junior wrote:Waiting for a reply off Lauren as the electrics man on this site !
Now the Fiat 500 had died and the RAC said 4 to 5 hrs, so walked 7 miles home,
(minus one mile when a lady in VW van ran responded to my thumb and took me to the next country road junction. Funny all the country folk `who would do anything for anyone' would not give me a lift)
then RAC rang to say another 6hrs, and so from 3 cars and we are now down to the Sud.
Sorry, bit late chipping in here. I am using a very similar set of stalks, albeit modified a bit
(pre-'77 Rover SD1 stalks, that's indicators on the RH side of the column and wiper on the LH side)
I too have had problems with my main beam contacts, made worse by the low current passing through the contacts due to the use of relays (SD1 originally routed the full headlamp current through the contacts). As RH indicator stalks are getting hard to find I have (1) cleaned the contacts with emery cloth, (2) carefully bent the contacts so that they have similar travel between dip and main beam, and (3) fabricated a small aluminium clamp plate that fixes over the contact leaf with a self tapper. In my case it increases the travel, without it the contacts don't seem to close. Maybe due to wear in the plastic cam attached to the stalk.
I don't suppose any of that helps as I suspect each set of stalks is different. That said, there is quite a lot of read across between BL parts, so you might find a replacement that fits from an SD1, Mini, Marina, TR7... Also, I have noticed that the LP5000 Countach uses the same stalks as me, as well as Alfasud S3 face vents, so you are in good company
Good luck with the fix and sorting out the rest of your fleet!
Lauren