Reversing Light

[TerraHawk]

Hi,

Quick question.

I've searched the forums but cant find the right answer. My reversing light has stopped working, so I swapped the bulb & it's still no go. I cant find any reference to a fuse that covers that light, does anybody know which it could be?

I was searching on Google & found something that advised that the reversing light shared the inhibitor fuse on an Auto,so I tried starting up with the her in P & she started just fine, started with her D or R & she wont start, so I assume that if they do share that fuse, it's working just fine?

If the fuses are fine then I'm guessing this is wires or the reversing switch on the box? Taking a peep under there last night, i'm guessing that's the furthest one back on the right hand side of the box?

Thanks for any help & advice on this one.

:thumb2

 

[briggie]

have you taken a look in the workshop manual ?

 

[TerraHawk]

have you taken a look in the workshop manual ?

Yeah, still no joy sadly, but thanks anyway. Unless I've missed something:doh

 

[macabethiel]

I would check the bulb connector/wiring for power and then the switch connection with a volt meter.

 

[firebobby]

Give all the connectors and earths a good clean up, I'm sure others have had issues with bad earths in that location. If you have a tow bar, make sure the connections are good and clean to the plug.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

There is a connector just behind the rear light clusters, up under the rear bumper, and it corrodes away inside, so it looks fine at a glance, but if you touch a wire, you often find it just pulls out. On mine, both sides had gone, but to start with you had that annoying, it works some times, but not others, so I wasted a fair while looking for the problem convinced it was somewhere else.

Luckily one time, as I had the rear cluster out yet again, I had left the lights one, and saw how it flickered as I moved the light assembly around. I opened the connector, and it was just a mess of grey and green paste inside. After remaking all the connections, the problem was cured, so I never got as far as looking at the gearbox end. Sorry.

 

[perelaar]

Had one of my brake lights not working. Swapped bulbs, didn't help. In fact the towbar wiring had been spliced by an idi0t, wires simply came apart...

 

[Banshee]

Might be worth checking the connector on the gearbox as well :thumb2

 

[TerraHawk]

There is a connector just behind the rear light clusters, up under the rear bumper, and it corrodes away inside, so it looks fine at a glance, but if you touch a wire, you often find it just pulls out. On mine, both sides had gone, but to start with you had that annoying, it works some times, but not others, so I wasted a fair while looking for the problem convinced it was somewhere else.

Luckily one time, as I had the rear cluster out yet again, I had left the lights one, and saw how it flickered as I moved the light assembly around. I opened the connector, and it was just a mess of grey and green paste inside. After remaking all the connections, the problem was cured, so I never got as far as looking at the gearbox end. Sorry.

Hello again!

Sorry for not posting back here sooner but I had to go off on a job & I simply forgot about this until the issue started again.:doh

The reversing light has stopped now totally. I had the gearbox switch swapped for a new one & nothing changed. So I have got myself a multi-meter to start digging about myself, but I'm learning with electrical...in short I'm crap at it. Can anybody offer advice on exactly where to start with the meter & this issue & how to do it? I'm not sure how to test the connections etc,so any help would be really gratefully received.

Thank you in advance for any help. :thumbs

 

[jims-terrano]

Where abouts are you, might be a member close by to help?

Have you got a towbar fitted? If so where and how are the sockets connected to the vehicle wiring?

If you take the ns boot trim off or pull it away you can get to the wiring loom, better towbar fitters splice into the vehicles wiring there. If you locate the reverse light feed in the loom you can test there.

As said could it be a simple earthing fault, remove bulb and test with your meter between the outer part of bulb socket and a good clean part of car body. Might have to open tailgate to find the clean part of the body such as a bolt.