Got the part, fitted in and screwed tight - blind mode. All working again. Cheers 🙏

Got it, one wire was cut. Had to to take the tunnel out to manage to see something and reach it.

Thanks for the links, it looks like a right bummer which I pretty much suspected. But I'm pretty sure it is the switch that is dodgy so better dig it out, worth the try as can't take it to MOT with this default. Will let you know how it goes, thanks again.

Dear Defenderers, My reverse light switch has been dead for months, I've been looking at the upfront fuse and it's fine, and tested the bulb and electrical feed, I got no power at all. I've been looking for the switch below the front middle seat, but I can't find it... Could you please help...

After much fiddling, electrical tests, earth points checking, cleaning and all. It ended up being the light relay clicking but not doing its job. I also found out how much custom made electrical has been made (stationary heater, inverter, towing pulley, top light beams, rear light beam and much...

Not much luck with that one I'm afraid @sierrafery

I found the dashboard earth which seems fine, not sure where to look for the others.

Defender it is. Sorry about that.

TD5. 2005.

Hi everybody, I had intermittent failures with the headlight during summer, scared me the first time it happened while driving in the mountains and plain dark. But hopefully full beam has always been working, playing with the light switch usually proved something was wrong as I was also loosing...

The dodgy pulley eventually snapped yesterday... Hopefully only a few km away from home. Belt went nuts and ended teared apart. Ordered parts yesterday, got delivered today. All fixed. Didn't remove the fan (couldn't anyway). Sounds smooth again :)

Thank you so much for your kind help. Will keep you posted.

Sorry about that. It is now fully accessible.

Here is an extra video where the noise is more flagrant. Feels like belt and pulleys renewal is required. What do you think?

After investigating properly (sorry I didn't even bother opening the bonnet initially as I felt so confident about the state of the engine, and it was pretty late in the evening), it appears the noise comes around the power steering pump. But it's pretty hard to locate with precision.

I think your diagnostic is correct. Definitely a gearbox bearing. Got to search which one now, I guess I should lift the whole vehicle to find out where the noise comes from exactly.

Greetings everybody, Our TD5 is making this weird noise, it kind of used to always be there, very discrete, but it now got super loud, and gets noisier the faster I rev. If I disengage the clutch, it disappears instantly, which obviously drives me thinking it is something related to the...

Now I understand the mechanics of it at least... At a cost!!! And why reversing back till the position where you engaged Lock could catch all the plays back and allow you to Unlock. We drove quite a fair bit with Lock engaged on tarmac before all hell broke loose (~8km... :mad:). Thank you for...

I had to try... Was stupid I admit... No straight access to a field here I'm afraid, but if tomorrow's weather is nice, I'll reach the mountains where there are some proper tracks, the land is pretty dry those days though...

Hi Everybody. I hope you're all doing great and so are your Landies! Got the parts (at last!), Brexit + Covid, took 3 bloody weeks. Took the opportunity to change all seals, greased bearings properly on left CV joint as it was in such a mess. Didn't take pictures though... But looks pretty...