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Re: Head lights

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:25 pm
by OllieSJ
the negative wire that goes to the positive melted few weeks ago and replaced it today and everything started to smoke again so ripped it off the car works fine now but the lights !!

Re: Head lights

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:30 pm
by Darrell
I wonder who wired this up ;)

Re: Head lights

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:31 pm
by Jordi
Negative wire to the positive?

Re: Head lights

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:35 pm
by Darrell
Jordi wrote:Negative wire to the positive?
Please see above fire !!!!!

Well if you don't have fuses :poke:

Re: Head lights

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:45 pm
by ScottieJ
OllieSJ wrote:the negative wire that goes to the positive melted few weeks ago and replaced it today and everything started to smoke again so ripped it off the car works fine now but the lights !!
Errmmm the negative never go to the positive! Ollie before you do anything with those wires take a picture for us and we'll show you what goes where!

Otherwise your SJ might end up looking like that one ^^^^^^^^^

Re: Head lights

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:08 pm
by turbo-tom
Im not surprised it started melt with pos linked to neg!

Re: Head lights

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:09 pm
by OllieSJ
i wacked it in the same place as it was when i got it so no wonder it set on fire like 2 weeks after i got it

Re: Head lights

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:39 am
by OllieSJ
Oh i have just red through. i didnt link the battery terminal negative to the postive. I was the wire thats the earth that goes from the positive and bolts onto the body

Re: Head lights

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:26 am
by kiwizook
take that wire out as quick as you can ollie. this is putting power on everything the wrong way round, and you can cause some serious damage. there should be a wire from the negative terminal on the battery to the body, this is where all the power comes back. the positive terminal on the battery supplies all the power to your car, and shouldn't be connected to the car body, or it will burn down

Re: Head lights

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:34 am
by Jordi
Only the negative gets earthed. All positive wires need to be insulated from earthing out. If the positive earths by mistake it would the fuse. Thats the idea of fuses.