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I have a 2011 and I experienced this issue where my headlights, horn and running lights stopped working. I should state that I felt I should try to investigate this myself before paying somebody, however, I have no vehicular electrical experience of any kind. (Well, I don't have any electrical experience beyond a potato battery experiment in grade 3...)
I found one post on the site here were a guy had this issue and found a loose connector. Indeed, my issue was caused by what I believe is the same connector. However, the connector itself is not loose (as his was) as when I ziptied it together, it didn't solve the issue. Upon further experimenting, I found that moving the wires around the connector caused it to fail, but no particular movement consistently caused it to fail. I did notice that one side of the connector was getting really hot, like almost too hot to touch, the culprit seeming to be an orange wire. In the absence of a wiring diagram, I thought I'd try and isolate the offending part. As soon as I unplugged the headlight, the wire/connector stopped heating up. The headlight bulb is correct, it's not like the wrong one is in there, drawing too much power.
I then unwrapped some of the electrical tape behind the connector, to see if it was the whole wire that was heating up or just the connector. As the wire didn't get hot, I conclude that the orange wire is maybe loose in the connector.
So my question is, do I have to replace the wiring harness or do these connectors come separately? Has anybody had any issues like this? Is there something else I should be checking?
PS, I've attached photos of the offending connector.
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