Trailer lights

[MIKE IN lINO III]

I have a FLoe that the running lights don't work but the brake lights do. I'm tired of messing with this thing. Does anyone know of someone in the Lino Lakes area that works on trailer lights???

Mike

[Wishin2BFishin]

Most of the time if the brake lights work but the running lights don't it's a bad ground. Try taking a jumper cable and hook it to the trailer and then to the bumper or trailer hitch. If the running lights work then it's the ground. Most people try to ground the trailer thru the hitch and sometimes things get a little rusted and it won't work. Best thing to do is make a ground cable that you can clamp from the trailer to the car. Best of luck...

[ratmn218]

brake lights work off the green and yellow wires. your running lights work off the brown wire. so my guess is that you have a broken wire or bad connection involving the brown wire. if you have no running light working at all, my guess your wire problem is in the front of trailer. hope this helps

[Jeremy airjer W]

Mike,

before you bring in your trailer you might want to check everything on the truck side of the wiring (if you haven't already done so). 90% of the trailer wiring problems I see are bad connections at the trailer to vehicle plug in or corroded splices/taps in the vehicle wiring harness. Make sure all the pins are clean and that they are actually there. The next thing I would do is check to make sure you have power/ground on the vehicle end of the harness. If everything is o.k. there then I would agree that it is the trailer end of the wiring that has gone bad.

Unfortunately I don't know anyone in lino lakes that I could recomend personaly. Most automotive shops will work on them but then your looking at paying some big $$$$. You may wan't to think about just replacing everything. Trailing light/harness kit is pretty cheap. A couple hours to install and your back in business.

If you decide to do it your self I would highly recommend soldering and shrinkwrapping all your connections, Liquid black tape on any connection you can't shrink wrap, and greasing all the bulb sockets. These three thing will add considerable life to the new components.

[lawdog]

I agree with everything Airjer said. Would just add that one of the easiest ways to check if its in the vehicle (without having to get into the dirty snowy areas of your undercarriage) is see if you have the same problem when the trailer is plugged into other vehicles (preferably ones that tow their own trailers with good working lights).

If you have trailer light problems you can't readily see, I really do think its cheapest and easiest to just put a whole new kit on. I've done it to more trailers than I can even remember over the years.