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Raj has a headlight issue.
The light switch has been a bit dodgy for a while now, needing a bit of a twitch to get them on full (that is to say, "Dip"). In the week or two since the garage "fixed" the switch for the MOT, however, it's given up the ghost entirely. Side lights and full beam are fine, it's just the important "driving at night" setting that doesn't work. So I asked the AA about it, and they sent a man, who said it might be the dip relay and I should call a car electrician. The electrician did a bit of cold soldering in the relay (or something) and came to the conclusion that I need to buy a new switch from a breaker's yard or something, and charged me £60 for the benefit of his wisdom.
It's really quite annoying. I obviously can't drive at night without lights, and with the clocks going back tonight it's going to get a lot darker in the evenings. But it's going to take a while to get hold of such a thing and have it fitted by a professional. (The professionals are all closed on Sunday, even if the scrap merchants may or may not be.) I may have to take Monday off, which - what with one thing and another - could have come at a better time. It's so frustrating not to be able to just drive him in somewhere and say "Fix please"; it's such a simple and trivial part of the car that you'd think it would be easier to have replaced. But such a God-damn vital one.
Grrar.
The light switch has been a bit dodgy for a while now, needing a bit of a twitch to get them on full (that is to say, "Dip"). In the week or two since the garage "fixed" the switch for the MOT, however, it's given up the ghost entirely. Side lights and full beam are fine, it's just the important "driving at night" setting that doesn't work. So I asked the AA about it, and they sent a man, who said it might be the dip relay and I should call a car electrician. The electrician did a bit of cold soldering in the relay (or something) and came to the conclusion that I need to buy a new switch from a breaker's yard or something, and charged me £60 for the benefit of his wisdom.
It's really quite annoying. I obviously can't drive at night without lights, and with the clocks going back tonight it's going to get a lot darker in the evenings. But it's going to take a while to get hold of such a thing and have it fitted by a professional. (The professionals are all closed on Sunday, even if the scrap merchants may or may not be.) I may have to take Monday off, which - what with one thing and another - could have come at a better time. It's so frustrating not to be able to just drive him in somewhere and say "Fix please"; it's such a simple and trivial part of the car that you'd think it would be easier to have replaced. But such a God-damn vital one.
Grrar.