Niece presented my with her Micra this weekend. Said she kept getting flashed at from behind and could I check the tyres. They were OK so further questions were asked. MOT tester had let non working offside tail lamp and number plate lamp slide with "you need an auto electrician".
Inspection shows no power to them. Some one has butchered the number plate lamp connector. There is blue insulation tape on earth splice but it's OK. The foam seal is missing from the tail lamp. Shorting the tail lamp to the indicator on loom plug makes the number plate lamp flash so wherever it's splice is to the cluster loom it's OK.
Offside, nearside and number plate all have different colour feed wires.
I'm sure I've seen others with same issue. So where does the offside tail lamp wire break?