(T) light gremlins

i have afew issues with my lights on my 1996 1.1 cinq sporting, i'm guessing bad earths, but they all seem to be in good condition.

when i break my n/s indicator comes on.
when indicating left they work, but when i break they become solid.
when indicating left my sidelights flash with them.
when dipped beam is on the n/s indicators become solid,

the part that gets me is the head lights and indicators are on different switches and different units.
also,my speedo cable has snapped, do i need a speedo for mot??
any help, do i need a new loom, and is it reasonably simple to change?

You can never tell that the earths are OK by looking. Need to undo them, clean them up, coat with vaseline or silicon grease, do em up again. The ones under the bumper are well worth a look.

Other possibilities are wrong bulbs/wrongly fitted bulbs/corroded bulbs or contacts/failed bulbs.

Halfords have a great little glass fibre pen thing which is ideal for cleaning difficult to get at stuff.

A long afternoon with WD40, vaseline, a scotchbite pad and a glass fibre pen should see it sorted.

and more if your and iron man

As in "made in Scotland, from girders"?

A Hot long afternoon with WD40 vaseline

exactly what i thought... a hot long afternoon with vaseline... Need to undo them, clean them up, coat with vaseline or silicon grease, do em up again.

I don't think this has got anything to do with a car!!

Cheers

PD

Shouldn't need to, mum's punto went through 2 MOT's without the speedo working. Tacho must work if theres is one but apparently the speedo doesn't. Seems a bit wierd to me but thats the rule.

Obvioulsy though, speedo is quite handy so would get new one, won't be expensive

cheers everyone,
got the speedo working, it had come lose on the gearbox.

also, which earths are under the bumper (front or back and where?)

Earths for the rear lights. Under the back bumper. There are also more obvious earths in the engine bay.

ok, i spent about 3hours trying 2 sort this today but still no luck.
i cleaned the contact points and put vaseline on them, i did every earth i could see but still no luck.

should i just change the loom over as mine has had a crappy alarm installed and i'm unsure whats what now.

It could be the alarm that's causing the problem. Or crappy fitting.

Swapping the loom is one way to go, quite a bit of work, though, another might be popping into an auto-electrician.

Did you clean the connections on the rear light clusters and the earths under the back bumper?

Still sounds like an earth problem to me.

Cheers

PD

yeah i did all the points i could find including the one behind the bumper.
the ns lights are ok now but the o/s r still bad.
could i just solder new earths to each light?

my brothers a sparky so i'll ask him too have a look, otherwise i will get someone 2 have a look.