can someone help me with the colour codes for the ford wiring swichers lights,wipers as i have looked at the manual for a week and dont understand it
thank you

From the top of my head...

Red is input (permanent)
Grey - is sidelight out.

Don't know rest - not got me book!

That's a bit too vague, can you elaborate? The switch wiring or the lighting, are you using the Sierra column switches and have you used relays? You need the connectors and some tails left on them to connect to the switches and have you saved the Ford loom or are you making one?Red is permanent live, brown is earth, black is switched live. I've lent my book out so I can't remember the rest but wired some indicators yesterday and they worked.

hope you are talking sierra switches.
I found it easier to play with the switches & a meter rather than the diagrams, the diagrams for a sierra are all confused with the dreaded DIM/DIP system, it does help if you understand the basis principle of how they were designed.

The sidelights take a constant feed into the switch then out through the fusebox to the lights.(headlight switch position 1)

the headlight work through relays, constant feed goes into the two relays & out throught the fusebox to the bulbs, the relays are energised by earthing them out through (headlight switch in position 2) but between the relays & the headlight switch is the dip/mainbeam switch on the other stalk,this decides which relay is earthed, dip or mainbeam. the only other lights wire is an earth for flashing main beam which earths out the the mainbeam relay,

dont try to run the headlights without relays, the switches wont take the load,

start with that & then move onto the other functions, come back to us if you are still stuck
ggo luck

The joys of very old wiring diagrams, when diagrams actually looked like the loom in the car, the current digrams (have been current for a long while) are diabolical for working out what is what. 2 items close ogether in the diagrmas could actually be at other ends of the car for all the diagramstell you.

This may help....or may not.

Lucas wiring colour codes...here:

http://www.fatblokeracing.org/wirecode.shtml

David