Trailer Lights?????

[seabast]

What truck or car do you hook up your trailer onto? I had to replace my plug receiver in my truck, ordered online for 25$. Really easy to replace.
Also, you should put electrical contact grease in every plugs and holes, will save you a lot of grief overtime.

[Bgh]

Thought of you today, since I also broke my trailer light on a boat ramp. Picked up a new set from Princes Auto, How hard can it be.

Nice units with Brown wire for running lights, White wire for ground , Yellow and green wires for signals.. All wired up and working great till , I tested running lights... Side marker lights come as they should with running lights but the main rear bulbs no light.

Will give the short version of the hours spent running new harness and connectors trying to solve problem. Ashamed of time spent.

Turns out that the brown running light wire only reached the side bulb, instead of being connected to both bulbs in the tail light unit..

The white wire was not a normal ground wire , but was wired into the main bulb as a feed... They must have run short of the proper coloured brown and used white instead.

The mounting bolts provide the only grounding needed upon fastening to the metal frame.

I like the idea of having a extra magnetic set of lights along for long trips, to avoid road side repairs

[cuda]

What truck or car do you hook up your trailer onto? I had to replace my plug receiver in my truck, ordered online for 25$. Really easy to replace.
Also, you should put electrical contact grease in every plugs and holes, will save you a lot of grief overtime.

2008 chevy equinox, had the truck wired when i installed the hitch.

[cuda]

Does the white wire in the truck plug have a GOOD ground ....

Checked that too perfect.

[cuda]

Went back to the shop just to see hooked up the truck to the trailer pluged in the lights all is good. Can't figure out what went wrong.

[sawbill]

I spent almost 2 hours trying to figure out why my new out of the box lights on my trailer wouldn't work with my Chev Silverado.

When I was working on them some gal walked by and said I don't have headlights either which was strange because I drove the truck around the block to make sure the signal lights worked. It turns out that my automatic headlights don't come on while the truck is in neutral and therefore my trailer lights don't come on either. The neighbors heard some new swear words that day!

[Bushmoose]

I spent almost 2 hours trying to figure out why my new out of the box lights on my trailer wouldn't work with my Chev Silverado.

When I was working on them some gal walked by and said I don't have headlights either which was strange because I drove the truck around the block to make sure the signal lights worked. It turns out that my automatic headlights don't come on while the truck is in neutral and therefore my trailer lights don't come on either. The neighbors heard some new swear words that day!

Reminds me of a time I was losing my mind as to why my trailer lights wouldn't work? I had rigged up a new/to me trailer with brand new lights. Screwed, scraped, sanded and wore my fingers to bone playing with the wiring. Tested the truck end and no juice? So I rip everything apart and start cutting into the truck wiring. Still no GD lights!!!! At some point, I thought I better ask someone who might possibly know more than I did? Doubtful, but worth a try? I shortly thereafter discovered that the truck had a dedicated circuit and FUSE to operate said trlr lights. The fuse was blown........

[scarkner]

Long story short hooked up the boat to the truck tonight, grounded the tounge to the trailer body as suggested hit the lights same problem. Both taillights blinking when i call for either left or right signal. Recheck the grounds on the trailer, check the truck ground/ harness all is good. Dissconnect the left turn ground from the left trailer light now i have signals and brake lights working on both lights, but no cleareance lights. Reconnect the ground and everything goes back to crap. RECHECK all connections again, all are good try it one more time. STILL CRAP. Sit back have a beer think about this, its not rocket science, WTH. Start the truck up its getting dark lights on the truck come on automatically/ auto mode look back trailer clearance are on. Check signals, brakes, hazards all are working fine. Unplug the lights trailer to truck reconnect about 5 tries no issues. Unhook the trailer Reconnect it to the truck no issues. I can't explain it. I'm lost, AS of right now all is working fine. Going to hookup tomorrow just to see what happens. Ant idea about this mystery guys. I' m stumped.

Sorry for not responding to you earlier Cuda. So with the truck running the lights work, but do they still work weird when the truck is not running... or has everything just started to work properly all of a sudden (problem solved, just don't know why it's solved?). Feel free to PM me, I used to work in the shop of a trailer dealership (Kingston Outdoor Centre) so have seen just about every trailer lighting problem at this point.

[Pat32rf]

BIL bought a new trailer to haul his tractor behind his 3 month old truck. Trailer dealer hooked everything up and installed yellow stickers. He made it about 60 km before the OPP pulled him over for no tail lights....Lucky he had all his receipts with him .

[Fishy Wishy]

Is it a tilt trailer?????