tired of wiggling wires on my fried out fuse box. i want real fuses. luckily I held onto this. complete bumper to bumper setup for an 84 td gl. Looks like I hacked the taillight harness, but at least I still have the connector. Since I gotta pull the dash, I'm gonna put in a much nicer one.
bought it a couple of months ago with some minor electrical issues. but as you fixed one thing, you'd lose two more. tired of those old fuses anyhow.


the monster laid out to make sure I had everything

yah, real fuses

whoops. rear harness. at least I have the connector

not a big fan of the brown one, so this one's going in. gotta match the wheel, right?

now off to test and clean and ready i'm gonna try to find a spare harness to fix the rear one.
I just hate how engineers wire cars. Im going to go through my 86. Im re wiring it with relays for the single rounds, losing the a/c, adding an in tank fuel pump, hope to make the MFA work, wire in a real relay for the glow plugs...maybe even hook up the heated seats.
I rewired my 71 Beetle to a normal system. Ive also intigrated a JDM 96 WRX engine/harness into a NA 99 Impreza.
Why not use the current rear harness?
Ugh rewiring a whole vw electrical system.. i love the wiring aspects of things.. but that to much for me still lmao.
Why not use the current rear harness?
Ugh rewiring a whole vw electrical system.. i love the wiring aspects of things.. but that to much for me still lmao.
i'm prolly gonna. I would just rather have it all together before I yank the other stuff out. been cleaning it all day. pics to come.
I plan on losing the 3rd brake light and the defroster, and adding an electric fuel pump and rear fogs. I'm also going to go up in size on all the wires.
Why lose the third brake light?
Why lose the third brake light?
Because euro spec is ballin
boy I gotta take some pics of my progress before this gets out of hand

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Why lose the third brake light?
Because I think its ugly and gaudy. I also have an 85 rear window. Ill probably be scraping the heating element off of it as well.
all mk2's are ugly

. after lots of cleaning and checking with the voltmeter, along with doing my own pinout

I got this. left only the wire sleeves and cleaned as much as I could of it. its pretty much spotless now. I few wires left to tag up, but time is on my side, and I get a little done every day. some pics.
Cleeeeaannnnnn




and just met a local enthusiast here that wants to help out.
I need to rewire my engine bay. All the insulation is super brittle from the engine heat and fumes. I have a couple marrets on each wire from all the splicing

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that kid is just lovin' the V-dub. Good for him, I hope this car gets passed on to him in about.. hmm 13 years? (assuming he's three

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So how did you get the tape gunk off the wires?