Dangling wire

[BigMikeIT]

This cable has been hanging free since I have ... owned the car. Any idea of its use? Maybe an accessory flux capacitor.




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[87gtVIC]

Maybe to a foot well lamp.

It is one wire. Foot well lamps were grounded by their mounting points. Check for power with door open, and with door closed. If only powered with door open it would be for a light.

[gadget73]

lamp would be my guess too. its about in the right spot.

[87gtVIC]

The odd part about that though is the connector. The connector looks to be capable of housing two wires. The connector also appears to be keyed suggesting it goes into another connector as part of some harness. Wire color could ease the curiosity some may have. It looks like pink with blue dots. Off the top of my head I have NFC.

[sly]

I remember a harness like that somewhere under my dash on both sides. Looks like a speaker connector. I do know that there is unused wires in the harness in my beater and it would figure that up-optioned cars may not use a few of the wires that my base optioned car uses. Especially in regard to the speakers. If there's only 4 speakers in the car (no dash speakers) that may be the dash speaker option wiring hanging down.

[BigMikeIT]

I remember a harness like that somewhere under my dash on both sides. Looks like a speaker connector. I do know that there is unused wires in the harness in my beater and it would figure that up-optioned cars may not use a few of the wires that my base optioned car uses. Especially in regard to the speakers. If there's only 4 speakers in the car (no dash speakers) that may be the dash speaker option wiring hanging down.

Whoever purchased the car got everything but heavy duty suspension for the LS. Just fixed the right sub in the door by sanding the contacts.

I never bothered to check it. Sorta like when there is a quarter that rolls back and forth in the body. I only see it when it moves.

[Chuck Norris]

Looks like an old-school Ford speaker wire to me, too. If it were a flux capacitor connector, it would have a Mr Fusion logo on it for anything after 1986.

[DerekTheGreat]

Maybe to a foot well lamp.

It is one wire. Foot well lamps were grounded by their mounting points. Check for power with door open, and with door closed. If only powered with door open it would be for a light.

That's what it looks like to me. My '85 LTD had a similar plug & that's what I tapped into to power the lights I added to the door

[BigMikeIT]

Dangling wire

That's what it looks like to me. My '85 LTD had a similar plug & that's what I tapped into to power the lights I added to the door

I was able to pickup the wiring schematics for the LTD/MGM, and it is a purple wire with orange stripe (P/O).

The connector p/n was used for various thing like a courtesy light or trunk switch (77-79) - which I already have for both. Maybe something left over like an appendix.

The wire 298 p/o is shared between a 'spring suspension control module' and a 'compressor relay' - which I don't have either if these belong to the 'heavy duty suspension' (IDK) or for the TC?

[DerekTheGreat]

So your car already had the lights in the door? I don't think I've seen a CV with 'em from the factory, least not the early ones like mine. My car even had the uplevel interior and such. Only options my car didn't have were the full roof (which I've never seen on a CV), air ride, power antenna, turbine wheels and premium sound. Yet it didn't have the faux wood trim with the door lights, so I added them.

[BigMikeIT]

So your car already had the lights in the door? I don't think I've seen a CV with 'em from the factory, least not the early ones like mine. My car even had the uplevel interior and such. Only options my car didn't have were the full roof (which I've never seen on a CV), air ride, power antenna, turbine wheels and premium sound. Yet it didn't have the faux wood trim with the door lights, so I added them.

Have (GM) the foot well light and door courtesy light with the plastic wood, power antenna and p/s (in pic). I realized I am missing the passenger dash underside cover. More cardboard.

I remember one time talking about replacing the faux wood with veneer or walnut. But then reality sunk in.

[DerekTheGreat]

I think only Mercury's and Lincoln's got that cardboard. That or every CV I've come across has been stripped of it.

Yeah, Grand1 did that with a Lincoln he had. Think it was just for the door switch panels, looked cool.