Jon
I'm the same as Julian: there is a socket hanging down at the back right (for which apparently you can no longer get a plug). Whoever fitted my towbar simply cut and spliced into the wires but, as Julian says, there is no feed for the rear fog lamp.
I had to rewire it as it had been done so badly and, inevitably, all started to fall apart just as I was about to set off on a long trip with the trailer. If you have a multimeter + assistant it is a doddle to figure out which wire is which: I'm sorry, but it is so muddy under there that I can't see wire colours.
The wiring itself was easy, it was just the mud falling in my face that made it difficult! I'd recommend a good wash under there the night before.
I suppose an alternative would be to solder male spade terminals onto the end of the 7 core wires from the socket, push them into the right female holes on the plug (determined by multimeter) and then wrapping well with my favourite silage tape. I'd have done this if the butcher who originally wired it up hadn't cut the relevant wires to the plug.
Either way, it's not difficult apart from the rear fog lamp. If you want to include that you will have to take a feed from the existing lamps: on mine they are in the lower tailgate, you remove the carpet and then unscrew one of the hatches that gives access to the wiring plugs used during assembly & splice into there. I've worked it out, but been too lazy to do it since we haven't seen fog here for a year now - Julian may have found a better method though. But then your tailgate is probably different anyway.
Christopher Bell
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| I am sure a few months back Julian, in fitting a new tow
| hitch you were
| trying to splice the socket into the loom's spare connectors by the
| cross-member. Did you achieve it in the end or did you go
| through the floor
| up into the tool cubby and connect there I wonder ?
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| I am now swapping my NATO hitch for the swan neck ball, and
| fitting tow
| electrics for the first time.
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| Any views form other would naturally be very welcome, thanks all.
