Wheres this go?

[talkingcars]

Hi

Over a year ago I removed my mk2 dash planning to make a custom one which I never did.

I rececently got a mk3 dash to go in but as I have altered the wiring so I could move the switches to above the sunvisor I removed the loom attached to the dash.

I have now discovered that I can not work out where one of the plugs goes, it is present on both looms.

http://home.btconnect.com/talkingcars/Maestrophotos/070506plugs1.JPG

It is circled in black on the mk2 dash loom and in red on the mk3 dash loom.

It appears to fall some where near the fuse box.

Any ideas please, I don't want to have to remove the dash to work out and photos from underneath don't help.

Many thanks

James

[dave-mg]

could it not be an optional extra i.e for air conditioning or trip computer.

[talkingcars]

could it not be an optional extra i.e for air conditioning or trip computer.

Only the mk1 maestro with digidash had a trip computer and they were never fitted with A/C.

I pulled my wifes mk3 maestro diesel special to bits yesterday, it doesn't have any of the 3 plugs shown above!

This is starting to bug me, at least one of the wires connecting through it is used, for the rear fogs which is the only thing I need to do for the MOT.

James

[e692wtt]

If a cable is for the rear fogs, it will be blue with a yellow tracer.

I've stripped several of 'our' cars, and the one you're asking about looks vaguely familiar - can't quite place it though. Sadly, I'm at home and not at work now, so can't see the pic :banghead: (saw it at work earlier on). On a Mk II Monty SLX I am sure the 'Mk III connector' goes on the back of the fusebox (printed circuit type - totally different to the earlier type and not "plug and play"), but something niggles me about the 'other connector' - looks like Mk II Monty electric window control unit connector, but could be totally wrong.

The orange wire looks like central locking, there should be a pink wire to match it and get the central locking working if that is the case. Thinking says that the orange (or pink) is permanently live and not ignition controlled, for the central locking.

I can have a look at the Monty Mk II electric window control unit on my Monty tomorrow, if I remember...

:)

[talkingcars]

First part of the mystery is solved, the plug in question goes into the front of the mk3 fusebox, the other 2 plugs into other plugs from the main loom.

Second part of the mystery - Not sure how I have ended up with a dash loom with a mk2 maestro plug at one end and a mk3 montego plug at the other.

James