Wasted 4 hours of my life today

I have just wasted over 4 hours of my painful existence today as i decided to sort out the headlights on my series 3. After rewiring and re-earthing and fitting a new indicator stalk, nothing worked.
Or rather nothing worked properly: the main beam indicator came on , but i couldnet get the lights to go off, or the main beam to flash or, well you get the picture.
I assumed operator error and stripped down, wire by wire, joint by joint, until as Sherlock Holmes said ( roughly) when you have eliminated the possible , whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
So i slogged up to the barn and rumaged through the cast off boxes and got a broken and bent indicator stalk.
Back to the truck and take off the new stalk, illuminated by a torch and a mobile phone held between my teeth (for it was dark) and after bending the stalk into an elegant U shape, fitted the scrap one.
And?
EVERYTHING BLOOD WELL WORKED!
the New one will go back into its Bloody Blue Box and get sent back from whence it came. When i bought it, it wasn't the cheapest and i didn't ask the Question.
Is it ****part? yes? well no thanks.....
I am Old enough to know better, sad isn't it?

Easily done, new in the box, can't be faulty can it

Testing in china is probably them looking at it just as it goes in the box

The switch is pretty skeletal so you can easily see what is and isn't making contact. It's also fairly easily damaged in transit - the contacts can get bent so they don't/permanently make contact. A few minutes with a set of long nosed pliers can usually sort it out....

oxides said:

The switch is pretty skeletal so you can easily see what is and isn't making contact. It's also fairly easily damaged in transit - the contacts can get bent so they don't/permanently make contact. A few minutes with a set of long nosed pliers can usually sort it out....

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I am sure I can, but why should I?