Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by Tankmat

Thanks JWB, I looked at so many different types of lights before I went with these. I didn’t like the look of the LED amber/white bars and teralume were the only company that does white and an amber rock light. I gave the guys a call and was super impressed, love the lights

I’ve also bought a set of Kings rock lights for my daughter’s Navara to go on the tub racks. They alternate switching between white and amber. Will do a comparison on bug effectiveness when we camp together.

It got 2 tweaks:

First, I sacrificed a $10 KMart yoga mat for rear seatback protection: I hate all those messy rear compartment fold out/roll out mats that get in the way or need to come out for normal use, and that don't let me just fold one or two seats down when in place, but also hate wrecking the rear seat carpet backs with general day-to-day use... Not being willing to pay huge dollars for a bespoke fitted solution, this will work in the first place. Held on with double sided carpet tape. Lower rear tailgate shot of work in progress.
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Then I put some front mudflaps on, using Scott's posts as a reference. For those who haven't had to solve the problem before, here's a good tip for when you need to drill a hole in something once its offered up. The problem here is that I needed to use the installed screw on the car, but didn't want to spend all day making templates, testing and adjusting etc. My solution is to target the screwhole with my laser (first picture.). Then having screwed the mudflap in place using the other hole, I can drill at the marked crosshairs. Quick, accurate, no stress.
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Couldn’t help myself

Made and fitted a pulse buster for the LED's on my caravan, when testing it i found when i turned it off that i wasn't getting the usual flickering of the indicators.
Instead they both would flash at a normal rate when indicating left or right ?

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Made and fitted a pulse buster for the LED's on my caravan, when testing it i found when i turned it off that i wasn't getting the usual flickering of the indicators.
Instead they both would flash at a normal rate when indicating left or right ?

The relays prevent the pulsing, the resistors tell the car the van is attached. I assume (dangerous I know) your switch merely disconnects the resistors, leaving the relays in place.

Originally Posted by BradC

The relays prevent the pulsing, the resistors tell the car the van is attached. I assume (dangerous I know) your switch merely disconnects the resistors, leaving the relays in place.

Correct just switching the resistors, strange why both come on when it's switched off when they are on separate circuits.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Correct just switching the resistors, strange why both come on when it's switched off when they are on separate circuits.

Post a drawing of your circuit and all will become clear. I’ll wager you’ve tied the earth end of your resistors together and switched that using a single pole switch. When it’s on everything works perfectly and when it’s off you’ve tied the circuits together through the resistors.

Boat to fishing stations had a nice 800km ish cruise.

150km from home the Amigos arrived. Rolled into refuel and restart- how was that for timing? Power off or dying for 5km at least. No power steering but brakes working fine. The last km at sub 40km was interesting.

I had allowed fuel to get to last 5 litres and also noted the electronic brake controller was flicking on and off 200km before the Amigos arrived. No electric brakes on the boat trailer?


Restart had everything fine - 1 km later they returned. Removed brake control with shifter in hand for a hard reset. Hard reset not needed.

Home again but now in ISO as one of my crew tested + as we got home

The LED trailer lights were missing my resistor which was on my other trailer. Easily fixed by unplugging the brake controller.

No fish in my boat. A barrel Head and frame was in the bin- Pic to Mario - the Barrel was a 140KG bluefin tuna - bet they had a huge smile and very sore arms and back after that beast.



Hope you all had a great Easter