What a mess. I'm referring mainly to those Scotchlocks wire taps. Whoever wired that is no electrician. If I find those on any vehicle I acquire first thing to do is remove and replace with proper soldered and shrink wrapped connections and repair the damaged wires. Those things damage the wires, create more impedence so they can't carry the current they were designed to, allow moisture and air into the connection for corrosion, and introduce galvanic corrosion through current passing through dissimilar metals. The guy who invented those should be shot. After torture. I bought a U-Haul trailer hitch for my Exploder back in '96 and they insisted on installing it. The installer got out those Scotchlocks and damaged the wire on the first connection. I was watching, had looked away for a minute then saw what he was doing. YELLED at him for damaging my wires. Gave me the deer-in-headlights look, not understanding what is the problem. Ignoramus. I bought a Timeout trailer from a friend. Got it home and crawled underneath it. It had this big wraparound lights bar accessory thing in the back and sides with around 15 of those cursed things. Such a mess I removed the whole light bar and repaired my damaged wires.
Install those and it's not IF the connection will fail, it's WHEN. I have a bag of those things, they are always included in accessory kits, plus the ones I've removed. I'm saving them to give to an enemy. (OK just kidding.)
