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Soldered joints are stiffer than the wires, so you'll have a stress riser and the wires will fail right next to your soldered joint.
Emyr-
Crimp connectors 4 lyfe.
The loom in my rally car has no soldered joints because of fatigue breakages
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Why not both?
obvs if you're doing a lot of crimping then the cost adds up. But for occasional bits and bobs they have the benefits of both soldering and crimping.
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I tried crimps, but I didn’t have any small enough- the wires are really narrow. I’ll probably replace the wing mirror looms at some point so soldering is a tactical measure.
I agree it’s not ideal by any stretch of the imagination.
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Exactly, ideal repair is a new section of loom through the moving part so your solder connections are in the non moving part of the loom.
mcmyk
hugo7
Dammit
Fixedwheelnut
Last two days have seen me sat on a stool by the side of the C55, soldering the broken wires in the looms that control the mirrors. Who knew that folding wires in half each time you turned the engine off would eventually break them?