For those of you who hate electrical, how would u like to have these problems come up

[ktmoutfront]

Electrical is not really that difficult if you can relax and think through it. Good for you.

Nothing magical about it. But so many people are afraid to try.

 

[diesel4me]

A Chrysler Pacifica had 3 of us baffled at my friends shop...
The right front fog lamp stays on with the switch off,key off,and "pulses" rapidly..
The windsheild wiper motor only works at low speed,and the blades can be stopped with barely any pressure..sometimes they wont make a full pass,they sit there and the motor hums...
When the wiper motor is turned on,the headlamps come on by themselves,then go from full brightness to dim,like there is a dead short somewhere..
If you stop the wipers by hand,the headlamps start going from full bright to dim glow again...

My friend knows a junkyard owner well,he lets him "borrow" parts sometimes,and he went and got another wiper motor...

Plugged it in,it does the same thing,only this motor was so weak it wont even work the blades at all,unless you "help" them,and only on low speed..

No wires appear burnt or crossed,the battery will eventually go dead from the right hand fog lamp staying on,but no other "drains" are apparent..

The car was one a customer had up for sale he bought at auction to flip,and was hoping to get everything working "cheaply" so it would bring a higher price..after 3 of us tested all our various theories about bad grounds,stuck relays,etc,with no improvement,the owner had one "customer" who was willing to buy it for 200 bucks less "as-is"...
I think he accepted the offer!...(I wish the next owner much luck!)..

 

[JDNobodi]

A Chrysler Pacifica had 3 of us baffled at my friends shop...
The right front fog lamp stays on with the switch off,key off,and "pulses" rapidly..
The windsheild wiper motor only works at low speed,and the blades can be stopped with barely any pressure..sometimes they wont make a full pass,they sit there and the motor hums...
When the wiper motor is turned on,the headlamps come on by themselves,then go from full brightness to dim,like there is a dead short somewhere..
If you stop the wipers by hand,the headlamps start going from full bright to dim glow again...

My friend knows a junkyard owner well,he lets him "borrow" parts sometimes,and he went and got another wiper motor...

Plugged it in,it does the same thing,only this motor was so weak it wont even work the blades at all,unless you "help" them,and only on low speed..

No wires appear burnt or crossed,the battery will eventually go dead from the right hand fog lamp staying on,but no other "drains" are apparent..

The car was one a customer had up for sale he bought at auction to flip,and was hoping to get everything working "cheaply" so it would bring a higher price..after 3 of us tested all our various theories about bad grounds,stuck relays,etc,with no improvement,the owner had one "customer" who was willing to buy it for 200 bucks less "as-is"...
I think he accepted the offer!...(I wish the next owner much luck!)..

That one sounds like a fun one. It probably cost more to fix that rust belt car then what he got out of it. Sometimes you come across a job that you narrow down the problem and could fix it but the it cost more than the job is worth. Sometime you actually lose money.

 

[max 02]

Nice! Wiring is not my thing.

I envy you guys that like doing it!

 

[diesel4me]

That one sounds like a fun one. It probably cost more to fix that rust belt car then what he got out of it. Sometimes you come across a job that you narrow down the problem and could fix it but the it cost more than the job is worth. Sometime you actually lose money.

Sad part is the car looked minty otherwise!..had only 73,000 miles too..nice interior..no major undercarriage rust...we thought maybe it had been in a flood,but was too clean to have that happen!..

That is why the guy decided to let it go for 200 less,and make not much of a profit on it..he figured by the time the problem was diagnosed,he'd have a lot of hours of labor to pay for...electrical woes suck,because usually once you find the "problem",after hours of screwing around,it can often be fixed in 5 minutes with just a hunk of wire or a crimp connector or something,its usually somthing stupid you'd never think would cause it to do what it did..