I have a 98 coleman taos and it seems one of the brake lights is not working. I replaced the bulb with one that works and nothing. can you tell me how I can test for a short?

thanks

Normally it is always a gound issue. Take a separate wire and go to the frame and the ground wire or the grounding point on your light (exterior of the bulb holder) and see if it works. If it works, trace your ground wire(white if the wires are black and white- black if the wires or red and black) as it has lost ground at some point. If this does not work, check to see if you have 12v on the hot (black wire if white and black - red if red and black) wire. If you don't get 12 v on it, you need a multimeter, hook long wire to the plug up front, set the multi-meter on continuity, hook one probe to the wire going up front to the plug and the other to your hot wire at the light and check for continuity. If you don't have continuity there is a break in the wire. Time to trace it and see where the problem lies.
Any questions, you can call us.

When I first plugged in the lights to my vehicle and turned on the lights all rear lights came on. Then tried the brake and left would come, but not right, tried to ground the right with a separate wire, nothing. Tried checking voltage from right brake light, nothing. Was able to check continuity and that seems fine. wife said last time she followed the pup the lights would go on and off..

Since you had lights when you first turned it on, the lights are grounded and working. You need to now go to your vehicle cuz brake lights and blinkers is the same filament in the bulb. I would go to your vehicle and be sure it is working properly. What type of vehicle are your towing with ?? American made or Foreign and does it have a converter in it ?? I can get a better idea with these questions answered. Similar problem I dealt with indicated a bad converter.

Kevin

McDunnough , im going to have to agree with Kevin if you have a converter box that would be my guess, i have one that now all my marker lihts stay on all the time, and this is my 3rd diffrent issue out of 3 diffrent converters over the years. just my 2 cents

towing with a 1999 tacoma taos it has the 4 plug outlet under the bumper that I plug the TV plug into.

OK!! Bet it is the converter. The converter is normally behind the driver side tailight. Remove the tailight and go straight off the converter with a 12v test light and test the output. If you don't find the converter there, it will be somewhere around the back end with four wires going in and three going out. I guess you may want to check the back end first before removing the tailight to locate the converter. Let me know what you find out.

Kevin

thanks for all your help. I traced the wires and it looks like they do go up int the frame on the side. will remove the taillight and check for a converter. thanks again.

looks like I have another problem. Door is dry rotted. Screws fell out while I was closing it today coming back from Bristol.
wonder if I bring it to ScenicRoads if you guys can repair it in a day?

I will call today on a price of a new door and let you know this evening. It could be drop shipped to you and you can easily install a new one.

If the price is too exorbitant, we can make repairs to the door. Would be great if you could email a pic of your door to kevin@scenicroadsrv.com and that way I can see what I might need for the repair and have it on hand when you arrive so you can take it back home with you.

You can also call me at work 931-723-1501.

Kevin

The door will be over 220 bucks......ouch .

It really is not that hard to rebuild. The materials is not much, its is the labor that gets you. You drill out the Pop Rivets and seperate the door, then rebuild the frame and rivet it back together. We can do it for you if you do not want to tackle it yourself.

I will do it for $100.00 Just cause your a Camp TN Friend

Kevin

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Kim

deal! When would be a good time for me to drop it off?

You can drop it off any time Tues - Sat from 9:00 until 5:00. Next week is going to be busy getting ready for the RV show but next Thursday before the acutal show starts, I can get it knocked out for you. All I really need is the door. If you can drop it off tommorow, I might be able to work it in Friday sometime.

If you would rather wait on me to fix it and take it back with you, just give me a call tomorrow and we can work something out where you can do this. It will take probably a couple of hours.

Let me know.

Kevin

will try and drop it off one day this week. thanks.