Anyone fancy a spot of wiring in Oxfordshire?
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I'm confused now, the loom in the lights is done so you just have to change the connector on the car? If that is the case then as long as your careful you can just pull the pins from the old plug and push them into the new oneAre you saying run the wires from the facelift lights straight into the male multiplugs from the originals, therefore clipping into the existing female multiplugs on the car? If so then I'm afraid it's not an option. Ford, in their wisdom, formed the male multiplug into the moulding of the light cap, which in turn doesn't fit the new lights.
Paul, he needs to change both sides of the connector, largely because the new lights have reverse and fog lights on both sides where the existing ones don't. It's not a straight swap.
Paulf1971 is a black man with a huge afro..... and he drives an MX-5
But there the similarities end.
His Mr T impressions are legendary....fool
loom in the car should be the same on all models, just pins in different places for the light looms
basically
old plug new plug
pin 1 = brake light pin 1 = Brake light
pin 2 = reverse pin 2 = Fog
pin 3 = Fog pin 3 = reverse
and so on
old plug new plug
pin 1 = brake light pin 1 = Brake light
pin 2 = reverse pin 2 = Fog
pin 3 = Fog pin 3 = reverse
and so on
I'd hazard a guess that, as Paul says, the in car looms will be the same as many will have been sold in LHD form with the fog on the left and the reversing lamp on the right.
Pfftt scotchlocks.. what happened to the good old choccy block.
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Soldering, spades, bullets, scothchlocks, scothchlocks,choccydoodaa's, flux shmux, what the hell is that all about?? Just get two bared ends twisted together and wrap it in masking take, job done! SORTED :beer::beer::beer:
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Soldering, spades, bullets, scothchlocks, scothchlocks,choccydoodaa's, flux shmux, what the hell is that all about?? Just get two bared ends twisted together and wrap it in masking take, job done! SORTED
Your secret is out Alan - you clearly used to work for Rover.
Soldering, spades, bullets, scothchlocks, scothchlocks,choccydoodaa's, flux shmux, what the hell is that all about?? Just get two bared ends twisted together and wrap it in masking take, job done! SORTED
Hey......... A connection is a connection all said and done. No need to be OTT !!!
All sorted. Massive thanks to Andy who quickly assessed my level of incompetence and did 98% of the job for me!
There are two earths coming off each light cluster, these need to be fed to the same pin in the multiplug to meet the single earth wire on the car loom. Numpty-bo11ocks here had fed each one to a separate pin in the new multiplug, which left us with a problem. Once the pins are in the plug, they ain't coming back out, as they have little one-way barbs on them to keep them in place. Not being able to remove the two separate earth pins I'd set up, we were (Andy was!) left with no other option but to discard the multiplugs and join the wires directly, which was done using crimped spades, wrapped with insulation tape once the functionality of the lights was checked and double checked. The bridging of the two clusters for the reverse and fog lights was achieved by running the two-core wire that Steve Morris recommended to me (purchased last-minute from Maplins in Bath, en route to Andy's 'cos I'm crap!) through a box section in the boot sill that handily happens to have a number of evenly spaced holes in it (allowing nice easy access to feed the wire through but keeping it safely out of the way) and splicing into the reverse and fog wires with scotch-locks. It all works perfectly.
As I said, I have to doff my cap to Andy for this, I genuinely couldn't have done it without him, as it turned out I'd aready managed to fubar the first part whilst supposedly following written and pictoral instructions! This wasn't a 'nice to have, just because' mod, but something absolutely essential to keep the car legal once we get to Germany. The man even fed me sandwiches, sausage rolls, biscuits and tea!
Rest assured, Andy, a bottle of something nice will be coming back from Germany with us for you.
Massive thanks to Andy who quickly assessed my level of incompetence and did 98% of the job for me! There are two earths coming off each light cluster, these need to be fed to the same pin in the multiplug to meet the single earth wire on the car loom. Numpty-bo11ocks here had fed each one to a separate pin in the new multiplug, which left us with a problem. Once the pins are in the plug, they ain't coming back out, as they have little one-way barbs on them to keep them in place. Not being able to remove the two separate earth pins I'd set up, we were (Andy was!) left with no other option but to discard the multiplugs and join the wires directly, which was done using crimped spades, wrapped with insulation tape once the functionality of the lights was checked and double checked. The bridging of the two clusters for the reverse and fog lights was achieved by running the two-core wire that Steve Morris recommended to me (purchased last-minute from Maplins in Bath, en route to Andy's 'cos I'm crap!) through a box section in the boot sill that handily happens to have a number of evenly spaced holes in it (allowing nice easy access to feed the wire through but keeping it safely out of the way) and splicing into the reverse and fog wires with scotch-locks. It all works perfectly.
As I said, I have to doff my cap to Andy for this, I genuinely couldn't have done it without him, as it turned out I'd aready managed to fubar the first part whilst supposedly following written and pictoral instructions! This wasn't a 'nice to have, just because' mod, but something absolutely essential to keep the car legal once we get to Germany. The man even fed me sandwiches, sausage rolls, biscuits and tea!
Rest assured, Andy, a bottle of something nice will be coming back from Germany with us for you.
Glad it's sorted Rich. Maybe think about a couple of soldering classes . Well done to Andy for getting all the connections sorted and spliced, however/whichever method you used . Tbh, it's been a cold day for soldering outdoors, i failed miserably today and resorted to a couple of bullets for a connection.
. Well done to Andy for getting all the connections sorted and spliced, however/whichever method you used . Tbh, it's been a cold day for soldering outdoors, i failed miserably today and resorted to a couple of bullets for a connection.