Volvo Rear position lamps

I tested a Volvo V70 this morning where the rear lamps are on the wings and no lamps in the boot. I switched on the hazards with the ignition off and using the light switch in the dash on the RHS of the steering column I switched on the front and rear position lamps. I did my usual walk round and looked at the number plate lamps and these were not illuminated, so I went back to the ignition and switched on the ignition and then walked back to the boot, then I found that two more position lamps had illuminated, one on each side of the rear of the car in the same lamp clusters, at the side of the position lamp that was already on, and the number plate lamps had now illuminated. I again went back to the light switch and switched off the position lamps and the number plate lamps also extinguished with the position lamps, then I turned back on the position lamps with the light switch and the number plate lamps illuminated.

Where has all this lead us?

Are the position lamps front and rear actually position lamps when the ignition is switched off?

Are they not the park lamps?

Are the position lamps the lamps that illuminate with the number plate lamps when the igntion is also switched on?

Daveg

Thanks for that nitros44.

So my reading of their wording "matching pair" would mean either both inners or both outers and, for example, an offside outer and nearside inner would not be a matching pair. So if the offside outer bulb had blown and the nearside inner bulb had blown then there would not be a matching pair and therefore a fail?

Am I reading that right?

Hmmm Which one is the fail? or are they both? Because you only have to fix one of them to get a P&A EITHER one!

Thank you nitros44. Just what I said many moons ago

I'll let you off just this once

By their definition those lights wouldn't be a matching pair f5isyourfriend. If they want them to be matching on a horizontal plain then I'd guess the same would sensibly apply to the vertical.

I repeat, sensibly....