Re-wiring

[morebeanz]

I know a number of you have done full or majority restorations on your Cerbs, but a lot of the forum posts focus mainly on chassis re-furbs and suspension fettling, etc. Did you re-wire or rebuild the loom too?

Has anyone re-wired without a restoration?

If you did, did you notice any real difference, and what did you modify over the standard set up?

Interested to know, given the weakness that TVR wiring tends to be...

[Tanguero]

When I refurbished the interior I didn't do a rewire as such, but I did replace the speaker cables, add a loom for an in car PC & DIN touch screen (with direct connection to the ECU), add fog lamp repeated in the high-beam warning light, and most importantly undid, cleaned and reassembled every earth point and connection plug that I could find.

I don't think that the Cerbera wiring loom is problematic as such. What is more of an issue is that a lot of the connector plugs arent great quality and are getting old. Earthing points are critical as being a GRP body as they form the only return circuits. Most electrical gremlins can be tracked down to one or other of these issues (steering wheel ribon cable being the exception).

[morebeanz]

What about the whole 100 amp fuse saga though, and the issue of headlight power? Wouldn't it be appropriate to revise that?

Or do you think it really is just a "connection" issue?

[gcpeters]

My HIDS are wired directly to the battery

GP

[Tanguero]

morebeanz said:

What about the whole 100 amp fuse saga though, and the issue of headlight power? Wouldn't it be appropriate to revise that?

Or do you think it really is just a "connection" issue?

I was thinking more of the internal wiring - doors, mirrors accessories etc

My HIDs are wired straight to the battery too. Directly powering headlights and using the existing wiring to switch a realy instead is always a worthwhile modification, especialy given the propensity for the lighting control box in the boot to overheat the feed terminal.

Personaly I never had a 100 Amp fuse problem, but I think a lot of problems stem from the design of he fuse and holder. There are other types of fuse available that might be a worthwhile upgrade if you have trouble.

[morebeanz]

Thanks for the input. I was just curious that in all the stories of re-builds, etc, wiring didn't feature strongly, and yet I "perceived" that there was an issue there.

[Steve_T]

Ian, in addition to the headlight wiring direct from the battery (done this and never a problem since), I'd also get the door buttons and door connectors swapped out with something a little more waterproof (superseal connectors for instance). Other than that check all the earth points/straps and maybe swap out the starter cable.

[morebeanz]

Steve_T said:

Ian, in addition to the headlight wiring direct from the battery (done this and never a problem since), I'd also get the door buttons and door connectors swapped out with something a little more waterproof (superseal connectors for instance). Other than that check all the earth points/straps and maybe swap out the starter cable.

Thanks, Steve.

I don't have a problem at the moment, so don't get the wrong idea, but I am compiling my list of stuff that I would do when I have the chance!

Hopefully see you at the next meet...