Electrical Help Needed Quickly!
- Ian_Fearn
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Electrical Help Needed Quickly!
It turns out the MOT has ran out on the 4x4 and i need to get it back on the road ASAP.
The rear fog light is the main thing wrong with it. I've changed the switch and the bulb and neither lights work.
Is the wiring below a bodge?
Electrics really arent my thing, i wouldnt know what to do with a multimeter.
The rear fog light is the main thing wrong with it. I've changed the switch and the bulb and neither lights work.
Is the wiring below a bodge?
Electrics really arent my thing, i wouldnt know what to do with a multimeter.
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I cant say its a bodge as such, just the most simple solution to something i would say. Looks like someone needed an earth in a hurry and that was the easiest way of doing it.
Anyone wanna prove or disprove my thoughts?
Anyone wanna prove or disprove my thoughts?
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To slightly mis-quote Kitch ... "BX 14. They're just brilliant!"
Exactly the same earth repair on Vera and also on Rubina (thankfully Mandy doesnt need one yet) - works a treat so I have left alone.
Do you have 12V at the lamp cluster when teh switch is on - if not out with the DMM and chase the fault - otherwise graft a new lenghth of wire in from the relay / switch back.
Do you have 12V at the lamp cluster when teh switch is on - if not out with the DMM and chase the fault - otherwise graft a new lenghth of wire in from the relay / switch back.
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it's built into the socket. The system works very much like plugging in headphones to a stereo system cuts out the speakers: When you plug in the trailer, the foglamps on the car should "cut out".
But... a bit of corrosion in the socket, and the fog lamps remain cut out perrmanently.
To bypass the fog cut system, find the foglamp feed to the socket, and the return to the car lamp clusters, and bridge them together. The fog cut system will no longer work, but the foglamps will (hopefully)
But... a bit of corrosion in the socket, and the fog lamps remain cut out perrmanently.
To bypass the fog cut system, find the foglamp feed to the socket, and the return to the car lamp clusters, and bridge them together. The fog cut system will no longer work, but the foglamps will (hopefully)
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Not necesserally (sic)DavidRutherford wrote:it's built into the socket.
Vera had a genuine Citroen jobbie and had a little fog light cut out box inside the nearside rear wing - this enables a normal 12N type socket to be used and senses the current draw bypassing the lamp - load of tosh and didnt work on Vera, so I cut it out & hard wired the lamp in anyway so both van & car lit up (same on old Laguna) - never bothered me really.
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That's a bit cleverer than the "switch in the socket" type.Marty wrote:normal 12N type socket to be used and senses the current draw bypassing the lamp
Although the same fix is no doubt true.... disconnect feed from wiring loom and feed to car fog lamps and bridge together.
Personally I don't see the point in fog cut systems. I've never had a working fog cut system on anything I've owned, and I tow an awful lot.
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