Another Trailer Wiring ?

[tomfromblaine]

Just wondering what color wire would be the running lights? I noticed today that their not working, all others are, I have the flat 4wire connecter, looking for a point to start trouble shooting from.any info would be great thanks..

[PT73]

1st thing to check is your fuse, if the vehicle was wired correctly, each action(running,r-l turn, and brake will each have its own fuse. See your owners manual.

[Macgyver55]

Brown = running lights

Yellow =left turn/brake

green =right turn/brake

white -ground

[tomfromblaine]

Thanks guys it's a 99 Blazer and had factory wire harness to the back but no connector so I did that a couple of years ago and couldn't remember what wire did what, also thanks for the fuse tip I'll check that first hopefully that will keep me from crawling around on my hands and knees

[shouldbefishn]

Checking fuse is #1. Had the same problem with 1 year old trailer. Mice had gotten into the trailer frame and had a smorgasboard with a clearance light wire. Replaced and wala! When will trailer manufacturers figure it out? This winter I am going to run all my trailer wires inside of corregated black tubing. Should cut down on problems other than connections at the lights.

[tomfromblaine]

Thanks for the info, no such luck on the the fuse, ended up crawlin' around found brown wire broke off at connector

[Lunker]

I have the same running light problem on my car. We attached the hitch and wired mine a few weeks ago, and boy was it ****(really hot place no one wants to go). I have a saturn car(yea yea, real outdoorsey I know) that had the craziest wiring in the trunk ever. Had weird light panels, with really randomly colored and very out of order wires. Thankfully we found one of those gadgets that tells you when a wire is being used, so we figured it out. All except the running lights. Argghh.

[dogfishHUNTER]

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Checking fuse is #1. Had the same problem with 1 year old trailer. Mice had gotten into the trailer frame and had a smorgasboard with a clearance light wire. Replaced and wala! When will trailer manufacturers figure it out? This winter I am going to run all my trailer wires inside of corregated black tubing. Should cut down on problems other than connections at the lights.

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Another thing you can add to your trailer if you want is me and my dad stuuffed that steel thread suff(can't remember what its really called) in all the holes and put calking all around it. It works great. We havent a problem yet.( we store the trailer outside when our boat is in the lake) We did it to trailer when we bought it three years ago. also it doesn't even look tacky, person could barely notice it. You can use differnt colors to match you trailer like white or black