Hi. I'm hoping this might help another Navara owner, and do a bit to repay the excellent help and advice I've had from this forum. Apologies if it's already been covered.
I had a front indication out. I tried swapping the bulb for the (working) opposite side. No difference. So I cleaned the visible contacts and it worked! For 2 days 😣
So multimeter time. I had continuity between the pins on the loom socket and the contacts that touch the bulb. I had volts across the loom plug, but it would only work for a few seconds. And the bulb looked dim compared to the other side.
I figured the bulb holder was duff, so it didn't matter if I broke it more.
Anyway, I discovered that if you unclip and extract the plastic inner, you can gently pull the contacts out with long nosed pliers.
There are pins on the bottom of the contacts that must slot into "something" inside the bulb holder. One was showing signs of spark burning (probably be wrong name).
I nicked my partner's nail emery board thing (again, probably be wrong name), scrubbed both pins clean, put it back together and 5 days on it's working fine. And the bulb is nice and bright. The truck is a 2012 D40 V6 - just in case the design has changed on later models.
Sorry If this is common knowledge. I did know the contacts pulled out so readily.
Separate, totally unrelated, happy story. My partner's brother is a bit Del Boy trader. Last week he bought a job lot in a garage closing sale. One of the items was an unused Armadillo aluminium roll top cover - still in the packaging. I phoned the company that was, or maybe bought out, Armadillo. A very helpful man in tech support took the part number, serial number and order number. Then a while later after going through an archive database, phoned back and confirmed it was made in 2012 for a D40 and sold for £1200 + vat. Excellent help from him with no prospect of a sale, and really the reason for telling this. A very helpful man.
£100 later it's in my garage waiting for me to fit it.
I had a front indication out. I tried swapping the bulb for the (working) opposite side. No difference. So I cleaned the visible contacts and it worked! For 2 days 😣
So multimeter time. I had continuity between the pins on the loom socket and the contacts that touch the bulb. I had volts across the loom plug, but it would only work for a few seconds. And the bulb looked dim compared to the other side.
I figured the bulb holder was duff, so it didn't matter if I broke it more.
Anyway, I discovered that if you unclip and extract the plastic inner, you can gently pull the contacts out with long nosed pliers.
There are pins on the bottom of the contacts that must slot into "something" inside the bulb holder. One was showing signs of spark burning (probably be wrong name).
I nicked my partner's nail emery board thing (again, probably be wrong name), scrubbed both pins clean, put it back together and 5 days on it's working fine. And the bulb is nice and bright. The truck is a 2012 D40 V6 - just in case the design has changed on later models.
Sorry If this is common knowledge. I did know the contacts pulled out so readily.
Separate, totally unrelated, happy story. My partner's brother is a bit Del Boy trader. Last week he bought a job lot in a garage closing sale. One of the items was an unused Armadillo aluminium roll top cover - still in the packaging. I phoned the company that was, or maybe bought out, Armadillo. A very helpful man in tech support took the part number, serial number and order number. Then a while later after going through an archive database, phoned back and confirmed it was made in 2012 for a D40 and sold for £1200 + vat. Excellent help from him with no prospect of a sale, and really the reason for telling this. A very helpful man.
£100 later it's in my garage waiting for me to fit it.
