Hi, my first time posting a question, hopefully someone might be able to help please.
I have a Mk6 Transit with the 6 speed RWD gearbox. For a while I've had issues with intermittent reversing light operation. When they finally stopped working altogether I sourced a replacement switch and verified that the lights worked when the switch was operated manually. As an aside, it turns out there are two different switches with different mounting threads which are listed by the parts suppliers for this vehicle and of course I got the wrong one first time. Anyway, it turns out that my reversing lights still don't work, or only very rarely. All I can assume is that whatever actuates the switch inside the gearbox is not doing so correctly.
Has anyone else come up against this issue? My current thought is to buy another switch, stick it in a lathe and extend the thread so that it screws deeper into the gearbox in the hope that will cure it. Failing that I'll be fitting a manual switch on the dashboard instead!