I have another wiring problem courtesy of a previous bodger.
As you may be able to make out from the photo above, a previous owner has fiddled with the wiring harness by splicing a wire into the green (is that main beam?) wire near the fuse box, you can just make out where by the position of the black tape. The black wire that was taken off the green then runs down the outside of the harness until it splits into two via a blue connection down near the headlamp bar.
You can see on the two red connector ends that I made a tag which reads 'Red to green'. What that means is that the original green wires from the lamp bar that connect together with the green wires from the harness were connected to these, while the green ones from the harness were left dangling as can be seen from the photo below taken when dismantling.
Obviously with the car currently sat in blazing sunshine It's hard to check if the main beam is working properly or not so I'll check that later. What I can't understand is why do this?
The second problem is that while the nearside indicators have a feed from the main harness that is now working (hooray) the original feed for the offside wasn't used, this too I found simply taped to the headlamp bar as the tag I fitted tells me. The thing is, there isn't another live feed so I can't imagine how my flashers were wired up previously?
I've tested this wire for current in the wire shown and it's not live, but where on earth could I draw current to supply the offside indicators from if not here?
Like so many things the Haynes manual talks as though it's all so simple, but when faced with the actuality the bloody things bewildering. Not to worry I'll sort it somehow.
