Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails

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Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails - ZTWsquared - 06-28-2008

So about a year ago I bought a set of Euro tails for the wagon - bought them from a reputable UK company that is well known to FC.net members ... anyway, I guess it was my misunderstanding but I thought I also bought the connectors to go with them - apparently not.

I've emailed the seller about 3 times with no answer, and I've emailed Ford dealerships, wrecking yards, electronics suppliers, ebay sellers etc ... anyone in the UK I thought might be able to help ... so far, not one reply.

I pride myself on being pretty good at sourcing stuff but this has me stumped ... and maybe I should have posted here first, but does anyone have the connectors for Euro tails to sell ... or know where I could buy them?

TIA - Ken.

This is a pic of the connector on the light side.
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Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails - j3rt - 06-28-2008

do you know the pin out? if it's only lights you could find out easily enough.
Anyways, any electrical supply should have stak-ons to connect onto those pins, throw some heatshrink over them so they don't ever short out on each other. Should do the trick.

Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails - ZTWsquared - 06-28-2008

j3rt,Jun 27 2008, 01:22 PM Wrote:do you know the pin out?  if it's only lights you could find out easily enough.
Anyways, any electrical supply should have stak-ons to connect onto those pins, throw some heatshrink over them so they don't ever short out on each other.  Should do the trick.
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Thanks Jeremy - yes I can figure out the pins no problem ... what are stak ons and any idea where I can get them ... I've tried pushing various connectors onto those pins, but they're so close together I couldn't do it.

Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails - castone - 06-28-2008

if you dont mind searching, i found a few different pigtails for my car here

http://www.motorcraft.com

http://www.motorcraft.com/products.do?item=23

http://www.motorcraft.com/pdf/Wiring_Pigtails_Catalog.pdf

hope this helps

Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails - Frost__2001 - 06-28-2008

I know how to solve this problem without going sodering the wires directly to the light bulb boards.

Do you have a 3 stage sedan wiring harness? - it makes it a lot easier to wire up the tail lights. I did the plug method with scrap wiring ends from wreaked focus's, it's just a matter of time to plug and play when setting them up.

Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails - ZTWsquared - 06-28-2008

Frost__2001,Jun 27 2008, 04:21 PM Wrote:I know how to solve this problem without going sodering the wires directly to the light bulb boards.

Do you have a 3 stage sedan wiring harness? - it makes it a lot easier to wire up the tail lights. I did the plug method with scrap wiring ends from wreaked focus's, it's just a matter of time to plug and play when setting them up.
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Thanks Philip ... yes I have the Focus 3-stage wiring harness so I've got that part figured out (connecting to the car side...

what I need to do now is modify that harness with the Euro specific plug / connector for the "bulb" side which is the connector pictured above ... it's entirely different than the NA plug on the wagon - and yes I've checked the Motorcraft pigtail catalogue and even called them ... no joy from them.

Maybe I'll try modifying the fitting with NA bulb holders.

Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails - mo_focus - 06-28-2008

have you tired using just a regular very small connectors like these?
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just use a heat shrink tubing to cover them up once you are done with the wiring. (that way they will not spark when they are tocuhing) [Image: d_10998.gif]

I had to use a similar system for the Escape headlight retro fit and its been working for the past 13 months.

Wtb - Wiring Pigtail For Euro Tails - Frost__2001 - 06-29-2008

lol mo I did that with my Euro tail lights and 2+ years later the still work fine, though I didn't add the plastic clips, as everything in there is snug with the oem ford connecters.

I can do the the work for you I'd need the harness for one night to strip it back and a light blub board to get the right size for connecter to plug and play with it, and mark it all up, I have all the things I need to set it up, it would take be about an hour to re-install the harness and plug and play with it, to finish it. that is if you want to go that route Ken.

of course, for the rear foglight I don't know how you'd want to set that up, you can either have it as a back up light or hooked up to an independent switch.. that being the case, I'd leave that slot empty on the one side with a loose wire in there not hooked up to anything so you could hook it up later on.