Thruxton Diary Of A Thruxton 900 Owner

Will try and give it a go tomorrow. Cheers Crispey. I’d seen a video on YouTube of the brake lights flashing on a car when the earth wire was removed which is what made me look for it on this tail light.

There are 3 wires coming out of the light itself but they all run into the connector that attaches to the bike. With 2 separate connectors each side for the indicators.

 

Just tried this and made no difference

 

Checked all connections and couldn't see anything that would cause an issue, sprayed contact cleaner on the the tail loom in the bike and on the loom for the LED tail light but still no luck. Took the LED tail light apart and looked ok inside, it's literally just a circuit board with 3 wires soldered to it surrounded by LEDs. Coupe of the soldered connections on the board perhaps (I'm clinging at straws) had some tiny black spots on them so gave that a clean and sprayed it. Tried again but still the issue persists.

Popped the standard tail light from my tail tidy set back in to see if the issue occurs with that on but nope that works perfectly.

Don't know what else to try so I'm sending the LED tail light back. Undecided whether to go for a replacement or get my money back.

 

Thanks. It’s boxed and ready to go but I’ll hold off posting it for now. There’s only one place the tail light can connect to on the bike so I’m not sure what’s up. If the standard tail light works fine with indicators on yet the LED one doesn’t then it must be an iffy unit.

And yeah I’ve returned stuff to squaredeals before and they’ve been fine about it. Actually last time they said keep the part and still sent out a replacement

I’m going to replace the indicators as well I’ve decided. The ones that came with the tail today look nice but you can’t see them flash if you’re side on from the bike. So a set with more of a lens is in order.

 

I've gone for these - http://www.squaredeals-ltd.co.uk/bo...k-3-lens-colour-options-el01-097b-27828-p.asp

 

Ta Crispey Something like this? Forgive the crappy diagram.



Or just cut the 3 wires coming out the tail light and pop bullet connectors on them. Then connect to the old harness that came with the tail tidy?

 

I thought the indicators and the tail light were on serperate circuits. Or would that not matter?

 

Thing is the ones for the indicators (yes they are male connectors) those are what I bought these interconnects for:


Then the left/right indicators plug into those. But as the tail light flashes even when the rear indicators aren't connected at all, it can't be an indicator issue surely? So I can't see how changing this connection for bullet ones would make a difference.

I think the issue has to be with the tail lamp connector. Shown as 1 on the diagram. Unless I'm wrong your LED tail light doesn't have that connection for the 3 tail light wires, it just has bullet connections?



Squaredeals have said they're fine with me returning it, but I'd also like to work this one out ..

 

Did you have the flashing tail light problem which is the issue I’m having?

I have interconnectors for the square connectors on the indicators that changes them to bullet so that’s not a problem.

But I think the issue lies with the plug and play harness for the tail light and perhaps these need swapping out for bullet connectors.

 

Na I need to get a multimeter.