Pin 9 on the x20 plug, what does it do?

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Post Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:05 pm

Started wiring up the c101 plug onto my m50 loom today using this wiring chart

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/index.php/M5x_Looms

Everything went fine. Apart from this.

When started I cut off the x20 plug all wires at once.

When I got to pin 22, the O2 sensor relay (green/white) I realised I had 2 wires on the loom with the same thickness and colour.
One went to pin 22, one to pin 9 which on the chart apparently wasn't used. the one at pin 9 had a small number 692 written on it at the old plug.

Now that left me needing to find out which wire on the loom to connect to my c101 plug.

I traced the wires and one gets jointed off to 2 smaller green and blue wires, and one went into the diagnostics plug.

I found another number 692 stamped on one of the cables further up. But it was the one that connected to the 2 smaller wires???

So if the one that had the number on it was connected to pin 9, then that means my pin 22 went straight into the diagnostics
plug??? Surely this can't be right? It also wasn't connected to the cap on the plug.

Can anyone shed some light on this, sorry if i am not being clear.