And the Muppet of the Week Award goes to...

[Kingster]

Me!

So this week I decided to tidy up the wiring while prepping for Aim Dash, DTA ECU and Savage Switches installation.

This involved lopping off a load of unused connections for such useless items as heaters, wipers, fans, analogue gauges, electric soft-tops etc (who needs such paltry items when an AeroScreen and Digi-dash does it all).

This left me with a bag of spare goodies...

But then I came to wire in my new switches and lights - and some just didn't work, like the brake warning and ignition lights.

After a lot of head scratching, I realised there was no power getting to them (rather than a duff connection or dodgy LED) - which equated to no ignition-on feed to the green wires.

First port of call = fuses. Nope, all good.

Then it was the bodged in DRLs I that used the (now defunct) heater circuit as a means to be on with ignition. Nope.

Then the fact that the ECU was not actually wired in yet and hence the fuel pump relay wasn't firing (and had a green wire going to it). Nope.

OK, maybe it was the fact that I hadn't connected the alternator yet. Nope.

Eventually it dawned on me that perhaps some of the green wires I had snipped off as part of the bag of connectors might be daisy chained and not Tee'd as I had assumed.

Oh yes. You muppet!

So undo all the neatly heat-shrunk and insulated ends I had added, connect the double-greens back up and daisy chain them again - bingo, we have power to the people!

[Terry Everall]

easily done