Tail Light Connector

[todaymorning]

Hi Aurisians

I have an Auris, 2008 model. The connector at tail light passenger seat which holds the electric cables of break light, indicator and reverse light is broken.

To start with it, I am truly surprised with Toyota's poor design of manufacturing such connectors as people normally solder those cables and not krone the wire into these cheap looking connectors.

1. Do anyone know what is the connector called?

2. Can anyone suggest where I can buy those?

Regards

Hari

[Speed_Chaser]

Hello Hari!

I had this exact same problem last summer, when I did my tail light swap (changed places of rear parkers and brake lights). I had to change positions of two wires and when I tried connecting them back, those tiny connectors inside the big one broke down.

I tried everywhere, no-one knew nothing. Toyota told me I had to order whole wiring harness or something, but anyway, it woud've cost like 300€.

So I decided to be creative. Bought some wire and pushed some wire using pliers on every metal pin. The pins are on the bulb holder itself. You can see them there when your broken, big white connector, will be removed. Then, just put some universal connectors to the ends of the wires, and also to the wires inside the car. Then connect each wire of the car to the right one on your bulb holder and it should work. One of the pins is ground, it's connected to every bulb.

Before doing the job, check to which bulb each pin leads, to connect the right wires together in the end.

Connectors you can use:

[todaymorning]

Hi speed_chaser,

Thanks for the info. Yes I had same problem, the shiny metal bit inside was broken. My local garage told me this are buyable nowdays but same time, when I took it to a Toyota dealer who have their own workshop quoted me £900 to get the "loom" - which is the electrical cables + connector that comes along with it, which mean they have to run the whole thing from the front all the way to the back. So 350 for the part, 450 for labour!!

I'll give it a go of your suggestion.

Hari

[Big Auris]

I to have had a problem with the rear light Multi-Plug which attaches the wires to the rear light cluster. This i found was due to the small top cover on the Multi-Plug being missing. The wires are only slotted down into the plug like some BT telephone connections this seems a very bad and cheap idea and rather surprised that toyota use it. My answer was to cut the plug of the wiring loom and with the aid of a small electric soldering bolt solder spare wires on to the the original terminals then connect the original wires (in the correct order) to your new wires. Heat shrink insulating makes the job very neat

Big Auris

[UK Republic]

Out of curiosity i have just checked the plug connectors on my car and i find them to be perfect for what they are designed to do, Toyota cannot be blamed because someone rips the plug out and damages the wiring, nor for the position of wires to be changed in the plug, on any plug on any make of car there is always a small tab you have to press in in order to get the plug out of the socket, this prevents them coming apart,it's called good design

On your Auris you need to feel behind the socket and press the small tab, the plug comes away easily, if you want to see how it's done i will take a couple of pics.

Chris

[Big Auris]

Hi Chris yes you are quite right all vehicles have Multi-Plugs with different types of release mechanism to allow you to separate them, but in this instance due to the fact that the cover that should have retained the wires was missing the act of even touching the plug or wires dislodged them and no one ripped them apart. It also depends which multi plug you checked as some are more substantual than others.

Big Auris

[UK Republic]

Hi Chris yes you are quite right all vehicles have Multi-Plugs with different types of release mechanism to allow you to separate them, but in this instance due to the fact that the cover that should have retained the wires was missing the act of even touching the plug or wires dislodged them and no one ripped them apart. It also depends which multi plug you checked as some are more substantual than others.

Big Auris

Of course i checked the rear light plugs! and im sure Toyota are more than capable of making plugs and sockets which are fit for purpose,

and someone removed the top cover, it wont fly off all by itself will it, you would need strong fingernails or a small screwdriver to deliberately prise it off unless it was missing at the time of assembly, which i doubt because the wires would have fallen out at the time.

[todaymorning]

chris,

it did prise it off easily. the mechanic showed me other vehicles and the way it was done. he used all of his force to remove them, and it didnt. not only the connector came off with a bit of force, the pinouts are so thin, that it breaks! why toyota should be blamed?

1. in this modern world, you make things to improve the situation.

2. if you decided to go cheap, then at least make spares for them rather than having to replace the whole loom just becuase a connector is broken.

to me it is a design fault.

[Speed_Chaser]

Finally I found a good way to solve this problem. It was really bothering me because I solved it the way I described before and the wires got disconnected sometimes when changing the bulbs etc.

I found a car wrecker who had an Auris and was willing to sell the connectors separately without the harnesses. Now just need to connect my wires to them and everything should be fine.

It wasn't cheap as the wrecker had to brake both harnesses, but still a lot cheaper than buying a whole pair of harnesses from Toyota. At first when I heard the price I thought they're willing to get some extra. So I called to another place and asked how much would they charge for such connectors if they had them. They told me almost the same amount and got me very happy. After that I immediately ordered the connectors and got them allready the next day :)