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    Today when I was troubleshooting my reverse lights, I noticed another connector/harness. Looked like it had three wires. It was fastened, but not connected to a mate anywhere. It's near the right trunk light cluster. This is all seen when you remove the lining to expose the bulbs for the cluster, of course Looked like a factory connector so thought I'd ask. Going to have to pick up a service manual sometime.

    Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about? I'll take a pic tomorrow if it doesn't rain.

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    rear fog lamp maybe?
    1995 540iA M-Sport - 76k miles. 1 of 1 auto AW3 cars.
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    Dude the connector of which you speak is for the tow bar electrics.

    The original towbar (an awesome piece of engineering- ONLY get your BMW E34 tow bar from a stealer or a wrecker), the ball is even removable when you're not using it

    The electrics are really nice too- there is a relay box that mounts right there in the hole inside the quarter panel. It also dove-tails into the main harness (so connects into the system at two points)

    I put one on my car and love it, except it has a tendancy to activate the brake light bulb broken warning very annoyingly, and stops my reverse lights from working completely. I haven't had the time to get into it, but it was probaly my shoddy workmanship like usual.

    I don't know the pin-outs but you'll find them in the car's schemetics in a Bently or the BMW workshop manuals.

    GP
    Last edited by genphreak; 04-07-2005 at 09:30 PM.

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    Nice. I love this place, my new home!

    Perhaps I can tap into this as a power source... THANKS!

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