Front fogs problem

[pipamish]

Morning all just wondered if there was someone out there that could help me with a slightly annoying problem, a while back my left hand side fog light seemed to have a connection fault and kept throwing up a message on my screen check fog lamp, now my other fog is doing it and they both Wong work at all now unless I wiggle the wire and tap the connectors a bit but I have the bulb out on my dash and its annoying the bejesus out of me I have the extender wire harness for fogs because I have the vxr front end any help will be greatly appreciated or even if there was a way I could just get rid of bulb warning for now

[Caveman_nige]

Mine did this, it was the wire from the car to the extender, it was corroded through just behind the plug. I soldered it together for now but will snip a plug with some length of wires from a scrappy car.

[pipamish]

I think it's my actual extenders though Nige if I wiggle the connector that's attached to the bulb they come on then go out

[Caveman_nige]

Yeah mine did that as well but it sas the wire behind the plug that was at fault. Jack it up and hae a closer look mate.

[Grumpy1954]

Hope you get it sorted. have you run a meter over the wiring to trace the bad connection? As above, I'd solder the bad joint

[pipamish]

I have no tools at all to do any kind of work to my car apart from the odd screw driver I will buy 2 new harnesses tomorrow and hope that fixes it, the whole car at the moment is irritating the hell out of me

[Grumpy1954]

I have no tools at all to do any kind of work to my car apart from the odd screw driver I will buy 2 new harnesses tomorrow and hope that fixes it, the whole car at the moment is irritating the hell out of me

Pity the weather so crappy, I have a meter and butane soldering iron. Chances are the new harnesses will sort it, just check the plugs you're connecting them to are not corroded.

[pipamish]

I have checked the plugs and there is no corrosion on the terminals they are still silver will buy some more harnesses to see if it cures the problem

[Caveman_nige]

a multimeter is cheaper than the new wires mate... buy one of them first and you may save your money by buying a part you don't need. you can use the multimeter many times over in the coming years... chucking money at something and just changing parts until one fixes the issue is the stealers way of doing things, we here to help you save money..

[pipamish]

Thanks guys so can I buy a multi meter from somewhere like machine Mart