trailer light hell

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trailer light hell

Postby dh » Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:36 pm

Last month I had troubles with my left turn/stop controlling my running lights. I tracked it down to a faulty 7pin to 4pin converter and changed the plug on the trailer to a 7pin. Problem solved... Untill I hooked up the utility trailer last night. Same problem on the right side. After checking all the wiring and finding no issues anywhere I put the bulbs back in the tail lights. The problem moved to the left side. Turned out the fillament for the stop/turn broke and shorted out against the tail fillament. I'm so glad I'm going with LEDs on+the+teardrop.
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Postby parnold » Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:40 pm

The real question is how much of your time was taken up before you found it was a 50 cent bulb. I don't think I would have ever suspected a bulb.

Good find!
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Postby Miriam C. » Tue Apr 20, 2010 4:50 pm

:o :thumbsup: Good find and thanks so much for letting us know. I will remember that one. ;)
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Postby dh » Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:43 pm

parnold wrote:The real question is how much of your time was taken up before you found it was a 50 cent bulb. I don't think I would have ever suspected a bulb.

Good find!


I never would have thought about the bulb either, fortunately I got them swapped when I put them back in.
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