What's It For
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Burning Brakes
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What's It For
Ok guys, I pulled my right rear fender getting ready to install wide body fenders and found a strange wire that runs from the bracket where the rear fender and the rear bumper bolt together. Two wires run from this eye one down the inner fender liner to the front of the rear fender and it dead ends there, not hooked to anything, the other to the middle of the rear bumper right behind the third brake light, also not hooked to anything. Neither appear they were ever hooked to anything, they are in little clips that appear to be factory and the wire has bar coded paper tags on it that make it look as though its factory. Just wondering what is for, or could be for. Here are some pics.
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Will be interesting to see if anyone knows exactly what those wires are for. 
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I suppose so, but I have been around a lot of fiberglass/plastic cars and never seen anything like this. I know pretty much how an antennae works, if it were a hidden antennae I could understand but it has a regular manual antennae that the mount is tied to ground behind rear bumper. Maybe, so I could further understand, one of you guys could give further explanation. Sam, you have been quite helpful in the past. I really appreciate your input.
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The antenna is not tied into the normal electrical ground. Here is the schematic.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ddp5xkq54a...matic.pdf?dl=0
Mr. Sam
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ddp5xkq54a...matic.pdf?dl=0
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The antenna is not tied into the normal electrical ground. Here is the schematic.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ddp5xkq54a...matic.pdf?dl=0
Mr. Sam
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ddp5xkq54a...matic.pdf?dl=0
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The schematic DOES NOT show any antenna grounding. The antenna control unit is grounded. Have never looked at the unit wiring myself but have dealt with this same question on more than one occasion.
Mr. Sam