Hi,
Had a Hayman Reece Towbar and trailer light connection socket fitted to my NS Exceed in Qld (organised by the Pajero dealer when vehicle delivered).
All lights checked OK on a short test, then set off for Melbourne towing the caravan.
That evening I turned tail lights on, which turns on caravan tail and clearance lights. Then, after about 1 minute, all caravan lights turned off and stayed off. I turned Pajero lights off for 5 minutes, then on again which enabled the caravan lights. Once again, they switched off after about 1 minute.
I suspected an overload due to the extra caravan lights tripping an auto-reset relay or some other protection device in the Pajero.
The total wattage of the caravan lights is approximately 80 watts (about 6 Amp draw).
On arrival in Melbourne, I contacted Hayman Reece and they sent me to one of their authorised installers. The installers advised they have this problem with Mercedes Benz and BMW!
Cutting a long story short, they fitted a 40A relay enabled by the Pajero tail lights and a heavy source of 12V power taken from the Cigarette lighter 12V socket in the rear compartment. Cost me about $150. All now works fine.
I consider this to be a jerry-rig fix (although quite suitable for the purpose).
Surely Pajero has a suitable trailer light source take-off point that can carry the 12V load of a caravan??
Can anyone offer some comment or advice on this.
(incidentally, this is the 2nd time I have tried to send this post - hope it doesn't turn up twice....)
Best regards, Fred
Had a Hayman Reece Towbar and trailer light connection socket fitted to my NS Exceed in Qld (organised by the Pajero dealer when vehicle delivered).
All lights checked OK on a short test, then set off for Melbourne towing the caravan.
That evening I turned tail lights on, which turns on caravan tail and clearance lights. Then, after about 1 minute, all caravan lights turned off and stayed off. I turned Pajero lights off for 5 minutes, then on again which enabled the caravan lights. Once again, they switched off after about 1 minute.
I suspected an overload due to the extra caravan lights tripping an auto-reset relay or some other protection device in the Pajero.
The total wattage of the caravan lights is approximately 80 watts (about 6 Amp draw).
On arrival in Melbourne, I contacted Hayman Reece and they sent me to one of their authorised installers. The installers advised they have this problem with Mercedes Benz and BMW!
Cutting a long story short, they fitted a 40A relay enabled by the Pajero tail lights and a heavy source of 12V power taken from the Cigarette lighter 12V socket in the rear compartment. Cost me about $150. All now works fine.
I consider this to be a jerry-rig fix (although quite suitable for the purpose).
Surely Pajero has a suitable trailer light source take-off point that can carry the 12V load of a caravan??
Can anyone offer some comment or advice on this.
(incidentally, this is the 2nd time I have tried to send this post - hope it doesn't turn up twice....)
Best regards, Fred
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