Simons 89 small bumper 8v fixup thread

I can see 2 main dash loom sections in there, early and late (black and red headlight switch plugs) so if nothing else you'll have plenty of spare pins. cant see any MFA plugs in there but non of the pics are especially clear so cant say for sure either way

 

never mind I was mistaken there is only 1 loom in there

its a later CE1 type as it has red headlight switch plug for the 11 pin headlight switch. Make sure you have an 11 pin switch as fitting earlier 8 or 9 pin one will cause the headlight switch loom to melt!

 

Not the end of the world, either depin both and swap the old.plug to new.loom or source the later 11 pin switch. They're a little easier to find so that helps.

Depending on the state of it you may need to split both looms.down and swap bits about to make a good dash loom anyway!

 

cool looks pretty easy to cut away ce2 stalk so the board retainer can be glued into CE1 stalk

 

these 3 red circles are the mfa plugs, note the stalk plug is different to ce2 so you'll need to change stalk or clock side.

handily near fusebox in yellow circle is a spare 4 pin plug which is the same as the ce1 mfa stalk plug. You can buy the pins or just splice the wires if you prefer

 

if you want to use the new loom, swap the pins over which are the same colours, then you'll have a grey and grey/yellow left over. the grey/yellow is fused input to later type dimmer wheel, which means the dash lighting grey/blue is fused. on the old looms its not fused(!)

the grey/yellow is the power feed for the fog light switch on models without front fogs, this might need some fiddling. Follow this wire see where it goes, if it ends up at a male spade, unplug it and remove from the loom. take the female spade it was connected to, and pop into M/1 on the fusebox.

if it goes straight to the big black plug joining the 2 halves of the dash loom you'll need to put a spade on it for m/1 as above, otherwise your fog lamps wont work. It will probably have a spade on it same as the earlier ones do, its there so you can plug it into spade on B/20 which is the power output from the fog light relay which is fitted when factory/dealer fit front fogs are specified

 

yep 11 pin switch will plug straight in. was fitted to last of the ce1 fusebox cars then all the ce2 ones in the UK

stalks any ce1 will do right from mk1 golf spindly stuff to late 88 chunky

 

take that brown out of the back of the fusebox!!!

It should go to the white 4 way spade block on the headlight loom. where it is will short out the headlight wiring