Headlight Wiper System

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HartgeRaul
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Post Sun Aug 16, 2015 10:29 pm

Hi every one.

I have USA 87 325 that I am building a Alpina B6 3.5 clone. US spec BMW do not have wiring to plug and play. I been tracing the wires under the dash of my 85 euro 320i. I have plugged and wired up wires to stalk and fuse box. I have read wiki headlight wiper system wiring diagram and instruction to install. I need to know where the plug goes on wire loom. What color are the wires? Does the 2 wires go to fuse box or do they straight to under dash? If any body have pics how it is wire up.
Any help would be great!!!
This is the plug.
ImageDSC04323 by Raul Salinas, on Flickr

Thank you,
Raul
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Brianmoooore
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Post Sun Aug 16, 2015 11:27 pm

Headlamp wiper system was always packaged with an intensive wash windscreen washing system. There is no direct connection between the two, other than the washer fluid tank has two separate compartments - one with a pump for the intensive wash, and the other with a pump for the normal screenwash and another for the headlamp washers.
The headlamp wash and wipe is controlled by a module that screws to the side of the double screenwash tank, uses inputs from the sidelamp circuit and the normal screenwash to control it, and takes power from the same purple/black wire that supplies the normal screenwash pump.
The headlamp wiper motors themselves are completely self contained. They require a 12 volt feed to the black wire, and earth to the brown wire. If a short 12V+ pulse in then applied to the red wire, the wipers will start and run until they complete their sequence of wipes, then automatically park. One of the motors has a fourth wire coming from it. This wire provides a 12 volt feed to the washer pump for the first part of the wiping sequence.
HartgeRaul
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Post Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:09 pm

Thank you for info.

Can you post pics of inputs from the sidelamp circuit? I just want install like oem.



Thank you,
Raul