upon cold start in the morning the dash lights, radio, head lights, interior lights flash a few times and then all shut down.
after five minutes of warm up idling everything returns to normal.
had to remove interior lights fuse to get the map and overhead lights to turn off and not kill the battery

 

The map and overhead lights are not mentioned as a problem in the first paragraph.

How are they involved in any of this? Confused

 

sorry I forgot to mention that in the first post. The map and overhead lights stay on while driving and stay on after i turn off engine

 

Well, I don't know anything about a Vue, but perhaps the dimmer switch is shorted out?

 

Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a try 😁

 

Is the dimmer switch on the dashboard or on a switch on the column (stalk)? If it's on the dash and has a roller type switch, perhaps it's rolled all the way forward and that's why those lights stay on.