Guest MarkD Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Howya Fella''s Spent a couple of hours on Saturday prepping my boat for a move from our old place to the new. Gave it a scrub and a general tidy up. Bought a new travel strap and winch in Whitworths...got back to the boat and realised that some scumbag had pinched my adaptor for the trailer lights (flat to round) :-mad2 :-mad2 So back to whitworths and bought a new adaptor, only $15 but buying something for the second time really didnt sit well...Got back to the boat and hooked everything up and tested the lights...not a dicky bird!! Very frustrating. Checked the connections and everything looked OK. I hadnt used the lights since buying the boat as we had a ramp in the garden of the old place, so they have never been submerged as you can easily take them on and off.. Upshot is that it looks like next weekend will be spent trying to fix or replacing the lights. and therefore another weekend off the water :-mad2 :-mad2 As I have (very) limited technical and electrical skills I was hoping if the ever reliable FR''s migt be able to offer some advice?? Im thinking that I first have to establish if theres any power coming from the 4WD...??? Thanks in advance Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pedro Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 What suburb are you Mark ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MarkD Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Fishn, Thanks for the tip Pedro, The boat is in Drummoyne. Cheers Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pedro Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Fishn,Thanks for the tip Pedro, The boat is in Drummoyne. Cheers Mark Bugger - bit far from me. Maybe a closer member can run a test light over it. At worse - you can pop out to my place & I can show you how to test. These things are actually quite simple to wire up - considering I am not a technical person If I can do it it must be simple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_s Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Whenever I have problems with my trailer lights its always been loose wires in the trailer plug. Might be worth pulling the plug apart and seeing if any of the connections aren''t good. If you take your car to an auto eclect they can test the car''s wiring, they didn''t charge me (only takes a sec) but I am not sure if thats standard or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jocool Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Mate...Try this LINK! It shows the wiring plug socket number and the corresponding wire colour for each wire. All you need to do is know how to use a test light which you can get for about $5 from Supa Cheap or some such place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basic_fisho Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Joe i have just put that in my favourites,very very handy,well done.Ben. :beer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MarkD Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Fella''s Thanks for you assistance, I knew I could rely on you boys!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_s Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Yeah, top link Joe. I used to use the trial and error method, very very frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jocool Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 :thumbsup: Anytime boys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefin Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Thanks Jo, have printed and filed it. Will come in very handy! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harold Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 (edited) i get electricians to do that stuff, all i ever do is make it all worse by being incompetent. Harold Edited September 1, 2004 by harold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grantm Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Mark if you still cant getem going and can get the car and trailer to Hornsby ill get my electrician to fix it for you supa cheap if not nothin. I run a rather larger workshop. :beer: cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MarkD Posted September 7, 2004 Share Posted September 7, 2004 Grant, Many thanks for the offer - just read your post now and have already had the car and lights with an auto leccie... :-mad2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grantm Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Hey Mark, Hope they didn't sting you too hard for the repairs. At least its fixed now which is the main thing. Cheers :gleam: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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