Reverse Light Not Working

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

As the title states, the reverse light is not working on my skip. I have done a bit of a search and come up with some useful topics but none quite seem to fit the bill:

http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?s...reverse++switch

Part number 2257 41 £13.75 inc vat from Peugeot or £7 from a motor factors.

 

Basically I started at the back light:

Bulb fine (3 bulbs tested)

12V to the bulb when in reverse

If a buzzer is wired up to connectors, this will sound in reverse.

Connectors all clean to the reverse light

Bulb holder all clean.

 

So onto under the bonnet:

Bridge the connector to the reverse switch and light comes on fine

test switch on a multimeter and works fine

All connectors cleaned and ok

 

So how can I get 12V to the lamp and the bulb not light? Is it something to do with amps?

 

Some more supporting info - I only have 5V to the starter solinoid at the moment and the electric windows are a bit tempramental and that is not the relay. Is this sounding like a fuseboard issue?

[Tesstuff 222]

Weird you having issues with this.

 

My Gentry has no reverse light as standard and we wanted to give it one in the available light positioned in the valance and Mark spent some time on it and didnt succeed.

 

Maybe it is meant to be an unsolved mystery of the 205

 

By the way are you newly a mod? If so , congrats

[NeilGTi85 5]

I've had an issue where my tail light on one side went, spent forever checking connections etc only to find it was the bulb holder causing the problem's. It seemed fine while checking with a m/m aswell.

[P_Monty 2]

If you've got 12V on the bulb holder and the bulbs are O.K. but no light, I'd guess the bulb and holder aren't making proper contact - can you prise the sprung contact up towards the bulb a bit?

[yeti-dj 7]

try a new reverse light would be the next step, either that or check if the earth is any good. I had a tail light that was getting 12volts but still didnt work and it was due to the it not having any earth due to a broken contact inside the light..

[jackherer 543]

You can measure 12v with no load but if there is some high resistance in the circuit (a bad connection, either an earth or the bulb holder) the voltage will drop to much less than 12v as soon as there is a load (the bulb) on it. Try measuring the voltage with the bulb plugged in.

 

In my experience its most likely to be the bulb holder as already mentioned.

[large 33]

When testing in the lamp holder were are you picking your earth up from? If you can try and pick it up off the lamp holder itself.

If you have 12v to the lamp I would have a good look at the earths.

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

Cheers, I'll try and borrow a light from the Yorkshire "stock" of M@tt and Tom!

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

Or set your DVM onto Ohm's and measure the resistance from the light to the switch, And the earth path. Easy!