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When you plug your boat trailer lights to your 2006 dodge ram the lights on the trailer will not come on if you use another truck the lights will work where do you look is it a fuse or a circuit break?
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Based on experience with my own 2006 Dodge Ram 2500, your TIPM may have failed. In the infinite wisdom of Dodge Chrysler engineers and management, the year model 2006 and forward has a TIPM which controls the power circuites to the trailer harness - there are no fuses, only computer module. For reasons unknown except to profit the corporation and dealers, if there is a trailer fault the TIPM shuts off power to the effected trailer circuit, which then must be reset by the dealer. If the circuit shut out condition repeats more than 5 times, then the TIPM must be replaced (I was quoted $711). More information around the TIPM and SB's: http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2006/08-021-06.htm There is no information in the owners manual around the TIPM and how to protect it from trailer wiring faults. == == The trailer lights working on another vehicle suggests that the trailer wiring is all done correctly. You did not mention if the tail lights and turn signals on your Ram pick up are working, or not. IF your truck tail, brake, and turn signal lights operate properly, then there is nothing wrong THEIR FUSES OR CIRCUIT BREAKERS, leading to the conclusion that the problem is in the very short section of wiring harness which is is supposed to be properly wired into the tail light, break light, turn signal for your truck. None of the trailer lights working when plugged in, suggests that the ground wire in the harness is open/not connected. IF the trailer lights worked, but turned on the wrong lights when activated, would suggest that some of the wires were "crossed," miss routed. Again, the fact that none of the lights are working when plugged into your truck indicates that the short wiring harness between the light system on your truck to the connector plug is not connected properly, and probably has an "open" ground. As a mechanic at a Dodge dealer, Answer #2 is most likely.
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When you plug your boat trailer light to your 2006 GMC sierra the lights on the trailer will not come on if you use another truck the lights will work where do you look is it a fuse or a circuit break?
Trailer Lights Work on Other Vehicles but Not MineIF the lights [tail, turn, and brake] are working on your vehicle, AND the trailer lights will work on some other vehicle, that confirms:That the problem is NOT in your vehicle's wiring system.That the problem is either in the trailer wiring, OR is caused by the IMPROPER connection of the connector plug wires to the wiring of your vehicle.It is critical that the connector plugs [on the vehicle and the trailer] are properly connected to the correct wires.The fact that NONE of the lights work when connected to your truck suggests that the defect is related to the GROUND wireas that is the only wire common to all the different light circuits.
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Why my dashboard lights and break-lights don't work?
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Diagram of a closed circuit?
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