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<blockquote data-quote="ricky_rascal" data-source="post: 7859017" data-attributes="member: 29432"><p>You might! I would include any of current crop of pickups though. A fella had a trailer on his 17 plate Hilux invincible and fused the lights. He was miles from home and it was going dark. Couldn’t find the fuses so as was in the AA (I think it was AA he said) and Toyota garage down the road was shutting and had no interest in helping. Anyway many days later after he eventually got through to AA and gone through all the covid concerns they would send someone out. Some time later rescue van rocked up and announced he could not deal with trailers. He set too taking near side plastic door sill trim off then joining plastic kick panel trim and eventually got to the fuse box in cab by pulling glove box and surrounding trim. At this point he announced he didn’t have any of the mini blade fuses most vehicles use these days. Toyota didn’t seem to have any spares mounted in fuse box. So with persuasion he robbed a fuse off something not required to get home and chucked all plastic trim onto back seat. All the way home the Toyota flashed and beeped that he was going to die because a fuse had been pulled. Don’t know which fuse they actually robbed but next day local tyre/garage repairs outfit sorted it and put cab back together. </p><p></p><p>So why some seem to bury fuse box well out of the way making access a pig in the dark I dunno. I’ve not actually checked myself and there may be a simpler way of accessing it - by simply pulling glove box out? He thinks the lights fused having to reverse trailer away from his customer and turning trailer sharp in doing so maybe putting pressure on plug. I checked plug on trailer and socket and couldn’t find anything that might short. My livestock trailer used to fuse half of side lights and some of trailer lightd when turned sharp right. Checked wiring and never found a fault. It was simple to change fuse in box under bonnet. Did it a few times then never did it any more. Pretty much the same with the flat trailer and Hilux. It hasn’t done it again.</p><p></p><p>I thought about joining the que for a new Hilux earlier this year but local Toyota rep had zero interest in having a demo. I could if I wanted, have a look at one in the showroom. Snarkily I said why not draw me some pictures of one and put it in the post <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" /> I’m in the queue for a new d max sometime next year, mainly because of strong money offered by webuyanyvan. That said I’ll have to see what finances are like come the time. Can’t fault my current d max really though in last year of warranty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ricky_rascal, post: 7859017, member: 29432"] You might! I would include any of current crop of pickups though. A fella had a trailer on his 17 plate Hilux invincible and fused the lights. He was miles from home and it was going dark. Couldn’t find the fuses so as was in the AA (I think it was AA he said) and Toyota garage down the road was shutting and had no interest in helping. Anyway many days later after he eventually got through to AA and gone through all the covid concerns they would send someone out. Some time later rescue van rocked up and announced he could not deal with trailers. He set too taking near side plastic door sill trim off then joining plastic kick panel trim and eventually got to the fuse box in cab by pulling glove box and surrounding trim. At this point he announced he didn’t have any of the mini blade fuses most vehicles use these days. Toyota didn’t seem to have any spares mounted in fuse box. So with persuasion he robbed a fuse off something not required to get home and chucked all plastic trim onto back seat. All the way home the Toyota flashed and beeped that he was going to die because a fuse had been pulled. Don’t know which fuse they actually robbed but next day local tyre/garage repairs outfit sorted it and put cab back together. So why some seem to bury fuse box well out of the way making access a pig in the dark I dunno. I’ve not actually checked myself and there may be a simpler way of accessing it - by simply pulling glove box out? He thinks the lights fused having to reverse trailer away from his customer and turning trailer sharp in doing so maybe putting pressure on plug. I checked plug on trailer and socket and couldn’t find anything that might short. My livestock trailer used to fuse half of side lights and some of trailer lightd when turned sharp right. Checked wiring and never found a fault. It was simple to change fuse in box under bonnet. Did it a few times then never did it any more. Pretty much the same with the flat trailer and Hilux. It hasn’t done it again. I thought about joining the que for a new Hilux earlier this year but local Toyota rep had zero interest in having a demo. I could if I wanted, have a look at one in the showroom. Snarkily I said why not draw me some pictures of one and put it in the post 🙄 I’m in the queue for a new d max sometime next year, mainly because of strong money offered by webuyanyvan. That said I’ll have to see what finances are like come the time. Can’t fault my current d max really though in last year of warranty. [/QUOTE]
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