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Berliner Beer:
Hi Every one, Happy New Year, Hick!

I was drining to work in the dark and my main beam, rear lights and dash lights failed. I move the head light stick to parking lights and all the lights were restored............PHEW not funny with the fog we have had lately!. I have took the steeering colum covers of and ther seems to be a loose contact or wire in the 3 position switch. It is an intermittant fault. Is this switch/stalk an Easy DIY job to replce or should i get an expert with massive labour rates to have a go at it. My Mechanical/elecrical skills are fairly basic along with my took kit!

Cheers

Berliner Beer!

mmgemini:
Yep it's an easy job to replace that switch.

What isn't easy is tthe fallout from the dealer or Lucas for a new switch  :twisted:

What I have recently discovered with a little help and modification an early Range Rover Classic up to 1984 could provide that switch.

Litch:
Depending on the year/model it should be cheap enough (not certain if the light stalk changed through the years like the wiper one). Bought a pair of brand-new ones last year and together they only cost me £25 so no big issues there.
Regards fitting it is very easy but the wheel needs to come off and some people struggle with this whereas with a puller it is a 10-second operation. If you get stuck drop me a line and you can pop across and do it at my place (Cranfield) assuming I can find my home-made puller again (it's around somewhere!).

mmgemini:
Litch
I'm reading that as the headlight switch rather than the dip switch  :lol:

Litch:
See that now, it was the use of the word 'stalk' that made me think he meant the main stalk and not the switch.

Easy and fairly common to replace but depending on model a new switch is around £12 (early) or £35 (late).

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