Connecting to indicator wiring...

[D87 SMW]

I have an additional loom to connect to my remote locking kit's control unit, to the car's indicators to make them flash when the car is locked/unlocked. The wires for this on the extra loom are shown on the instructions (see attached photo) as two brown wires, each of which connect to one side of the car's indicators.

In fact, the loom has these two brown wires as illustrated, but one has some kind of sealed inline fuse fitted and also has a red wire in the same block of the connector. The other is just a brown wire on its own. :confused:

I've had a quick look in the Haynes book of Lies and as I don't understand wiring diagrams one bit, I could only guess that one brown wire connects to the green/white wire and the other to the green/red wire which come from the indicator switch (stalk)..? (i.e. the two brown wires are designed to operate both wires from the switch - not normal practise for the car - at the same time?)

In which case, why does one brown wire have a fuse and a red wire attached and the other is on its own?

Can anyone please advise, as I am an idiot when it comes to anything electrical!

[Russ]

I think the 'sealed fuse' is probably a diode to stop your inicators back feeding and flashin both sides at once.
I fitted the maplin alarm to mine and IIRC tapped into the indicator wiring on th 'loom' side of the stalk wiring

[E_T_V]

As above. The "Fuse" will be a diode to stop the indicators back feeding through the connections you are adding.

Connect at the bottom of the steering column or fusebox or on the wiring leading to the rear of the car (depending on where you are putting the control box).

[D87 SMW]

Cheers guys, I'll have a go at that. Am I right as to which wires I'm connecting to? Also, where does the third/red wire go? :confused:

[E_T_V]

Whoah. Looking more closely at that wiring it looks like they've mixed up the brown and the red wire in fitting them to the plug.

I would guess both brown wires should be together and the red go to a fused 12v supply

[D87 SMW]

Job done. Just connected the two brown wires to the green/red and green/white wires where they join the connector behind the stalks and it all works fine. Maybe I'm not as dumb as I thought. :D

Cheers. :)

[Russ]

I think i had the same problem,logic said it wouldnt work but when i fitted it it worked fine. Glad its all ok