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I'm about to scream, my underbody neons have gone on the fritz AGAIN. I've lost track on how many times I've had to re-wire my underbody neons, but its been at least 10 times now.
What happens is when it rains, water gets into my connections and shorts the system.
Originally, I had the neons installed about 3 years ago by a local company that did a really bad job (only twisted the two wires together and wrapped some electrical tape around them). I got caught in a little slush & salt on the roads before the car went into storage and the connections started rusting. Thus the start of my problems.
Last August, I took apart all the connections and did it correctly by myself. I cut off all the rusted wire that I could find; saudered the connections back together using anti-corrosion sauder; used weather proof shrink-wrap around the connections; and wrapped more electrical tape around that. I even replaced the transformer because it burnt out due to all the electrical shorts.
My neons worked perfectly, and I was very proud of myself figuring I had done a great job (seeing as I was a novice in the electrical area). Anyways, last week we had a very heavy rain storm and my neons haven't worked since!
Did I do something wrong? Did I miss something? Should I of done something else? What am I missing here!?! Please help
I'm going crazy :crazy:
Thanks,
Darrell.
What happens is when it rains, water gets into my connections and shorts the system.
Originally, I had the neons installed about 3 years ago by a local company that did a really bad job (only twisted the two wires together and wrapped some electrical tape around them). I got caught in a little slush & salt on the roads before the car went into storage and the connections started rusting. Thus the start of my problems.
Last August, I took apart all the connections and did it correctly by myself. I cut off all the rusted wire that I could find; saudered the connections back together using anti-corrosion sauder; used weather proof shrink-wrap around the connections; and wrapped more electrical tape around that. I even replaced the transformer because it burnt out due to all the electrical shorts.
My neons worked perfectly, and I was very proud of myself figuring I had done a great job (seeing as I was a novice in the electrical area). Anyways, last week we had a very heavy rain storm and my neons haven't worked since!
Did I do something wrong? Did I miss something? Should I of done something else? What am I missing here!?! Please help
Thanks,
Darrell.