Low-Carb Cable Salad

When Metz converted the chassis supplied by Mercedes into a fire engine, they installed loads of extra electrics and wired them accordingly.

I removed all of these cables so that I’ll have a clear and neatly organised wiring harness in the future. On top of that, the battery was losing power somewhere ... that has been stopped.

To do this, I traced the individual cables of the removed components (blue lights, siren, extra headlights, body electrics and so on) and carefully took them out.

What looks daunting at first was actually very easy – nicely meditative work with a fan heater in the truck, pouring rain and freezing cold outside.

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