Paul Breen South Wales

Many thanks for looking for me. I'm sure I had one in my previous puma, but I’m getting old and my memory isn’t what it was 😁

Hi All I’ve got a defender puma 2012. In the front I have two rubber non slip mats on the dash, one under the steering wheel and one under the grab handle was there originally a very small mat in the middle above the clock?? If there was any ideas what it’s called or where I can get one from? I’ve spent hours on line looking without any luck cheers Paul

Hi Many thanks for your reply Yes the light works fine if I depress the switch when it is removed (or short it out). I did notice one thing though, that the switch make then breaks on the ball over travel. I don't live far from Bearmach, I'm going to pop there tomorrow and see if i can get an OEM switch and test that. The new one I bought looked fine but its an aftermarket one and I don't like the sound of the click inside it. If all else fails I'll change it to a proximity sensor, I'll just need to do a little research to find a suitable one. I used an endoscope camera earlier and I can see the actuator and think a decent proximity switch would work. cheers Paul

Hi Mo Many thanks for your prompt reply. The original switch has a ball bearing, so obviously what ever actuates it slides past to depress the switch. What I did was pop the switch to a mate who has a lathe and we turned 1mm of the inside face of the fixing nut so the switch could go in further but this didn't work. ( I read a post where someone had done this and it had worked for them) I'm reluctant to take any more of the nut as there is very little movement on the ball bearing, the part number is LR005160 if you look at a picture of it you will see what I mean. So it looks like my only option is to sort out whatever it is that depresses the ball. (depressing me at the moment 🙂) The problem is that you can't see up inside the hole where the switch is to see what is going on, even tried taking a photo without any luck. So I don't know to go from here Cheers Paul

Hi, I'm an electrician not a mechanic of any sort. I have tried everything now (even took a mm of the inside face of the switch to see if it would with the contact ball going in further, but still no luck) has the gear box got to come out to access the gear selectors to do this modification? Cheer Paul South Wales