I did the window test with the pug last week. Just as I was about to pull away, I realised I hadn't tested the reverse lamp.
So, I did. No lights came on.
This evening I got around to getting on with resolving this.
Except that I don't seem to have a reverse light.
The car's 1992 and it looks like it wasn't designed to have one. There are 4 bulbs per cluster. Three of them are behind red plastic. Two are rear lights and one is a brake lamp. The 4th is an indicator behind white plastic. The only other bulbs I have are the fogs built in to the the bumper and the plate lights.
It looks to be designed like that and I'm pretty surprised that a reversing light doesn't appear to be a part of the possibilities.
I don't reverse much so it hadn't featured high on my list of things to do, but I was forced to do some work due to an overheat in stop-start traffic. The radiator sensor didn't kick in until I turned off the car and then turned on the ignition again. There's a tiny coolant leak at the very top of the radiator. Since the weather picked up I'm feeding it a litre per fortnight. The coolant had been spraying the sensor connectors with a fine mist and a bad connection developed with ingress.
I've tried to get at the micro leak with a soldering iron. It'll be three weeks before I'm in any position to lift the radiator due to work half way burning down (google news Crick Fire). Is this a situation where putting some radweld in may actually help or should I just keep on topping up until I can do a real seal or find a 205 in a scrap yard?