HI All

I have a defender 90 hard top, 1999 TD5. Last week whie driving down the motorway i noticed the rear fog lamp indicator kept coming on whenever i braked ! thought it must be a fault earth somewhere and didn't give it much thought. Then when i got home i switched off the wagon and the stop lights and fog lights stayed on !! i pulled out fuses on by one and found the trailer fuse under the drivers seat was the problem. Over the weekend i traced the fault to a pink wire burnt out and had burnt off the insultaion off a few other wires causing the problem. I fixed the wires using crimp connectors and all s fine again, I looked through the Haynes manual to see what circuit the pink wire feeds as it must have earthed soemwhere to cause the probelm but can not find in the book - Anyone know what feed the pink wire is in the loom by the trailer connector ?

think it could be wiper park, mine did this at rear and the side lights wouldn't go out as I had a big melted mess

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ok thanks for that i'll have a look at it tomorrow, dont want it to burn out again and cause more hastle.

check behind rear lights under rubber flaps, body saws into loom if not got black trim piece fitted-or it's moved.
Mine one hell of a mess and all that didn't work was rear wiper- didn't blow a single fuse but sidelights stayed on.