Not as planned…

The week-end that is, and in more ways than one as well. I’m due to phone Bertrand tomorrow (Monday) to agree on which day this coming week I’ll be collecting the X-Air. I’ll be borrowing a trailer so it’s important that I’ve finished fitting my new tow-bar to my car beforehand. The weather forecast was for fine weather on Saturday and today and sure enough, I was able to get the unit onto the car on Saturday leaving the electrics for today. The instructions said it would take about 60 minutes for the whole job, but that’s another story. It took me over half a day just to get to the stage shown in the pic below!

But unfortunately the weather then decided not to cooperate and I awoke today to dull, drizzly weather that looked to be set in for the rest of the day if past experience was anything to go by. And sure enough, that’s what happened. I got all of the electrical work done, though, and after I’d cleaned everything up and refitted the trim in the back of the car, I was quite pleased with the way the job had turned out actually. Only trouble was that when I tested the socket in the best way that I could, only two of the six pins worked properly! I could hardly believe it – I’ve done so many similar electrical connections on other cars and on MYRO of course, and if I’d had the same success rate with the latter, it would never have got into the air 😐

So now I’ve got to find out why things aren’t working. I think I’ll see if I can borrow Wim’s trailer board tomorrow and see if the connections work with that, but failing that, I’ll have to strip most of the trim out again and check all of the connections one by one, and that will be a pain.

By the way, on Saturday I visited the local supermarket wearing my usual tee shirt, shorts and flip-flops because the temperature here is still something like 21 degrees C. However, the locals seem to have decided that summer is definitely now over because most of them were wearing long trousers, jumpers and even coats and jackets. Hmmm… must be careful that I’m not labelled as an eccentric foreigner 🙂