A01 How long was an original wiring harness designed to last?
Believe it or not, your car’s original wiring harness had a service life of only 10 years! For you folks with car’s from the 50’s, with original harnesses, you have exceeded the service life of your car’s wiring by forty years!!! When we hear people telling us that the wiring in their 1950s or 1960s car is still “in great shape”, we have to shake our heads and disagree. We don’t make this statement just because we are in the business of selling wiring harnesses. It comes down to an issue of deterioration. There is no practical way to completely seal-off the circulation of air and moisture between individual wire strands in a wire. In addition, most automotive wiring is not protected from hydrocarbon contamination. The majority of automotive wire is made of copper strands. Copper is considered to be an active metal, which means that it readily reacts with oxygen, moisture, and airborne pollutants. If you don’t believe that cooper is active, leave a nicely polished copper teakettle in yo
