A lesson for you all

I noticed a few days ago my reverse light was not working on my td5, so checked the bulb,it was fine. Check the fuse, it was fine so it must be the switch. So ordered new switch and today I stripped out the interior just so I could get the tunnel lid off. Anyway finally got access to the gear box and switch, unplugged it and unbolted it. Attached new one and check it, no light, retried old one still no light.checked to see if there was power getting to the switch, no there is not. Checked fuse again, looks fine. Attached multi meter to fuse and nothing trying a new fuse, hey presto I have reverse light again. So lesson is if the fuse looks ok check it or use another. It is far quicker to do this than waste your morning stripping out the landy just to get to one little switch. Still can't find out why my horn and alarm horn sound after a good rain fall thought

I have seen this quite a bit with cheap blade fuses, they are poorly made, some times coma apart in your hand when removing them., you may also have a little surface corrosion on the female fuse board contacts, contact spray helps.

could be worse. When I got may landy I sent ages working out why the left hand reverse light worked yet the right hand one wouldn't.

I didn't know it was the fog light and the fact that both were aftermarket, were plain lenses and had red and black wires didn't help me!

The problem was you guessed what was wrong, if you get yourself a cheap multimeter you would have found the problem.
Iirc reverse light switches up to 300tdi at least work by earthing so you wouldn't find 12v there. Might be wrong about that though, not fiddled with them for donkies.
Agree about cheap fuses, I got a box of assorted from eBay and the blades were so thin the buggers couldn't hold themselves in.

I learnt the same lesson last week. I lost my dipped beam so I automatically blamed the switch. Bought a new switch, changed it, no joy. Cleaned contacts on the 1-year old dim/main beam stalk and all was fine.

Those -bay fuses are crap, well some of them. I make them hold themselves in by twisting them out of shape a bit. Classic engineering?

I only got the landy in March so I am slowly picking apart all the previous owners doings. Next job is to replace those shocks, they are just shockingly bad. You could not take it of road there is hardly any give in the suspension. The shock are yellow in colour so not original I think so I have ordered a set of genuine one to make it more agreeable.

You just got to cheat the detail in the first place tbh