Mystery Electrical Connector

[CrazyJew89]

Found this thing chilling in the engine bay yesterday, buried in a bundle of wires. Anyone know what it goes to? I've had nearly 300 people look at it over at e30tech and no one seems to know.

[FLG]

Your car a 5 speed?

Pretty sure that connector is only used for cruise control on automatics.


Edit : yep here ya go

[jlevie]

What year car?

[CrazyJew89]

It's an '87 that I think had a 5-speed swap done before I got the car. Think that might explain why my cruise cruise doesn't work? Also how in the world did you know it was C143?

[jlevie]

C143 doesn't sound right to me. As I recall it is in the cabin taped back on the cruise control harness. And it is a single wire, not a pair.

[CrazyJew89]

You're right. It can't be C143 b/c the manual says C143 is BU/BR (blue and brown) and both the wires were purple iirc

[FLG]

Dohhh,

Will check the manual again.

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[ELVA164]

I dunno if it helps, but my car is an '87 manual and I have that same plug in the same spot.

[CrazyJew89]

Dohhh,

Will check the manual again.

I checked the manual for everything w/ 2 pins. The closest thing I found was C150 and that isn't it.

I dunno if it helps, but my car is an '87 manual and I have that same plug in the same spot.

So it's not left over from the 5-speed swap.

[bmwguy325is]

I dunno if it helps, but my car is an '87 manual and I have that same plug in the same spot.

Yup same here