Rewiring Help -

[theoilburner 7]

Hi all, can anyone give me a heads up on the common faults with wiring looms? I'm currently repairing my looms due to a few melted wires and I've read there are common faults with these which is rather upgrade while I'm in the process. Other thing is that I haven't actually found the cause of the meltdown which is a bit worrying - it's mainly the orange wire in the dash loom that runs between the 2 connectors and one of the wires in the headlight loom, is there anything I should pay particular attention to/likely cause??

 

Sorry to be a bit vague, just don't want it to all burn out again in the future

[jackherer 543]

I would check the headlight bulbs to make sure they are not over rated in terms of wattage.

[Telf 224 2 Cars]

Im going to second Jackherers suggestion based on the fact I had a similar fault about 4 months ago - Jack said check the headlights - hey pesto! it was the bulbs should be 50 Watt filaments - had 100Watt fitted

[theoilburner 7]

Funnily enough one of the wires to the headlights with had burnt out

[jackherer 543]

Have a good look at the plugs going onto the fusebox too.

[theoilburner 7]

Just checked bulbs, both 12v/55W.

Will have a good check over everything, although hard to tell what is duff and what isnt

[jackherer 543]

Those are the correct bulbs. I meant check the fusebox plugs for burning/melting.

 

Can you follow the wires that melted to see if you can find a wire number at the other end, or if you can't find a number tell us which plug it goes to so we have a chance to identify it.