Boot light woes

Feb 07, 2006 8 Replies
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Hello,



This is about a 2001 vw golf.



Not the most urgent job in the world that needs doing but something that annoys me. My boot light is not working. Never noticed it before. I took the light fitting off looked at it, there was some rusty looking colour on quite a lot of it, cleaned it all off with a little wire brush type thingy, went down to halfords bought a new bulb put it in and no joy. I took it down to GSF and asked if they had any idea and they couldn't help, was quite rude actually but no matter.



So I was wondering if anyone could shed a little light on it *what an auwful pun ... shame on me :grin:*



what would my next port of call be ? (bearing in mind I have 2 left hands)



cheers


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In news:dsaqrr$ptv$ snipped-for-privacy@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk, souls wrote something quite bizarre, possibly in an effort to confuddle the world. It went like so;

Rust??, it's a Golf.....

*Paging Steve H of VAG*

Dunno, but I imagine the Golf probably uses a mercury switch in the bootlid somewhere, if that helps.

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It's only four years old - hardly a shed.

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I've got vague recollections of sorting one of these.

From memory, some of the electrical connectors fell apart, and a new boot loom had to be fitted. And I'm sure the switch is part of the lock mechanism.

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It was a caramel \ brownish colour not all over the metal bits but on the bit where the lights element touches it and some of the other bits. Best I can describe it.

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lol its sometimes feels like a shed being a bit bulky looking.

.... not sure what else to check on it ...

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Scratching beneath the surface its getting more complicated ... I was hoping it was just a new bulb required.

I might need to buy myself a multi-meter perhaps? to check there is power coming to the light maybe ? never used one but I gather this would be a logical move. I think argos sell them.

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