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Originally Posted by 59bhp
The reason not to use solder in a system with high vibration is because the solder work hardens and will eventually fail (after becoming hard and brittle),
whether a car comes under the catogory of high vibrations is another matter.
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So under this theory of a high vibration catagory, soldered joints will fail, but crimped butt connectors won't? That makes absolute zero sense with even the smallest amount of common sense applied. You must not have a lot of experience in this matter, and therefore should stop spreading this ill informed opinion that lacks fact based information to others.
Everything in moderation man. As long as your soldered joint doesn't look like an arts and crafts project from preschool covered in boogers, and only the neccesary amount of solder is used the joint will be fine. You should still be able to see the individual wires, just covered in solder if you do it right, but if all you see is a smooth blob of solder then you have used to much and sure it will probably give you problems some time down the road or maybe not. Who knows. Also, I don't see passenger cars as being in a high vibration catagory and eventually, everything fails....then you fix it again.