Hey All,

 

New member and first post.

 

Look a helpful and active site this !

 

I have fitted towbar just need to connect up the wiring now. Is there anywhere I can get a copy of the wiring diagram for the rear lighting ? 

 

Thanks all. 

 

It’s CAN lighting so do you have an appropriate interface/module?

Oh Dear.. CAN Lighting ? I was hoping to do this manually using a bypass and splicing into the correct wires. I bought the two bar and bypass online as a kit for the Octavia. 

 

Hope it is still useable ?

 

You can’t hack into modern lighting systems. 

3 hours ago, Tech1e said:

You can’t hack into modern lighting systems. 

 

For anyone who doesn't tow often, you could try my Heath-Robinson, cheap-skate solution.

 

Faced with this problem on a previous Ford, and unwilling to pay the exorbitant cost of the supplementary CAN relay/loom thingy for my infrequent use of a trailer, I made up a sort of wander-lead from stuff in my scrap-box at nil-cost: - it was wired into the trailer socket and lived, rolled-up, in the spare-wheel well. On the odd accasion when I towed, it was unrolled, through the boot, through the ski-flap up to the centre console at which point it goes into a small plastic box on which is mounted an on/off switch for the sidelights, a rocker switch for the indicators and a bell-push for the brake-lights; - the front end is plugged into the lighter socket. (The box incorporates a fuse, a flasher unit and led tell-tales). It sits in the recess by the gear-lever and is operated by my left hand. In practice, I mainly seem to use the indicators, very rarely the brake-lights and I have never needed the side-lights.

 

It was so effective that when I got the Octy I simply transferred it and have carried on using it for many years now. Simples!