Thread: Trailer brake lights not working

Mick if you send RAT a pm he will help, he is a sparky by trade and just as good with Landrover.

He logs on most nights

<span style="color:blue">do the brake lights on the tow vehicle work....?


have you checked to see if the pin for the brake lights in the trailer socket
actually gets power when you press the brake lights....?
(use a multimeter or test light to check this....)


it may be as simple as a broken wire....or a blown fuse.....


let me know the answers and we then go to the next step......</span>

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">do the brake lights on the tow vehicle work....?</span> Yep, lights work on my D2


[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">have you checked to see if the pin for the brake lights in the trailer socket
actually gets power when you press the brake lights....?
(use a multimeter or test light to check this....)</span>Haven't done this as I don't have a multimeter. If it is a fuse, am I going to find it amongst the other fuses for the car?

Appreciate your help.

<span style="color:blue">try it with a test light.....

if you dont have just go to the nearsest $2 shop and get one.....
or you nearest automotive store will have them.....


you can make one with a simple LED and a resistor.....




you need to find out if the trailer socket on the vehicle is getting power....
have a look behind the socket and see if you can see where the wiring from the sockets joins up with the vehicles wiring.......
and see if you can tell me how its connected....
eg soldered.....plugged in.....scotch locked......</span>

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">have a look behind the socket and see if you can see where the wiring from the sockets joins up with the vehicles wiring.......
and see if you can tell me how its connected....
eg soldered.....plugged in.....scotch locked......</span>

Wire is connected directly to socket on the bumper - connected it myself and checked it out thoroughly before fitting back together. Didn't work before I re wired it either. Might try and get a test light to see if it is indeed getting any power, at least then I can work back.

Thanks again, Mick

<span style="color:blue">where is the other end wired to....?</span>