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 Trailer wiring troubleshooting tips and tricks

Summer is almost here and now is the time to get your trailer ready for summer fun (or chores). One of the most important tasks is to make sure your lighting is working properly. Many of us will find that winter has been detrimental to the wiring of our trailers. It may have fallen victim to corrosion or rodents.
If your trailer wire spool is giving you problems, here are some tips to help you get it back up and running.

1. Check the grounds. Grounding problems are the number one cause of trailer wiring problems. If in doubt, start there. Clean all ground connections. Ideally, each component has its own ground to the trailer frame. If you are getting strange flashing lights, your trailer may be grounded through the hitch and not through the trailer wiring connector. If the vehicle ground is stacked on a screw with other wires, consider moving it to its own screw or at least to the bottom of the stack. If your earth wire looks like this picture, the wire may be corroded under the insulation You should consider replacing the entire wire - or at least the last few feet.

2. Check any terminals or series connections. Replace old crimp-only and non-sealed terminals with crimped and solder-sealed terminals. Crimp-only terminals are often poorly connected, even if they feel tight. Corrosion can grow inside them, even down through the wire strands. Sealed connections created by crimp and solder sealed terminals are stronger than the wire itself, have no voltage drop across the connection and prevent any contaminants from entering. View a video on crimped and soldered sealed terminals. You can purchase bonded trailer wire here.

3. Check the fuses. If you have an active converter, make sure that its fuses are still intact. Check the lighting fuses on the tractor. Check the vehicle side and trailer side wiring for any series fuses and test them. If you continue to experience blown fuses, the circuit may be overloaded - replacing the trailer lighting with LEDs is one possible solution to this problem.

4. Determine if the problem is with the trailer wiring or the trailer wiring. Test the trailer without it being connected to the vehicle. You can use the vehicle side wiring harness and connect it to a separate battery. Simply connect all coloured wires to the positive terminal and the white wire to the negative terminal. If your trailer lights work properly at this setting, you will know the problem is with the trailer.

5. Consider rewiring. Wires can corrode from the inside, making the problem difficult to detect. Insulation can break down with age and cause short circuits. Many times, if your trailer wire has been repaired several times or has just become old, it is more effective to continue rewiring the trailer than to continue adding Band-Aid repairs. Complete kits are inexpensive and can usually be installed in an afternoon.

6. check the reason. Yes, it's worth saying again! Make sure your wiring has a clean, secure ground.

If the above checks work fine after use then you can drive your trailer and start your work. If it turns out a little bad then there is no need to worry, use a trailer wire spool to replace the wiring, take care of the trailer wiring and it will work fine.

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