Thread: Auto Electrician

I think there are a couple of tricks with doing the installation on a D4 - there is a relatively recent thread on it - so I would be wary of a general auto elect - one with D4 experience would be OK.

If no one offers a better suggestion see if All Four x 4 in Kotara will do it.

Cheers

Garry

Originally Posted by Lightweight

Hi,

I am after a competent Auto Electrician (or someone else competent) in the Hunter area who is familiar with the D4, I want to get an Automatic Brake Controller, one of Traxide's DBS systems fitted (that I will supply with Battery), and an air-compressor, Newcastle/Hunter first priority, but will travel to Sydney for the day to get it done if no one here can do it.

Anyone had any good experiences with someone who could do the job ?

Thanks in advance.

You could do this yourself. I did it was really easy after (ARB stuffed it up and i didn't trust them again with it) and I was on the road when I had to do a quick fix it myself. Wires where reversed.
If you . Follow instruction in tread on camper brakes in this forum. Don't forget the plug on back of D4 is total wrong to aust trailer wiring setup . But it's not that hard to read the black cap which is the trick. It tells you what the wires and colors are for. Don't forget to solder your wires not scotch locks like ARB will use. Run a traxidelectonics dual battery while you have the foot sills out. Saves on time on doing it twice. Red arc remote head is easy to install and just works well. Give it a go!!!

Originally Posted by Discorow

Don't forget the plug on back of D4 is total wrong to aust trailer wiring setup .

Bull****!

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Originally Posted by sniegy

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Difficult to tell Sniegy, are you disagreeing?

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Difficult to tell Sniegy, are you disagreeing?

Looks like it....the wiring is fine on my MY12.
Everything works as it should.
Brett.....

It's only one wire. The pin allocated for trailer brakes has an additional taillight feed inti it. If fitting a brake controller the wire is swapped over for the brake controller.

Discrow was exaggerating a bit - if towing a normal trailer with no brakes there are no issues at all.

Sniegy's response was maybe a little strong as well

However if you connect a braked trailer the standard connector you will have no trailer brakes until you turn the lights on then your trailer brakes will be on all the time.

The standard connector provides an individual feed to each of the trailer tail lights rather than just one feed to both lights. One of these feeds is the one for trailer brakes on the Aust system.

So all you need to do is identify which of the tail light feeds is going to the trailer brakes and pull the fuse in the rear of the car. When you install your brake controller the feed to the trailer just need to either go on the dead side of the above fuse or remove the tail light wire on the liveside of the fuse and connect the trailer brake wire there and then put a fuse back.

So not totally stuffed up but does require a slight modification to the wiring.

Garry

I have wired in a brake controller as per Sniegy's instructions. The brake controller works fine, and the trailer lights on LED or the older festoon type lighting setups work fine, without issues. The plugs are untouched. The only mod is the isolation of one wire when connecting the brake controller to the lh rear taillight wiring loom, as per Sniegy's instructions. Works for me!