We are heading off tomorrow for some UK touring so, having hooked up the van, I decided to test the electrics. I should have know better after the last time.

All the lights were fine until I got to perhaps the least used one, the high intensity rear fog light which, according to my son who was monitoring things, 'flickered briefly then died.'

I knew there was a problem when I removed the red plastic cover and water gushed out over my hand. The fitting itself was in a right state with lots of rust showing and white, chalky deposits on the terminals. To my surprise, however, the bulb, the glass of which was partially covered with a white deposit and still had an intact filament, contained about a teaspoonful of cloudy water. The mystery though is how the heck did it get in there?

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In the end I had to dry everything out; file the rust off the bulb contacts; cut off the old terminals on the wires and replace them with new crimped-on connectors after cleaning the blackened wires back to shiny copper with fine wet and dry; fit a new bulb and replace the lamp unit.

The light is now working but what a load of faffing about for a lamp that I might never have occasion to use in anger. Still, better safe than sorry, I suppose.

Fog lamp - like it.

Starting in Devizes then up to Hereford and after that, who knows? Hope to revisit Hadrian's Wall and visit relatives in Yorkshire.

That's about it, John.