No lights

[Burney]

Hi folks

 

I'm a new RH Exmo owner. Great fun had at back end of summer although as the darker nights approached I noticed my rear lights are not working but the headlights are.

Indicators are off too

Are these all on the same citcuit/fuse?

Hoping to play with this problem over my xmas hols

There are a number of other electrical issues for me to work through but lights are a badic requirement for me to enjpy safe road fun

Kris

[Dave Ed]

I’d say that checking the fuses are the first thing to do. I don’t know if you have a dedicated kitcar loom or if you’re using the old Sierra loom but if you have a blown fuse it should be easy to identify visually. 
Just make sure you have the correct rating fuse if it needs replacing.

Edited December 24, 2019 by Dave Ed

[nicko]

If all your rear lights are out, I'd check earth's and then continuity of each wire. 

HTH 

Nick 

[Burney]

Santa got me a 10m testing lead set and a 30A fuse to change the suspect

Hopefully shouldnt take long to fix weather been great here

[Burney]

Ok got indicators back on, loose plug behind the stalks

The loom for the lights is split into 3, left and right at the front and one to the rear.

I have brake lights but no rear running lights.

There are yellow feeds to the headlights and whites for main beam. I cant find a voltage supply in the rear loom when lights are switched on which will be my problem.

 

If I cant source where supply should come from would there be any issue taking a feed from the front light looms?

 

[alantoon]

The side lights are all on the same circuit and fuse so I would suspect a  faulty wire to the rear,  running a new wire to the rear shoiuld solve the problem but without finding the cause.

[Burney]

Cheers Alan, if I can get this sorted I might meet you on Sunday!

[phaeton]

Just as an aside, take out the bulbs & make sure they work & are not blown, once spent an hour tracing a fault on a friends car because I'm sure he had told me he'd checked the bulbs but he claimed he never said that!!

[kevin the chicken]

You were probably deaf after reversing for three miles 

[phaeton]

1 hour ago, kevin the chicken said:

You were probably deaf after reversing for three miles 

After measles at the age of 8 

[Burney]

Ok some good progress tracing the loom today. Found supplys to each rear light and one for rear running lights had no supply. I took one from the front headlights circuit and all good.

Reversing lights and foglights to sort next. And wiper motor and horn what a mess.

At least I can play out again now