Tail Light Issue 2014 Minnie Winnie

[Harpoon-WO]

I recently purchased a 2014 Winnebago Minnie Winnie and upon testing the exterior lights they all work with the exception of the taillights. I believe that the issue could be a fuse. I would like to test the fuse but I need a layout of the fuse box under the hood and which one is for the taillight.

I would appreciate it if someone could provide me with this information. I checked my owner's manual and I don't see anything about the fuses.

 

[Travato John]

Taillights issue

Have you pulled the lens cover on both to check the bulbs and also the ground wire. One light probably feeds off the other wires. Are bulbs ok. Fuse should be somewhere along with other electrical wires although may not be labeled. Good luck. Travato John

 

[mduff]

There may be multiple fuses depending on the light(s). On our Minnie Winnie, the rear lights function as the park lights, which come on with the other lights, function as brake lights, operating when the brakes are applied, which may be a different circuit, turn signals, and finally in the middle are our reverse lights. Are ‘all’ not working, on both sides?

 

[Harpoon-WO]

Mike,

The turn signal and brake lights are working but the tail lights on both sides are not. I'm thinking that there are 2 bulbs, one for the brake light and one for the tail light? I removed the cover and I don't see how to access those bulbs but there are wires going to them. I think that maybe the whole assembly would need to be replaced? Since both sides aren't working I am thinking that the issue is a fuse or wiring. I can't figure out which fuse controls the tail lights.

Rick

 

[mduff]

On ours, 2016, it’s fuse 22 in the passenger compartment (versus engine compartment) that protects the ‘Parking lamps. License plate lamp’. If that fuse was ‘blown’ you should have no marker lights. FYI, fuse 6 is ‘Direction indicator lamp. Hazard lamps. Stop lamps’. It sounds like a bulb, curious why both are out, unless one was out for some time and now joined by its partner?? You could check the license plate light as it may be on the same fuse, however as noted same should be for all your marker / tail lights. On ours there is a red lens, which is adhered to a black plate. The combination is screwed to the back of our MH. To replace other than the reverse lights function I need to separate the red lens from the housing.

 

[Morich]

We may need to know which Minnie Winnie you have to get the correct wiring info.
But I normally think of "tail lights" as actually meaning clearance lights and that circuit has lights in several place like both front and back. Is that the group you mean?

If true, does that mean the front is working which would say it is not a fuse?
This should take you to the drawings where you choose which RV:
https://www.winnebago.com/Files/Files/Winnebago/Resources/Diagram/Wiring.htm
Then once you get to your specific RV, look for the section on exterior lights for info on where the wires run that tie them together and the circuit ID.

When you get to the right info for your RV, you can find the cirduit ID on the drawings as well as stamped on the Winnebago wires> Those wires are often tucked back into the space behind the wall and I don't work too hard to find it if I have the info from the drawings.
To "decode" that ID, use this chart:
https://www.winnebago.com/Files/Files/Winnebago/Resources/Diagram/electrical_guide.pdf

For instance, looking at wire MS is ground and we can check to see which we might have lost, battery or ground! That always make it easier if we can cut the chase down to one specific items to check rather than trying to check ALL the wires.

Unfortunately, they stopped giving us the true wire schematics after the 2010 year so we have to do more searching and guessing to get it found.
Basic point I see is that the front clearance lights and the rear are all on the same circuit ID, so if the front work we can move beyond checking for fuse problems and sort down to other things like bad connections. The drawings can then help sort out which way the wires go and where connections might be!

 

[bcoldpro]

I recently purchased a 2014 Winnebago Minnie Winnie and upon testing the exterior lights they all work with the exception of the taillights. I believe that the issue could be a fuse. I would like to test the fuse but I need a layout of the fuse box under the hood and which one is for the taillight.

I would appreciate it if someone could provide me with this information. I checked my owner's manual and I don't see anything about the fuses.

Pull your lenses and housing to take a look at the wiring to see if someone has not cut and respliced the wiring.

 

[Harpoon-WO]

Pull your lenses and housing to take a look at the wiring to see if someone has not cut and respliced the wiring.

The issue turned out to be a fuse located in the engine compartment. It took some research to determine which fuse it was as they are not labeled and the owner's manual didn't have a layout of them. Not only was the fuse blown but it was the incorrect amperage.

 

[Morich]

Oh, yeah! The fun of following what somebody else may have done!
When looking for info on the fuse, were you looking at the chassis owners manual and not finding the info or is it possible you were in the RV manual?
One of the tricks to finding info on RV is deciding whether we need info on the chassis which Winn buys as a stripped down item from what would normally be a truck, or do we need the house or even one of the appliances inside the house which is built by yet another company!
I fully agree that you may have a manual that doesn't give the needed info but there are times when we miss looking the right place?
I tend to think of the RV info as being somewhat like the different places we have to go to find info on a house we buy. If we need house info, the builder may have some of that but we often need to drill down to who built/installed something like the frig or stove?
Finding which box to look in can be a trick and sometimes it is just not there at all!

Life seems to be sliding into a pit of confusion!

 

[bcoldpro]

Mike,

The turn signal and brake lights are working but the tail lights on both sides are not. I'm thinking that there are 2 bulbs, one for the brake light and one for the tail light? I removed the cover and I don't see how to access those bulbs but there are wires going to them. I think that maybe the whole assembly would need to be replaced? Since both sides aren't working I am thinking that the issue is a fuse or wiring. I can't figure out which fuse controls the tail lights.

Rick

You should be able to separate the lense from the tailight housing to see if the bulbs are burned out. The 2 outside edge bulbs are the same #, the backup light is a different #. I am in the process now of replacing the lenses on both tailglights along with the bulbs. I'm replacing the mounting screws too in that my original screws are a little rusted on the thread. I notice the mounting holes are worn a little larger from vibration I imagine, so I am adding plastic inserts into the old holes to hopefully secure the new lenses better. New lenses were surprisingly inexpensive from Winnebago

 

[bcoldpro]

Adding plastic inserts into the mounting holes in the body of the RV didn't work. I purchased new stainless steel screws and wrapped the screw threads in pipe tape. That seemed to have done the job.

Today I also installed a new roof vent crank unit I purchased on Amazon for $9! Works great. Just like original equipment as installed by Winnabego.