Now not sure whats going on here, but this is the only car I've had where people seem to butcher the electrics.

 

My first zed seemed to have butchered front light electrics which caused a live feed problem to the head lights. so had to run a separate wire from one headlight live to the other to rectify the problem.

 

The second zed i had, also had a issue with electrics where the wing mirrors had been snipped at the mirror end.

 

third zed i owned has a problem where someone had wired in spot lights to the front bumper, with that much cable that by the time id removed it all and got the engine bay back to what it looked like, i could of rewired a 747 with what was left. not to mention a few random switches in the cabin that where hooked up to nothing lol

 

forth zed didn't matter as that was being broken

 

Now my current zed. wing mirrors didn't work, so looked at the fuse, all ok there. but upon removing the center gear stick surround to get to a wire i needed i found that the switch to the wing mirrors had just been chopped? the plug was still in the wing mirror adjustment switch, but it had just been cut?

 

also there was a switch down near the gear selector that i hadn't got a clue about, so i followed the wires that had been routed under all the arm rest trim, across the gap between the arm rest and the rear seat and into the boot. it then went around the ABS unit and under the plastic paneling. following this along bought me to a black wire earthed against the bodywork and the red wire from the switch leading down through a whole drilled into the boot floor of the car, underneath, there was just two wires dangling about under the car, that i can only assume was for the fog light that no longer was there.

 

Now strange thing is. its a UK spec car so already should have all the wiring for the rear fog light. (ill be checking this as i need to now wire in a new fog light some how)

 

Anyway ive removed all excess cabling. and have a back up wire for my rear fog off the breaker in case.

 

the other thing is. the screen thats installed covers over the radio loom, that has also been cut so short, that if ever i needed to plug a new normal stereo in, its going to be one big ass ball ache as ill have to rewire all the cables.

 

why do people butcher these cars electrical so much?

Both my zeds have been plagued with dodgy wiring. The first one had the internal looms hacked to bits and twisted together, my second had the EFI loom hacked up and was even using the spade type crimps as injector plugs! :scared:

 

Unfortunately a lot of cowboys seem to have done work on zeds in the past...