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Originally Posted by trikey
Scotch locks are the devils tool, put them in the bin!
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Oh how true, I remember fitting a pair of seven pin electrics to a big Ford along with a set of parking sensors. It was in the Highland games field in Callander at a classic car club weekend meet.
The owner of the car was taking lots of photos and notes on what I was doing. He was very surprised by me writing down all the colours of the wires in the cars wiring loom and in the light clusters themselves. He was very surprised that the loom colours did not correspond to the cluster colours.
He was shocked when I cut the wires in the loom that I wanted access to then surprised when I tinned the ends of the bare ends of the cut wires and slid colour coded heat shrink up the cables. I then proceeded to run the switching relay cables into the three way joints in the loom then slide the heat shrink into place. He had never seen anyone solder wires he had only ever seen scotch locks being used. I explained that the method I used was permanent and guaranteed a good connection. I have to confess it has taken as long to type this as it does to do the job. When I had finished, I gave him a typed copy of the work I had done along with the fuse ratings for the new supply cables and a wiring diagram of the cars loom and the cars light clusters.
I had to extend the sounder cables on the audible sounder for his parking sensors so I could mount it at the front of the car under the dash board. He was a very happy man when I had finished. He could not understand why I had only charged him £13-50 for the parking sensors and £21 for the black and grey sockets and bypass relay. As his garage had fitted his last cars towing sockets and had charged over £150 for the job. Also they had used the dreaded blue crush blocks.
He had trouble understanding that fellow club members were more than welcome to a few hours of my time.
Everyone please take note scotch locks are a bad connection waiting to happen. Also there many club members who are happy to give their time to help other members at club meetings. Either that or they will talk you through a job.
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