Been a while, unfortunately I have been really busy with work and didnt really get a chance to mess around with my old cars much.
The light switch in my 305 wagon seems to have developed a problem. Everything works except high-beam flash. It switches from low beam to high beam OK, but if you try to flash the high beam with no lights on, it almost always doesn't work.
I took the switch apart, and obviously since its from the era of mechanical switches, before they started using digital control, and also it pretty much controls all the light functions of the car, its one complicated switch!
I think the reason the flasher does not work is because the plastic cam that controls the high-low switch and also the flash is physically just worn out from use, the lobe that's supposed to control this particular function is no longer tall enough to do its job.
My switch looks like this. These photos do NOT include the metal plate/cradle thing which clips around the whole unit, I have already removed it.
So, I am looking for a replacement switch I guess. Problem is, the correct switch seems to be really hard to find. Even PugCit themselves can't find it, neither in the US not in Europe.
However, a started looking on ebay UK (where ALL the cool stuff always shows up) and I noticed that there are several other PugCit vehicles of the era which have similar looking switches, the only difference being the cosmetic style of the stalk itself.
For exmaple, C15:
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205:
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So, am I right in assuming that the actual switch module itself is identical in quiet a lot of vehicles with only one exception, the fog lamp. Mine has no fog lamp, some have one, some have both)? And the only difference is the stalk?
So assuming that I don't mind driving around in a car with mis-matched stalk, I could just fit a 309/205/C15 switch?
Of course, in a perfect world, I would find a genuine 305 switch, but my car has the wrong wiring loom for the model, is all bashed up, has rope wrapped around the bumper, and looks like a complete piece of junk, so I think having mis-matching stalks would not hurt it one tiny bit.
Any ideas anybody?
