Reversing lights on a Disco Tdi 200 1993

[thebiglad]

Hi all, after ongoing trouble with the reversing lights (RL) on my wife's Tdi I've decided to sort them out, once & for all.

The story so far:

The lights stopped worked and I found that the RL switch was finished, so I ordered and installed a new switch. All was well for a while then they ceased to function - adjusted the switch and all was good - for a while. Now they are no longer working and I've had enough of this silly little but irritating fault.

So my plan is to replace the LR switch with a manual illuminated one and install it on the elec windows control panel. Anyone got any ideas where I might get such a thing? Ideally something of a rocker switch style.

Once the existing LR gearbox switch has been replaced with the above, I then plan to modify the RL's at the back, a little. I reckon that if I take out one of the RL bulbs and use it's elec feed I can then run a rear gutter-mounted worklight to improve rearward vision.

Any comments on this??

Cheers in advance

Dave

[Richard Mills]

Hi There,

The reversing lights on my 300tdi are just as useless. The new switch cured them for a couple of days only. I am also thinking of fitting a manual switch, and your idea of where to put it is good.

My local supplier "Maplin Electronics " should be able to provide the switch.

If the switch is like a mains illuminated type, they supply a LED with internal resistor to work off 12 volts, so a small engineering job may be required. I know they also have small 12 volt lamps that will swap with the neon quite well.

This is a task for tomorrow, if the weather is ok.

[karlo]

I have a couple of these in mine

Available from most motorist centres