Discovering the D4

[aus86inch]

Spent the day on Sunday checking out my new truck, decided to have a bit of a sleep in the back whilst admiring the inside LOL. then proceeded to the front, popped the bonnet to look around.
Removed all the plastic bits and the head lights and the front grill to find a lot of the wiring had no conduit or even insulation tape on quite a few areas to rolls of insulation tape to be exact.
now the scary bit, bunch of wires pushed down hard onto a sharp metal plate in the brake booster compartment even to the extent there was coloured shavings below it.
bit disappointed since it is only 1200km young
have attached photo, maybe others should check there's out, time and tape is cheap compared to short circuit.
question, i have posted a photo, laying on ground looking under near side rear quarter panel next to exhaust, that style of plug is it waterproof, mud etc as it is very exposed.
sorry about the long thread but does anybody have a protection plate under the transfer case / gearbox to protect the sensors sticking out phew got it all out, i,ll take a breath now
thanks Andrew

[TerryO]

Yes it looks quite horrendous and goes against all the things you always believed were reasonable standards, but the only thing is they have been building them like this since the D3 and its rear to hear about shorts ever.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just I can't remember the last time I read about it, if indeed I have.

Re auto protection plate check out Gordon's site ... http://www.greenovalexperience.com

Congrats on the new wagon.

[Epic pooh]

Mine has survived 9 years of being wired like that ... No problems ! I must say that some of the joins like that under the car used to worry me a bit until I worked out that it's to make it easier to wash the muck out !

[Mungus]

[QUOTE=TerryO;2211809]

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just I can't remember the last time I read about it, if indeed I have.

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Must have missed my recent thread re: No headlights etc.. Terry. Ended up being a squashed wiring loom shorting the Canbus cable to earth.

[Meken]

Connector looks watertight (best to pull apart to check) it's the exposed wiring I'd be unhappy about pretty exposed to a stick or rock damaging it - at least some more conduit or wrapping in tape would give it a bit more of a chance.
EDIT I guess if an electrical connector under the vehicle was not waterproof and LR advertise a wading depth that would immerse the connector then a big not fit for purpose argument arises !!

[ade]

I just assumed the plugs are water/dust proof

[TerryO]

[quote=Mungus;2211940]

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just I can't remember the last time I read about it, if indeed I have.

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Must have missed my recent thread re: No headlights etc.. Terry. Ended up being a squashed wiring loom shorting the Canbus cable to earth.

Yes I did miss it Mungus, a question though if you don't mind? How did the wiring loom get squashed behind the head light?

[aus86inch]

I will be down the back of the vehicle this weekend, just ordered my sliders from Brad so will get to and make a few protection plates/covers as well as run conduit and tape around the rest of the exposed wiring.
plan to go for 12 months plus pulling a van through the outback & want to protect the vulnerable bits as much as possible.

[silkhammer]

Glad to hear I was not the only one to be somewhat shocked at the standard of protection / securing of the cabling under the bonnet and body!

My father (die-hard Nissan man) pointed this out with great glee when we were checking the vehicle out after I took delivery, and after years of owning only Japanese & Australian made vehicles, I was struggling to argue!

I may follow your lead with some tape and cable ties to try and tidy the thing up a bit... know that it will probably never be an issue but will feel better anyway.

[winaje]

Could be that the looms are more open to allow easier fault finding...