HammaMan
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I've had this platinum door harness about 2 years. I've taken various parts here and there to incorporate into my truck with great success but at the cost of a bit work. I decided to finally tear into it a little more, the tape can be a bear to fully take off. I had to share this because, frankly, it's disgusting. These photos are what was under that pretty tape.
The photos below are from this specific spot in the door harness....
Inside of this section is where they hide the excess wire for this part of the harness, folding them back on top of themselves, quite tightly bundled. There's a lot of wires here so I've tried to open the folds a little bit to show you a little better on the state of the wires. Do keep in mind, this is typically all tightly bound with harness tape so folds were real tight.
This is the camera's coax folded back over on itself. So much for minimum bend radius.
So to anyone in the future who has a device, especially a camera malfunction or has intermittent errors or funny stuff happen, and replacing a part didn't solve the issue / no other obvious causes (chafing, rodent, etc...), the issue probably resides in one of the harnesses. While initially this type of craftsmanship won't necessarily have an immediate failure, eventually there's going to be one bump in the road too many and a failure will occur. Just because a harness can appear to be in an okay condition, understand that there are very obvious stress points baked into it from the factory. Most of the wires have acceptable bends in them, but a few of them almost look like they were deliberately creased. There are these types of folds throughout the harness itself, this is easily the worst I've seen.
The photos below are from this specific spot in the door harness....
Inside of this section is where they hide the excess wire for this part of the harness, folding them back on top of themselves, quite tightly bundled. There's a lot of wires here so I've tried to open the folds a little bit to show you a little better on the state of the wires. Do keep in mind, this is typically all tightly bound with harness tape so folds were real tight.
This is the camera's coax folded back over on itself. So much for minimum bend radius.
So to anyone in the future who has a device, especially a camera malfunction or has intermittent errors or funny stuff happen, and replacing a part didn't solve the issue / no other obvious causes (chafing, rodent, etc...), the issue probably resides in one of the harnesses. While initially this type of craftsmanship won't necessarily have an immediate failure, eventually there's going to be one bump in the road too many and a failure will occur. Just because a harness can appear to be in an okay condition, understand that there are very obvious stress points baked into it from the factory. Most of the wires have acceptable bends in them, but a few of them almost look like they were deliberately creased. There are these types of folds throughout the harness itself, this is easily the worst I've seen.
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