just finishing off the wiring on my car and every thing works fine untill you press the hazzard lights button and my fuel pump goes on and off with the lights lol what a cock up
Doh !
You mean it isn't meant to???????
wiring??????
hazard lights!
fuel!
new i'd forgotten something!
lol
my favorite was on a sierra i was working on (my girlfriends) had just replacent the engine, reassembled everyhting and was about to test drive the
thing - put the indicators on and they didnt come on - thought ahh must have blown a fuse, checks the fuses and sure enough a couple blown fuses,
replace them and the hazards work, brilliant its sorted, goes to indicate left, and it stops the indicators again, so im pretty pissed , start tracing
through the wiring, totally strip out the dash again, have undone all the insulation on the wiring loom all the way back from the rear cluster to the
indicator stalk, no breakage, so trace the engine bay left side repeater, no proble,, so do the same for the front left - no problem
replace the fuse again and it still blows
alll earths are secure, so im really confused, i then go and get a spare stalk i have lieing around, and it fixes it straight away
i ended up spending 2 days tracing a non existant wiring problem, the switch was fubared 
I once saw a guy who was trying to install a stereo in his tin top, basically he rummaged under the dash for a wire with 12v on it then spliced into
it!!! somehow he managed to get it so that when he switched on the stereo the engine started and the headlights pulsed in time to the music
And he was an apprentice avionics technician.. now thats scary!
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Originally posted by DaveFJ
I once saw a guy who was trying to install a stereo in his tin top, basically he rummaged under the dash for a wire with 12v on it then spliced into it!!! somehow he managed to get it so that when he switched on the stereo the engine started and the headlights pulsed in time to the music
And he was an apprentice avionics technician.. now thats scary!
many years agon when I put back the engine in my MGB I realised I forgot to attach the engine earth strap after the plastic on the accelerator cable
started to smoke
Ok, I'll admit it, My wiring sucks!!
At Newark, after replacing the water pump on Rolands car, he asked me to turn the ignition off. Whilst reaching for the key, I caught the horn button.
Didn't think anything of it until i pulled the keys out of the ignition and the engine was still running!
This had us foxed for hours, we even drove home, unable to stop the engine without removing the bonnet.
Turns out, we (I) wired the windscreen washers as the horn. The wiper stalk also pulls forward on the Sierra. This is what I had caught when reaching
for the keys. Unfortunately, in this position, a live is fed back to the ignition switch circuit, effectively giving us 2 ignition switches!
Oh well, it still runs