Thanks Tabetha!

I will certainly try what you suggest! It does not blow straight away which is bloody typical.

To be honest the drivers side rear light had a blown bulb and I replaced this and it blew the fuse a day or two later. So as you say I will double check this. What confused me was a month or two ago the dash lights didnt come on with the sidelights. I switched the lights back off and on again and they came back on. It has done this again once or twice.

It just a car my Mrs uses as she has to park in a the chelmsford police station carpark where are last car got nicked from!!!! Hence we dont want to park anything of value in there. But the downside of cheap shit cars is it just isnt worth paying a professional to look at anything when you could by another car for the same value LOL!

Thanks again for the input.