A series 1275 starting problem

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by Chris Roden

The 9v that has been in there all along.


The trouble is that the other road cars have these new fangled automatic headlights that switch on when the light is low and switch off when ignition is off. Looks like she/ we will have to re-learn old habits if we're going to use a 40 year old Mini.

I had an irate customer on the phone saying that since I had Mot'd his Volvo that he had to hold the dip switch in the flash position at night to get a full beam, so I went to his house to find that the main lighting switch was in the off (daylight run)position and worked perfectly when switched on.
He admitted that he had never even knew that it existed as he had never touched it from new, I had obviously left it off during the Mot test
It's a different world !