Watch the Electricity Cables in Your Car
By mor
@stringer321 (5644)
Kiryat Ata, Israel
October 16, 2020 7:03am CST
I took the car to the mechanic 3 hoirs ago. The problem was with many flashlifhts: two main beams and one dipped beam don't work, plus turn left , parking ...the mechanic just took some sort of a box with two wires come out of it, connected to a part I'm not sure what it is, and said there was a short circuit in a part called reley...never heard of it. He said a price 640 ILS. It sounded too much for me, I didn't take it and took the car back home. I told a neighbor about it and he looked with me, we foind a melted cable with exposed copper. Seems cheap. I will update later in two days.
If you have lights problem in the car, open the engine cover and look for melted wires, look at all of the wires where they have contact with something else. It can be a suspicious spot of melted plastic that leads to exposed copper.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 20
That is good, what do they check ? do they plug it into a computer that finds problems from sensors ?
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 20
@LadyDuck alright. that is good. Do they show you when something is wrong ?
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
16 Oct 20
@stringer321 They check everything, the cables, the tires, they change the oil.
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@msdivkar (23359)
• India
16 Oct 20
@stringer321 yes I agree but we hardly open the bonnet.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 20
Right, but at least we can see clear evidence for melted plastic on wires. If we can see things, we better check for them.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 20
@msdivkar this complexity is too much, I don't like it. -_-.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
30 Mar 21
Thank you very much. Me and my dad went to the car workshop and we saw the copper cables that leads to the lamps in some of the flashlights are exposed. We bought new flashlights and got them installed. It costs even more. The relay was not the problem as suggested the first car technician I went to.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
17 Oct 20
give it a try, just open the engine cover, look at the wires, sometimes there are spots where a wire touches something, maybe the wire has melted plastic there and the copper got exposed so you only need to repair that and not the thing that gets the wire electricity.
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@TheHorse (218828)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Oct 20
@stringer321 have checked and will check again. The mice had their fun with the wire casings when my truck lived on a ranch.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
17 Oct 20
Ok, now you can sometimes take a look and find defects before something happens. Don't just blindly trust the dealer.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
17 Oct 20
@stringer321 My husband is in charge of the cars, but he knows not to trust them totally.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
17 Oct 20
Thanks, it saves time and money. Too bad we got to learn this stuff when we need to fix the car and not before -_-
@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 20
I had no choice, main beams and dipped beam right don't work. I don't like taking my car to the garage, and I do it only if I have no choice. It is very expensive.
@shaggin (72131)
• United States
19 Oct 22
@stringer321 yep when my transmission went I decided it wasn’t worth the cost to repair on such an old vehicle.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
19 Oct 22
yes, we depend on mechanics sometimes. Do you remember any time when a car problem costed too much to fix ?
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
16 Oct 20
i hope yer neighbor 'tis able to help ya get 't fixed fer way cheaper, hon. those garages 're very spendy. gotta pay fer all that high-tech schoolin' required these days. too much computerized gadgets, poor quality parts. hope ya figured what melted that, sounds most dangerous.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 20
Not dangerous, but, at least I see what's wrong. I can talk to the mechanic later and ask him to just connect a new wire, or see what causes the wire to melt.
@everwonderwhy (7340)
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26 Oct 20
Interesting. And very important information. Thank you!
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
28 Oct 20
So far, that exposed wire was not even related to the lights, it belonged to the sensor that is in charge of the air amount, am not sure what the air is for...but a second mechanic showed me the wire going into the front light was also exposed. I saw that hitting the flashlight made it light up again. The connection is not stable and a few hits or even a kick can fix that.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 20
That's good, with some knowledge in car mechanics, he can save a lot of money on garage.
@happylife1 (13404)
• Karachi, Pakistan
16 Oct 20
Thanks for sharing your expert opinion
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 20
I'm not an expert, I will take the car again and see what the exact problem is. What I'm trying to say is that we need to have some basic understanding of car mechanics and electricity. Not hurry to say ok for what the mechanic says.
