I figured out this car has a reverse light.
First car I think I personally have owned and driven that did!
Of course, it didn't work, so I went looking.
Bulb bad. No big deal.
I dropped the socket assembly out of the lid, and gee, there are 4 bulbs there!
Two I know are license lights, they work.
The 3rd was backup, replaced the bulb and now it works.
But the 4th bulb......

Points into the boot area from the lid.
Played with it, looking for a switch, nothing.
Traced wires, realized there was no separate boot lamp circuit.

It is plugged into the license lamps, comes on with headlights.
That normal?

No switch?

Well, at least I know how to get it on now!

Thanks.

Submitted by zurdo_1@univis… on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 18:30

well I hope you will have someone outside to open the boot ! Should I keep the phone handy to call you? serious!

you have the same socket? it's a mercury switch / bulb socket combo. Then you're set, it should come on with the lid open, parking lights ON. (they rarely work, they need exercise).
Not shown in any diagram, must have been an after-the-fact, hurry-up-and-do-something kind of situation.

Submitted by woebegone@mind… on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 17:18

Ah!
Maybe there IS a switch built into that socket!
I went over the entire wiring daigram, and it is not shown at all.
Thanks!
I'll close myself in the boot and see if it goes out!