I need help with a question or two.
The kit fixes the common yellow brake pad sensor warning on the dash and consists of everything needed...
It is not clear in the picture regarding wire connection ends, for clarity the twisted pair of black and brown ABS wires have one sort of terminal pins with weather seals whereas the yellow and red pad wear wires are not twisted and the red wire has a different terminal pin without a weather seal. The yellow wire has no pin!!!!!!, it has however been stripped to expose 1cm of bare strands, strangely as those it is ready for a domestic wiring connector block?
QUESTION. WHY HAS THE YELLOW WIRE NO TERMINAL PIN?
I know I can splice new to old where the old loom pops out in the engine compartment above the near side wheel arch but I would like to install it properly. I thus need to know the route of these wires and the destination of each wire after it joins a bigger loom just after the wheel arch grommet. To this end I unwrapped the loom protection tape on the loom it joins after the wheel arch grommet, up to the big fat grommet at the top right of the engine compartment and it revealed the cable, still with its hard protective outer coat, disappears through the grommet into the cabin.
QUESTION. DOES ANYBODY KNOW FOR SURE WHAT HAPPENS THEN IN THE CABIN?
I would include the wiring diagram but they are copyright but they reveal...
1. The ABS wires end up at the ABS controller (J104) next to the near side headlight in the engine compartment and a continuity test with a multimeter with the old loom confirms this. Logical enough and also explains the weather seals on the pins but very very strangely it must mean the the brown and black wires do a U turn on arrival in the cabin and come straight back out again joing the loom at the top of the near side wing in the engine compartment???
QUESTION. HAVE I GOT THIS CORRECT???
2. The red pad wear wire is shown to end up at the red connector at the base of the near side A-pillar and this is confirmed with a continuity test on the old loom and the new pin type matches, explains no weather seal as it lives in the cabin. I am reasonably happy about this destination.
3. The yellow wire is my problem. The wiring diagram shows it's an earth and terminates at "119 - Earth connection -1-, in headlight wiring harness".
BIG QUESTION. EXACTLY WHERE IS THIS EARTHING POINT?
Found a correct gauge yellow wire in the red connector but no continuity with the old yellow wire yet other wires do, not surprising as they must be other earths so the old yellow is connected to earth somewhere. Seems illogical to be involved with the headlight wiring but what do I know.
Never really dabbled with electrics but can somebody explain why female connector pins bizarrely seem to be called 'Timers'??????
Andy
The kit fixes the common yellow brake pad sensor warning on the dash and consists of everything needed...
It is not clear in the picture regarding wire connection ends, for clarity the twisted pair of black and brown ABS wires have one sort of terminal pins with weather seals whereas the yellow and red pad wear wires are not twisted and the red wire has a different terminal pin without a weather seal. The yellow wire has no pin!!!!!!, it has however been stripped to expose 1cm of bare strands, strangely as those it is ready for a domestic wiring connector block?
QUESTION. WHY HAS THE YELLOW WIRE NO TERMINAL PIN?
I know I can splice new to old where the old loom pops out in the engine compartment above the near side wheel arch but I would like to install it properly. I thus need to know the route of these wires and the destination of each wire after it joins a bigger loom just after the wheel arch grommet. To this end I unwrapped the loom protection tape on the loom it joins after the wheel arch grommet, up to the big fat grommet at the top right of the engine compartment and it revealed the cable, still with its hard protective outer coat, disappears through the grommet into the cabin.
QUESTION. DOES ANYBODY KNOW FOR SURE WHAT HAPPENS THEN IN THE CABIN?
I would include the wiring diagram but they are copyright but they reveal...
1. The ABS wires end up at the ABS controller (J104) next to the near side headlight in the engine compartment and a continuity test with a multimeter with the old loom confirms this. Logical enough and also explains the weather seals on the pins but very very strangely it must mean the the brown and black wires do a U turn on arrival in the cabin and come straight back out again joing the loom at the top of the near side wing in the engine compartment???
QUESTION. HAVE I GOT THIS CORRECT???
2. The red pad wear wire is shown to end up at the red connector at the base of the near side A-pillar and this is confirmed with a continuity test on the old loom and the new pin type matches, explains no weather seal as it lives in the cabin. I am reasonably happy about this destination.
3. The yellow wire is my problem. The wiring diagram shows it's an earth and terminates at "119 - Earth connection -1-, in headlight wiring harness".
BIG QUESTION. EXACTLY WHERE IS THIS EARTHING POINT?
Found a correct gauge yellow wire in the red connector but no continuity with the old yellow wire yet other wires do, not surprising as they must be other earths so the old yellow is connected to earth somewhere. Seems illogical to be involved with the headlight wiring but what do I know.
Never really dabbled with electrics but can somebody explain why female connector pins bizarrely seem to be called 'Timers'??????
Andy