Tracey Estevez <boatshop@INTERCOM.NET> wrote:

>right brown wire goes to the map light on the dash negative term.The left
>wire *ends in a bunch of 7(one is 12G and the rest are 18G) other brown
>wires that go nowhere*. They are all crimped together at the end and are
>connected to nothing...dangling under the steering column. Question: are
>these VW brown wires supposed to be ground-wires for the various
>accessories?

I once pulled the instrument cluster harness from an '85 Golf with MFA; on this there was a brown wire(which in all my "research" is the color of VW grounds).  This brown wire lead to a bunch of other brown wires; crimped and soldered together in what sounds like the same fashion as your Vanagon.  So I'd think those would be factory grounds.

-Rob

---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software