Re: trailer lights defying logic and won't work
In the past week, we've had a grand total of four harnesses on the trailer side - if you include the original,the replacement, plus the two light kits we bought.<br />It appears that the trailer is the problem for us as well. Hubby went out at 5 a.m. with son and hooked up last set of new lights. He didn't run them through trailer, though. He just connected them and left sitting on ground so he could seem them while he worked on wires on truck lights. He handed one light to son, who accidently touched hitch ball on truck while leaning into back to get something. Lights lit right up. He touched them again to ball and they lit up. Then they ran the lights to back of trailer and attached and nothing!!! Son (luckily, 19-years-old and old enough to hear such language) says hubby threw something and swore profusely. Hubby then removed lights and took back up to ball and touched screw to ball and the lights lit up. That left the trailer. He touched light screw to trailer and got nothing. Then he scraped paint and rust from same spot and touched screw to it and light lit up. Apparently, all the paint and rust on the trailer (yes, three layers of paint that we can see now that we're scraping off HOUSE paint from it) was interfering with conductivity.<br />Meantime, based on above suggestions, hubby ran separate ground wires to each light and that worked! <br />Paint. It was the blasted paint on the trailer. We were baffled because a friend from church towed the bow to our house for us after we bought it (we were out of town and seller was moving). Friend said the lights had worked when hooked to HIS Explorer and that's where we were so confused because we believed the lights had been working on another car. Just found out yesterday that he didn't actually SEE the lights work but that the seller had told him they were "good to go". Now we wonder if this friend traveled 50 miles in the dark with no trailer lights after all.<br />So, thanks to all and I'm sure we'll be posting another question soon ... being new boat owners and all.