Well, im gettin totally pissed off with this! lol

Got the car booked in for MOT on friday, so as car has been sat a while took battery off to charge, reconnected it today.

Basically, I can get all rear lights working except brakes, I did have the brakes working at one point, but not the fogs (I think it was the fogs :S), ive took both of the connectors off, sprayed em with WD40 and scrubed them to get rid of surface rust, also done the same with the bulbs.

Tried swapping bulbs over from one cluster to other etc... and all bulbs work, also tried swapping clusters over.

The rear drivers side light is a bit intermittent and only seems to stay on when I have the cluster in certain positions, luckily it appears to stay on when it is in place. I have also noticed that the front drivers side (same side as rear) light appears to be quite sensitive - it will come on and off sometimes, I have tried reconnecting the adaptor several times but it just seems a bit hit & miss.

Someone said it might be a bad earth, but im not sure how I test / solve this.

Does anybody have any suggestions as I need to get it sorted for the MOT.

Thanks!!

 

Rear bulb holders, save yourself grief and replace them for new ones (Ł30 on ebay usually)

 

as above. have seen this problem before many times.

 

Yeah totally agree with the replacement of bulb holders, very poor design.

 

You could also get new plugs from Fords. If they are still available I would replace these as well - then it should work perfectly with the new bulb holders.

 

lost my lights just hitting 135 at night :O... scary buzz had to use my hazzards to see so i wudn kill myself..then discovered my whole fuse booard had to be re done so jus re wired the whole car......LESSON LEARNED= check over everythin when u buy a car before you try get top speed out of it !!

 

lol that would be a bit scary like

abit like when my bonnet came up @ 100+