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Jim
Jun 29, 2018Explorer
Heard weird sparking/shorting noises over my head in an over dinette cabinet where my electric CB panel was in my '94 Bounder one day in 2014. After the smoke cleared, I discovered that the idiots at the factory must have run out of the correct sized wire nuts when they wired it all up and they decided it would be ok to use a handful of wire nuts that were too small. Two of them had eventually bounced off the twisted wires over the years and a 'hot' wire had eventually shorted to the metal case. Causing an arc fed fire...whoa. Lucky I was right there at the time and have some electrical skills so after several hours of repair work and wire dressing, all was well. Better than new actually.
In my current '02 Journey, was under the dash yesterday and boy, what a freakin' wiring mess. Not looking forward to having to 'dress' the wiring under there. Probably won't ever get to it.
So far though, all the AC wiring I've inspected in this rig has looked pretty nice. Competently done.
Thanks for the warning though. Never hurts to inspect.
In my current '02 Journey, was under the dash yesterday and boy, what a freakin' wiring mess. Not looking forward to having to 'dress' the wiring under there. Probably won't ever get to it.
So far though, all the AC wiring I've inspected in this rig has looked pretty nice. Competently done.
Thanks for the warning though. Never hurts to inspect.
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