Failed mot on nearside headlight

[Smiffo]

All is not lost - you now have nice clean earth points!! 

Be assured, there will be people reading this and will recall a scenario they talked themselves into a root cause of an issue, that turned out to be something simple and obvious. ( I know I've done it. )

Pencil it in as the pressure from the deadline for your hols, then go enjoy the trip 

[Bryce]

Still reckon its a duff wire in the bulb connector.

by swapping the whole headlight would I not have ruled that out? I thought the only problem left would be the bulbs as that's the only difference between the two?

If it does turn out to be the bulbs at least I now know that crowns exist and that rust hasn't eaten away the front of the van yet!

Hopefully one day I can be the person answering questions rather than asking

[maxstu]

True. But you didnt tell whether initial good lamp failed or not when plugged into other side.
Anyhow. Happy hols...and get a set of bulbs from Halfords. Are they H4's? Or the goldfish bowl style ones?

[Bryce]

They are the h4 ones, going to swap all the bulbs while I'm there and see if I can get some brighter ones

[multisi]

I have a rhd round headlight if you need it.

[Bryce]

Well happy ending all lights working and got the retest in a hour, knowing my luck it will conk out again on the drive there!

Thanks for all the help