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Defender electrics problem


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Hi there hoping someone can offer a solution, the headlights and rear lights on my 130 have stopped, i have checked all the fuses (normally this happens with badly wired tailboards) and they are all ok, i have noticed that recently

the lights come on slowly almost like those long life ones you buy these days in the house. The other day I put a new bulb in a headlight as the mainbeam in that side had gone and it still did not work, then this, are they linked? I think perhaps it is a poor earth, but where is the earth?. Thanks in advance, Mick

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Two thoughts:

 

1) As Big Bolt says, water can get down the back of the fuse box and corrode everything. Quite often I have to "wiggle" the fuses to get a good contact, though this is usually for stuff that is rarely used (fog lights etc).

 

2) The earth for the headlight is up inside the wing. Should be an easy job, but it is a brute because all the parts are totally corroded. Simplest course of action is to get the earth wire and bolt it firmly to something accessible and out of the muck.

 

Dunno about the switch, mine is pretty new as my children broke the original one climbing on the steering wheel when they were small(er).

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