AndyPandy

Obviously a reply from a Member who would be incapable of carrying out this operation.I cannot understand why this member insists on answering everybodies post even when he does not have a sensible solution. Perhaps he doesn't have any friends,I wonder why!

It is possible to carefully remove the cable contacts from the plastic housing,and change them over.Can be done with a large needle put in the correct place to collapse the contact tab.I would make a note somewhere in the car handbook that you have done this. I am against cutting the loom of the car unless a wire in the loom goes faulty.

If you have to replace handbrake cable,dont fit pattern ones.I found this to my cost,I bought pattern ones ,and they continually stretch because the inner cables is a smaller diameter.This mean't I had to continually adjust the handbrake lever to take out the stretch!

I thought most batteries sold now are of the sealed type ,i.e no access to the inside liquid, and the battery could be put in any position without loss of fluid.I could be wrong.Perhaps there are still manufactures making cheap versions with the 6 screw caps to add distilled water?Are you sure there isn't a small crack in the battery casing?

This may help anybody who has problems with the interior light not coming on,when one of the front doors are opened. My mk1 has manual door locking.I noticed the passenger door stopped turning the interior light on when opened. I checked the circuit, and decided to take the door lock out,because it seemed the microswitch was faulty. A triple square 8mm spline bit( 12 tips) is needed to remove the two lock holding bolts. It turned out the switch plunger was sticking in because of old oil and dirt. The reason I am posting this is no mention on Briskoda,or the internet,the fact that the switch cannot be changed, complete lock replacement seemed the only solution .The microswitch,and the 2 pin socket are directly connected. I wrongly assumed that a burgess type microswitch with or without the red and blue wires could be used to replace the faulty switch. To sum up I managed to clean the plunger with switch cleaner(not WD40),and it worked.