Cruise control and lights

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 10:49 pm

Earth faults are the easiest IMO. Find the component, find its earth, continuity check it to an earth point then if its bad, find the earth location. A wiring diagram/manual, multi meter and some savvy, you know what I'm saying? (in a cpt. Jack Sparrow accent)

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 10:50 pm

savvy

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 10:57 pm

I'm sat here doing a bit of

at my self for drokk sake

Post by **Gayno** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:00 pm

wurlycorner wrote: Both faults (yours and Gayno's starting one) sound like earth faults to me?
I hate earth faults. They can be a right arse to track down...

More than likely, given my car is a hybrid UKDM/JDM, the break could be anywhere!!

My "fault" however, is quite a good theft prevention technique

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:03 pm

To be fair, the wiring diagrams for the Lude are really good and show exactly where all the looms and earth points are, so yep it probably isn't too bad. I'm used to working on something like my CX though, where the wiring schematics are great, but there are no wiring diagrams and all the wires are green (or yellow) so finding anything is a whole lot more difficult!

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:04 pm

Gayno wrote: My "fault" however, is quite a good theft prevention technique

only if it's raining...

Post by **c_doughty1** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:17 pm

wurlycorner wrote: Both faults (yours and Gayno's starting one) sound like earth faults to me?
I hate earth faults. They can be a right arse to track down...

I think your right, earth fault is what I'm thinking too.

Confused · Post by **Confused** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:57 pm

It could be backfeed from the lighting circuit via the brake light circuit.

Especially with LED bulbs - my dad fitted some LEDs to his Shogun, and it prevented the cruise control from working, and the torque converter would no longer lock up. Swapped them back to standard twin filament bulbs, and was perfect again.

Post by **c_doughty1** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:58 am

Confused wrote:It could be backfeed from the lighting circuit via the brake light circuit.

Especially with LED bulbs - my dad fitted some LEDs to his Shogun, and it prevented the cruise control from working, and the torque converter would no longer lock up. Swapped them back to standard twin filament bulbs, and was perfect again.

I'm not convinced that's the problem because it wasn't working prior to the leds going in. I suppose they will be drawing less power, what are they 1 or 2 watts instead of the standard ones.

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