Dash binnacle mot failure

[scjimbo]

My car went in for mot yesterday. It failed on a few tell tails in the dash cluster. Can the bulbs be replaced or do I need to get a new cluster?

CIA

[hennabm]

The instrument pod comes out very easy. There may well be a wiki link above showing how it's done.

If not, then drop the under dash tray; then two knurled nuts behind the facia just below the instrument panel need to be undone and the panel removed; then the facia panel screws (two at the top and two on the bottom and finally the pod screws and wires off the back and it's free.

The bulb holders are then at the bottom of the dash cluster.

BTW which tell tails did it fail on?

[scjimbo]

Fog light and right indicator mate. There is a wiki but it doesn't actually say if the bulbs are removable etc. Cheers for your help though.

[Sanchez]

Once you get it out you will see the bulbs twist out.

[magpie]

i'd tell the mot inspector to fook off and go write my ticket out !

where i have my mot done i'm the one sat in the car pressing brakes and turning lights on etc.

he's a coont!

[scjimbo]

i'd tell the mot inspector to fook off and go write my ticket out !

where i have my mot done i'm the one sat in the car pressing brakes and turning lights on etc.

he's a coont!

Agreed mate. Aparently the dick is well known for shit like this. If it wasn't for the fact i get a free retest I would be telling him to fook off. Incidentally anyone have any idea what a front postion indicator light is?

[magpie]

the indicator, bulb wrong colour light showing ,inop or broken lense .

it must work and show only yellow light.

[Speedtouch]

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/inde ... eplacement

[hennabm]

Indicator tell tale inop is a fail and so long as it is the rear fog lamp tell tale, he is correct again.

[scjimbo]

the indicator, bulb wrong colour light showing ,inop or broken lense .

it must work and show only yellow light.

It cant be that. All the indicators work with origional brand new lenses. Could it be the side lights?

[scjimbo]

Front position lamps (parking lamps, standing lamps)[edit source | edit]Nighttime standing-vehicle conspicuity to the front is provided by "front position lamps",[15] known as "parking lamps" or "parking lights" in the US and Canada,[6] and "front sidelights" in British English.[19] They were designed to use little electricity, so they could be left on for periods of time while parking. Despite the UK term, these are not the same as the side marker lights described below. The front position lamps may emit white or amber light in the United States and Canada;[6] elsewhere in the world they must emit only white light.[15] Colloquial city light terminology for front position lamps[20] derives from the practice, formerly adhered to in cities like Moscow, London and Paris, of driving at night in built-up areas using these low-intensity lights rather than headlamps.[21]


Parking lamps on a Soviet 1974 Volga GAZ-24. In Russia, they are called "podfarniki" ("under-headlights") or "gabarite lights".Since the late 1960s, front position lamps have been required to remain illuminated even when the headlamps are on, to maintain the visual signature of a dual-track vehicle to oncoming drivers in the event of headlamp burnout. Front position lamps worldwide produce between 4 and 125 candelas.[6][15][22]

In Germany, the StVZO (Road Traffic Licensing Regulations) calls for a different function also known as parking lamps: With the vehicle's ignition switched off, the operator may activate a low-intensity light at the front (white) and rear (red) on either the left or the right side of the car. This function is used when parking in narrow unlit streets to provide parked-vehicle conspicuity to approaching drivers.[23] This function, which is optional under UN and US regulations, is served passively and without power consumption in the United States by the mandatory side marker retroreflectors.[6]


Found it on good old wikipedia