Inadvertent Power

The Body Control Module (BCM) controls the lighting system through circuits that enable the park lamps, head lamps and fog lamps as well as the interior lamps. The BCM opens these enabling circuits 20 minutes after the ignition switch is turned OFF with no subsequent lamp switch activity. If the ignition switch is turned to any position other than OFF, or if a lamp switch is activated, during this 20-minute period, the timer will reset for another 20 minutes.