tonycondon
Gastons CRO (Chief Dinner Reservation Officer)
Well I hooked up trailer lights to my car. Interesting things have been happening since. My car has a single bulb with two filaments for the brakes. lets say filament 1 is the steady running light and 2 is the brake light. The trailer has a single filament with increased voltage for the brake. So when I connected the wire harness for the trailer to the car, I hooked wires for filaments 1 and 2 to the single wire for brakes on the trailer. Now, during the day, with daytime running lights on, when I hit the brakes, my dash lights (radio and mileage displays) dim. Not a big deal really but slightly annoying. I suspect this is because the filament 1 (which is also connected to the dash lights) and filament 2 really are connected now. At night, this does not happen as the dash lights are dimmed anyway, however, for some reason my cruise control does not work at night!? How the heck are these interrelated?
Also, initially I had the right blinker hooked up for the trailer wiring. It seemed simple enough, but caused major headaches. It would start out fine but once I started moving, the right blinker would start acting like a brake light, dim but steady on all the time and brighter when braking. what the heck? Im positive I have the right wires hooked up and have so far wrote that up to a short between the right blinker wire and the brake lights on the trailer. It did blow a fuse on my car at night which was aton of fun, no steady brake lights or dash lights driving down the highway.
Anyone got any Ideas on how to better wire the brake lights so that I dont have the dim issues during the day. And any thoughts on the cruise control? that seems just bizzare...
Also, initially I had the right blinker hooked up for the trailer wiring. It seemed simple enough, but caused major headaches. It would start out fine but once I started moving, the right blinker would start acting like a brake light, dim but steady on all the time and brighter when braking. what the heck? Im positive I have the right wires hooked up and have so far wrote that up to a short between the right blinker wire and the brake lights on the trailer. It did blow a fuse on my car at night which was aton of fun, no steady brake lights or dash lights driving down the highway.
Anyone got any Ideas on how to better wire the brake lights so that I dont have the dim issues during the day. And any thoughts on the cruise control? that seems just bizzare...