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Location: Herrin Ill USA
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Why, Oh Why!?!?!?
I would like to beat the inventor of Scotch - Locks into a bloody pulp. The ONLY thing they are good for is to let people who have no business working on vehicle wiring, completely, and utterly, screw up a good wiring harness.
Whomever wired my Grand Cherokee for trailer connectors must have used a whole box of the things. And all they managed to do was let water wick up into the wires, and corrode them all to hell. Which in turn, blew out the Lamp Outage Module, and constantly made the Jeep beep, and tell me my rear lights were out. After working on it all day yesterday, I have all the lights working on the rear, fixed the Lamp Outage Module, have working flat 4 pin, and round 7 pin trailer plugs with trailer brakes, and made my own separate brake / turn flasher module with relays. Everything is soldered, and sealed with adhesive lined heat shrink tubing, and tied up out of the way. Why can't people just do it right the first time? Do little things like that just bug the heck out of anyone else? Or, am I just a whiney little ***** 
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06-05-2011, 06:29 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Adelaide South Australia
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Stupid people and stupid ideas bug me the most...
Things like... Buying something because it's cheap even though you have no use for it. Women leaving their husbands because they think they don't need them any more... Yea right that will work out... lol  But the biggest thing that bugs me is seeing young people with no sense of hope or optimism for the future. 
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The ridiculous part about that, is first, it's not hard to just make it up. Second, the factory trailer harness is usually available as a stand-alone. We bought one for our 2007 Jeep Wrangler, I think it was $70 or $80 (not cheap) but exactly factory and every connection/wire, etc., was perfect.
I've really seen some wiring horrors. The worse one was on my husband's 911 when we bought it. Some hoser had put a ridiculous stereo and some after-market alarm into the car. Several sections of the factory wiring harness had been spliced and were melted. Those sections got replaced with used harness bits, and the wretched stereo + ding-dong alarm got removed. Forever. Stupid should hurt. Meaning it should hurt the stupid person, not the rest of us. angela
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What province were you born in, Angela? 
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1984 Porsche Carrera
Eagle Talon TSi AWD
Chrysler 300 AWD Hemi
