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Ah, good idea. *heads back to the man cave in search of strimmer cord*

Phil T, that's as far as I've got. I just need to run the cables to the battery. But now the car is all built up its a pain to route them the same way. I might have another go later.

A plumbers box spanner: https://www.screwfix.com/p/faithfull-tap-backnut-spanner-with-tommy-bar-27mm-32mm/844rh or a Tap Back nut thing: https://www.toolstation.com/tap-backnut-tap-connector-set/p43610

BigCol, so how did you connect the wires to the battery then ? Did you drill a hole in the bulkhead, or route them through the tunnel where the rest of the wires go ? I looked at the tunnel wires and the seems to be loads of them and not much space. Johnathan, as for USB sockets, I dont own anything that needs one. If my passenger needs a recharge they can use a USB adapter in the existing socket. The C-Tek wiring comes with an inline fuse, so its all sorted.

I'm fitting a Ctek charger point / battery monitor to my fuse box cover, so I can just plug in the Ctek without having to take the bonnet off and connect it to the battery. It will all be hard wired in and I can glance at the red/orang/green indicator lights to see if it needs a charge. But now I need to connect the charger point from the fuse box cover to the battery and wondered if anyone has any suggestions as to where to drill through the bulkhead. I don't think its worth trying to feed the wires along the loom which goes in the tunnel, it seems easier to go through the bulk head. Anyone done something similar ?

I've also bought some nice LED headlights, perhaps I should just throw money at the problem and get someone to fit them and fix the problem. While its still daylight I want to spend my time driving, not fiddling 🙂 Looking at the weather forecast however, I may as well fiddle tonight and tomorrow night.

Its the 620 style dash, not the push out plastic things. They are the fancy metal toggle ones. I think you can unscrew the ring and push them into the dash. I will have a look later.

Yeah, I suppose as the dip, main and dash lights are all on separate fuses its probably a switch issue. The flasher working means there is power to the lights, so its not an issue with me wiring up the lights that has failed. I will sit in the car upside down with my head under the dash and fiddle with the switches tonight. On a separate thought - given its not likely to be a build issue, would this not be a warranty issue and I can just get Caterham to fix it for me ? That would save time and effort on my part. Id rather now be thrashing the tyres off it not fiddling with it in the garage.

Thanks for the link, I will go through it and hopefully it will shed some light on my problem 🙂

Its all the headlights, which now looking at the owners handbook fuse instructions, I see is on two different circuits. So I will have a fiddle around the back of the switch first. I can also have a look for the annoying indicator buzzer and tape it up while Im ferreting about behind the dash. In the meantime I need to update my insurance, there is no way Im going to do just 2000 miles a year. I've done 200 already today and its only 3pm. I've had the car for two weekends and put 800 miles on it 🙂

We stayed at the hotel at the bottom - absolutely loved it. Especially after closing time when you have the place to yourself.

First post build problem 🙂 My headlights dont work any more. The dash lights dont work either. But the headlight flasher and indicators work. So I imagine its a fuse right ? Given both lights (main and dipped) stopped and the flasher, brake lights and indicators all work. So its probably not my dodgy wiring. But when I pulled all the fuses out, non seemed to be broken. Do I need to look harder ? Anyone got a map of which fuse does what, so I can stick it inside the fuse box for next time. Is it a relay ? Am I destined to just use the car in the daylight now 🙂 Anyway, the sun is out so Im heading for a 1000 miles in the first week !

Did they let you in there for free ?

That's great.

Ah, just above Nice, nice road 🙂 I will add it to my route I'm planning in October.