Club 80-90 Forums

Excellent, thanks that's just the pointer i needed thanks

you can put the bulb over 12v to test it , clean the cap ect. most of the time they are actually working , just very dim. I have exactly this problem at the mo, i thought the bulb had gone but it is indeed just very dim. Any idea why this happens? Is it the bulb? (my 12v replacement sourced from Ma...

http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/shop?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=906&category_id=64&keyword=main+beam Thanks i saw this, but its not the type of bulb i have. I think this is from the older dash type that doesn't have the blue filter built in. Re the dodgy ea...

I've got a 1990 square bumpered t25, and i think the dash is slightly different to the older ones in that there is a blue filter built into the high beam indicator housing. The high beam light stopped working, so i picked up a 12v miniature filament lamp from maplin thinking it would do. The wire en...

Cheers for your frankness. I guess I'll be taking the inside of the van out sooner rather than later then

Yeah thanks, definitely loads of useful stuff on the forums. What i really wanted was clarification of whether seam rust really does "always" start from the inside of the van as the threads i read have suggested. I'm sure they often (usually) do, but it just didnt seem that way on my van a...

Update - seems ok, a mate "in the know" has looked at reckons its from outside, so I'm gonna leave taking the interior out til winter and settle for rubbing a load of wax in the seams to keep the weather out for now i think

I've recently bought a '90 holdsworth that is generally in superb condition. However when i look closely at the panel seams i can see that the sealant is slightly cracked and in places there are traces of orange where there's obviously a bit of rust underneath. There is absolutely no sign of bubblin...