ciderman
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I have just wasted over 4 hours of my painful existence today as i decided to sort out the headlights on my series 3. After rewiring and re-earthing and fitting a new indicator stalk, nothing worked.
Or rather nothing worked properly: the main beam indicator came on , but i couldnet get the lights to go off, or the main beam to flash or, well you get the picture.
I assumed operator error and stripped down, wire by wire, joint by joint, until as Sherlock Holmes said ( roughly) when you have eliminated the possible , whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
So i slogged up to the barn and rumaged through the cast off boxes and got a broken and bent indicator stalk.
Back to the truck and take off the new stalk, illuminated by a torch and a mobile phone held between my teeth (for it was dark) and after bending the stalk into an elegant U shape, fitted the scrap one.
And?
EVERYTHING BLOOD WELL WORKED!
the New one will go back into its Bloody Blue Box and get sent back from whence it came. When i bought it, it wasn't the cheapest and i didn't ask the Question.
Is it ****part? yes? well no thanks.....
I am Old enough to know better, sad isn't it?
Or rather nothing worked properly: the main beam indicator came on , but i couldnet get the lights to go off, or the main beam to flash or, well you get the picture.
I assumed operator error and stripped down, wire by wire, joint by joint, until as Sherlock Holmes said ( roughly) when you have eliminated the possible , whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
So i slogged up to the barn and rumaged through the cast off boxes and got a broken and bent indicator stalk.
Back to the truck and take off the new stalk, illuminated by a torch and a mobile phone held between my teeth (for it was dark) and after bending the stalk into an elegant U shape, fitted the scrap one.
And?
EVERYTHING BLOOD WELL WORKED!
the New one will go back into its Bloody Blue Box and get sent back from whence it came. When i bought it, it wasn't the cheapest and i didn't ask the Question.
Is it ****part? yes? well no thanks.....
I am Old enough to know better, sad isn't it?
Exactly the same the last one I fitted.....spent fooking ages tweeking the copper contacts trying to get the thing to work...
