aux lights

Hi All

I know this has been covered at length before on various threads, but I seem to have an odd one here on my 2000 Millenium. Car has the geniune land rover aux driving lights kit with the proper loom, I have taken pasrt of this out following the instructions on Dicovery2.co.uk, fitted the fused relay and wired it up all fine, so far so good, except the aux lights don't work. Fired a 12V feed from battery to the trigger terminal on the relay and bingo the lights work fine, so obviously the issue is with the blue/orange trigger wire that goes into terminal 86 of the relay.
Next step, I've removed the plastic panel above the driverside headlight and lo and behold the blue/orange trigger leads come out here, except it is spliced into a slightly thicker blue /orange lead, but this then goes into a double connector block that simply loops 3 wires into each other:
blue/orange to blue/orange
blue to blue
black to black (one of these blacks has burnt badly)
The net result is the blu/ornage lead that should trigger the relay for the aux lights is not actually connected to anything - where should this be connected to? This odd connector block confuses me, doesn't seemt o do a thing. Any help appreciated.
On the plus side, managed to change the air springs and fit cruise control yesterday, what a great car to work on!
cheers
Fraser

Hello Again, just thought a photo of the offending part might be helpful, please see attcahed. The blue/orange fly lead from the connector is, I suspect, the +12V trigger for the aux Lights and the other end should be connected to the realy, but I've no idea why its in this connector, which appears to do nothing really. I'm no electrician, so any advice as to where this blue/orange cable should be connected at this end (behind the drivers headlight), or indeed if this connector block is right, could be part of the wiring harness in the geniune aux lights package.
Thanks, Fraser

Fyule said:

Hello Again, just thought a photo of the offending part might be helpful, please see attcahed. The blue/orange fly lead from the connector is, I suspect, the +12V trigger for the aux Lights and the other end should be connected to the realy, but I've no idea why its in this connector, which appears to do nothing really. I'm no electrician, so any advice as to where this blue/orange cable should be connected at this end (behind the drivers headlight), or indeed if this connector block is right, could be part of the wiring harness in the geniune aux lights package.
Thanks, Fraser

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If you pull that connector apart, you'll see that it's the original female H4 headlamp connector, with a counterpart male connector that 'intercepts' the main beam on the driver's side and uses that to trigger the auxiliary lamps, there's also a new short loom to a new H4 headlamp connector for the driver's side.

This is part of the Genuine Land Rover Kit and, IMHO, is a crap way of picking-up the main beam trigger.

I prefer to take mine from the Blue/White wire at the back of the dip/main light switch, or at the passenger compartment fuse box, where it splits into left and right circuits.

To fix that dodgy connector, I would cut the wires and either, replace them with a new SEALED 3-way connector (AMP Econoseal), or solder and heat-shrink the individual wires together-

Black to Black

Blue to Blue

Blue/Orange to Blue/Orange


OR - you could put on a new H4 connector for the driver's side headlamp and take your auxiliary light trigger from the column switch or passenger compartment fuse box.

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Thanks for that Paul, I think I will take the trigger from the blue/white at the dip/main switch as suggested, seems a far more sensible and reliable way of doing things.
Cheers, fraser