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Fitting single electrics to a towball.
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This is their wiring kit:
www.towbars-uk.co.uk/product/26/standard-single-electric-kit
Will this be an easy enough thing to fit and is there a better one I should consider?
While I'm at it this is the tow bar and ball, what do you think?
www.towbars-uk.co.uk/product/7055/suzuki-jimny-
www.towbars-uk.co.uk/product/46/3.5-tonne-ball-and-pin-
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Hope this helps.
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I leave the ball&pin inside the car, with just the jaws on the towbar, and it saves obstructing the number plate.
I certainly wouldn't pay £40 for one.
The electric kit is a good buy, I paid more than that for the cable and a mounting plate for the spare socket I had in the garage.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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Black Jimny's don't get stuck!
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I think next time I've got a chance I'll pop into The Range and see what theirs is like and then try fitting that first before I even get the towbar TBH.
Just going to have a go at changing my bulbs for some brighter ones. I'm quite the novice at working on cars... Show me a push bike and I can fix anything but this is scarey and new :O
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I have only ever seen this in classic cars I have messed with in the past so your talking about 20 odd years down the line and I doubt my Jimny will still be about then
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The wiring goed though the rubber duct into the body and then is routed out of sight.
I use a 1 Meter coiled extension to attatch to a trailer.
This keeps the electrics clear of 90% of the water we go wading though
Former owner of Little "Ooky", who has now started a new life in Shetland
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Scratched knuckles,rusty bolts, broken trim clips are inevitable, wonder why no one has invented a wireless version??
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Johnniehec wrote: I fitted mine same as srcars but at the other side. It's a pig of a job, instructions/guide and wiring diagram here,
www.bigjimny.com/images/documents/jimny_towbar_install.pdf
Scratched knuckles,rusty bolts, broken trim clips are inevitable, wonder why no one has invented a wireless version??
John.
Yes I fitted mine on the wrong side really, I read the article on fitting a towbar months before I fitted the socket and for some reason thought the electrics were on the offside. I ended up removing the whole of the rear interior instead of half of it
Fitting socket 10-15 mins, removing and reinstalling interior seemed like an hour
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