Map light wiring

[bigwinn]

Afternoon

As it seems I stand better chance of finding rocking horse poop before I locate a map light mirror loom, can anyone tell me how to replicate?

Where does it run to, and via? Is it the accessory board behind the glovebox?

Cheers.

Stu

[Brianmoooore]

Connects to a two pin plug in the passenger speaker area, not the accessories socket.
Purple/green and brown wires, and may be tucked away behind the speaker.

[bigwinn]

Cheers

[jonny323i]

Its just 2 wires with the same plug at each end i looked for a while to get my loom and now i think i shouldnt have bothered but i wanted it original lol
if you want i will take a pic as i havent fitted it yet.

ps brian is it live all the time or only when the ignition is on

[Brianmoooore]

Purple as the main colour says it's live in ignition switch positions 1,2 and 3.
If it was live all the time, the main colour would be red.

[jonny323i]

cheers mate is there a way to wire it easily so it comes on with the interior lights aswell as turning on when you want them

[Brianmoooore]

Wires can be fished over above the headlining from one of the existing interior lights, and I believe it's possible to rearrange the switch wiring in the mirror so that you can turn on the map permanently. You will probably have to include a blocking diode in the 'switched' wire from the interior lights to prevent the map light switch turning on the interior lights as well.

[jonny323i]

i will have to look into it a bit more i sort of understand what your saying but iv no idea on which wires to connect to etc

[sanitroc1]

I have done a couple , you need to convert the switch to on, off ,on type by adding an extra terminal into each switch . I ran the map lights off the interior lights .

[jonny323i]

and how easy is that to do exactly what is invovled

[e30topless]

to fit one properly the loom is available from the dealers for peanuts,

this drops down the inside of the passenger side windscreen pillar and plugs into the cars loom behind the speaker

[jonny323i]

i asked about one last year and was told they are nla but iv been told that before on stuff iv then been back in and bought as long as i suppled the number

[daimlerman]

I guess that the simple way is to remove the plug from the mirror wire and replace with a pair of ordinary connectors,run a twin wire down the pillar,take the earth to the dash earthing point behind the glovebox and the feed to the loom plug,cut the feed wire a couple of inches from the plug and attach the other mirror wire to the loom end.This will leave the supplied loom plug dangling by it's earth wire,so it's an easy fix if the 'proper' loom turns up!