Wiring help needed
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Burning Brakes
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Wiring help needed
Can someone tell me what this wire goes to? When I took the interior apart, I labeled it "heater control" but I can't find anywhere that it could possibly attach to. If you can't tell, it is running in the same group of wires that the cigarette lighter power is in. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Bryan
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That looks like the ground wire for the heater light/cig lighter. Should be male tab mounted to the metal bezel that the female plug slides onto.
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I agree that it has to be a ground wire, but unfortunately, the only terminal on the underside of the trim plate is on the cigarette lighter. Assuming that it is a ground, couldn't I just extend the wire and ground it somewhere else?
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The cig lighter spade is not a ground. That should be a red (I think) heavier wire. You can actually ground anywhere on the bezel. Might want to be sure it's actually a ground wire before you go too far.
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I agree with Raphiki: lighters have only one connection and that's the hot. They ground through the console trim plate.
How about right here? Call out #5:
Last edited by Easy Mike; Oct 29, 2012 at 12:15 PM.
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It's a 75. I agree that the terminal on the cigarette lighter is not a ground. The orange wire in the picture with the female connector is the power for the cig lighter. The question remains then, what is the black wire? It looks like it should be a ground but where does it connect to?
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Last edited by Easy Mike; Oct 29, 2012 at 01:15 PM.
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