Reversing lights on my 525 sport are intermitent working every now and then! Any pointers before I start crawling around under the car?

Cheers Warren

This could be almost anything from a dodgy switch etc etc , but ...... when it happened to me it was the wiring loom on the boot.

If you open your boot, on the left hand "hinge" there is a black cover, remove this and you will see the loom. On mine, it was broken at the back.

It flexes every time you open the boot, I just used some multimeter test lead wire ( very flexible stuff), and spent a couple of hours in the boot with some heatsink and a soldering iron.

The wires were all colour coded, so I just remade all of them.

I am with nigel on this one, it may be the switch but its more than likely the wiring loom feeding the boot lid. I redid all the cables in mine even though they didnt all need doing i put a 4 inch extension on them and this gave them alot more room when opening and closing the boot (so as not to crimp the cables). I would advise using a thicker stranded cable for each one in the hot spot area (wherever they are breaking) this will give them a little more protection against crimping or snapping along with extra strands to snap should it happen again (last longer).

Russ

Cheers guys! you lot saved me from getting my hands dirty once again.

Warren

Well I started in the boot and wiggled the cable with the ign on and the car in reverse, there was no sign of the lights flickering as if it was a dodgy wire! So I crawled underneath unplugged the switch and bridged the connector and they worked. So it was a duff switch in the end.

Warren.

Thanks for the update Warren and glad you got it sorted. I will add the switch issue to my memory of possible answers to others problems.

Russ