Mk2 VR6 Re-wire help needed - Interior re wire 26/03/10 (Page2)

Thanks, your right.

If I put a wire from the battery -ive to the inner spotlight on the grill's earth everything works fine.

If I put a wire from the battery -ive to the hedlight earth nothing changes.

I wonder what I did wrong?? I was soooo carefull as well. Must try harder with the engine loom.

 

I just unwrapped that section of loom and tested the earth wire with one end of the multimeter on the battery +ive and it gave 12volts, that means the earth is good doesn't it?

Very strange.

I think i'll still wire the headlight and spot light directly to the batttery -ive.

 

I`m about to tackle the loom on my track MK2. The number of unused wires is huge and as I`m going to be switching to Megasquirt, it seems a good opportunity for good loom thinning exercise!

Rather than wrapping, I`m going to be using the split tubing like AndyG has. Makes adding extra wires in future or faultfinding much easier.

 

I've ripped out all the interior loom now and removed a ton of insulation tape from it. Every single loom was taped up, then taped to each other to make one huge bundle of wires.

I've put a single ring of tape every 6" (ish) to keep them neat but want to bin some more wires.

Can I bin the 'parking light' wires from the loom that goes to the back of the car? I've never purposely used a parking light in 12 years of driving. To me its just a good way to accidently flatten the battery.

 

You mean the one's where if you slap the indicator on it puts one side of the sidelight and rear lamp on?

I always assumed this was part of the circuit rather than having a separate wire? If not tell me more as i'll strip it out too

 

The ones I'm thinking of binning are:

A1/04 - Parking light front left - grey/black
A2/02 - Parking light front right - grey/red

H2/02 - Front parking light switch right - green/red
H2/03 - Front parking light switch left - green/black
H2/05 - Power to parking light switch - green(Does this power anything else?)

K/02 - Parking light right rear - grey/red
K/03 - Parking light left rear - grey/black

Only 7 wires but the more I bin the happier I feel. Ihats behind the fuse box now, about 200 wires???.

 

My fusebox is pretty bare I'll see if i've even got those wires!

 

OK, A1/04 and A2/02 cant be removed because they double as sidelight wires.

 

Cool. I just had the lighting loom out AGAIN, I unwrapped it and saw what i'd done wrong with the earths. I've put a wanted add on so I can start again.

I got it down to 10 wires including the horn but it ended up pretty cut up. I'm after a replacement now to do neat. Anyone know if a jetta one will have the H4 and sidelight connection same as the mk2?

I seperated the other yellow plug (D?) for the fluid levels and washer jet pump from the 2 lighting ones and i'm going to run that into the scuttle with the wiper loom.

This is where the fuse box is at. Previously all you could see was black insulation tape, piles and piles of it.

 

So, its all thinned out now, its gone from an afro to a comb over.

Is there anything availabe to wrap an interior loom with thats like the original foam stuff? Also was the foam just to keep the dash quiet?

 

I think i'll get a shhet of foam and fix it with loom tape.

 

Is there a wire thats only live with the key out? For a flashing LED or other such device?

 

I'm going to do another lighting loom.

Last time I got a bit carried away removing stuff and ended up with a few wires, like the main fuse box + & -'s coming out through random holes in the bulkhead.

This time I want to keep them all coming through the original hole under the servo but whats suppost to go where, I have a load of questions.

Does just the headlight, sidelight, indicator and fog go down the drivers side chassis leg under the servo to the headlight?

Does the rest go over the servo (or under and loop back up) and then T off for the brake fluid, coolant level, indicators then battery before reaching the passenger headlight?

What else passes through the bulkhead with that loom? Stuff to bin like dip dim and fan wiring? My fan is all contained in the bay.

Whats relay 31?

The pins in the headlight connector look a bit green/blue. Can I get replacements and cut the old ones off?