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Brian Lewis (Thejekyll)
| | Posted on Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 04:58 pm: | 
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I have a 2001 DII &recently hooked up two Hella 4000's, Hella Matador work lamp, dual Optima batteries. Here is my problem I folowed the directions on p://www.disco2.com/ for auxillary wiring for my rear Matador work lamp & when I used the color wire from the factory switch a cloud of smoke came from my switch & melted all of the plastice around one of the wires & melted my switch I took my dash appart & it took the coating offall the way down so I hooked the light up to a after market switch & worked fine, but yesterday on a long trip I noticed I have two problems (one) my cruise control switch lightsup but will not work (two) my brake lights are on whenever the ignition is on, I tapped off of the big red wire in the loom coming off of the steering column which I think is the headlights, because my Hella's will only work with the parking or lights are on. Does anyone know what I might of done to cause these two problems. P.S. I checked all of the fuses & they are okay.
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Eric Pena (Evalp)
| | Posted on Monday, July 22, 2002 - 12:07 pm: |
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It it is possible that when the wires got hot and melted other wires could have melted onto it or shorted. Depending on what happened back behind the dash, this could be a real pain in your ass. Thats all I can tell you. |
Brian Lewis (Thejekyll)
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 23, 2002 - 09:03 am: |
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Eric I took the dash appart & traced the wire that got so hot it melted the coating back about 2' & all the other wires appear to be okay. I called the dealership & they think it is a bad cruise control pump & brake switch apparently this is common with the DII's maybe just a coincidence that I noticed this shortly after adding the light. If anyone else has any ideas please respond.
Thank you,
Brian |
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