the front over head clearance lights on the cabover shorted out. the previous owner had an issue where they lost the ground, and tied into a reading light inside the rv, coming home last week, I lost all the running lights, including the dash.
after ripping half the dash out, and determining it was a fuse issue, replaced the fuse, but bypassed the switch. this time the fuse didn't pop, but the wire in the wall that the guy used to bypass the ground issue caught on fire.
It was very close to me loosing it, If i hadn't been wearing a headlamp and looked back inside the rv, I would have never initially seen the smoke.
got it out in time but it was close.
long story short, I cut out his wiring, and did a bypass at the fixture itself, and its still shorting out, so apparently the hot side is also bad., so I am drilling straight through from the outside, and making a new harness to run along the inside.
it sucks, but the RV is old, anything else will require weeks of work.
I think the rv is trying to tell me something, last week one of the battery's almost went into thermal runaway before I caught that issue. Always something.
