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Motorhole
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Post Sat Feb 18, 2017 6:58 pm

Here we go again... reverting to the fountain of E30 Knowledge! This plug is spliced into the headlamp loom. I think it's where the active check control plugs into the loom, given the colour of the wires? But it's not a 6 cylinder car. If someone could confirm or otherwise that would be great, thanks!

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Post Sat Feb 18, 2017 7:02 pm

It's not the dim dip resistor is it?
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Post Sat Feb 18, 2017 10:55 pm

TriggerFish wrote:It's not the dim dip resistor is it?
There'll be two of them if it is.
What age and model of car, and what's the exact colour of the wires?
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Post Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:10 pm

Only one I can see. I don't think it was plugged into anything beforehand... car is a 1990 318i Lux. Wires are yellow/grey and brown/grey.
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Post Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:21 pm

Brown/grey and grey/white are the colours of the plug where the intensive wash/headlamp wiper loom connects to the body loom.
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Post Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:46 am

Ah yes, thanks Brian. I think that must be it - the contours on the inside of the plug fit the female plug on the right of this pic of the headlamp wiper loom: Image