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Subject:Re: mystery connector coming off rear heater circuit on my '84
From:tolga
Date:Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:52:49 -0500

So perhaps since I don't have the booster heater it was always empty?  I
was thinking I lost a wire somewhere but perhaps it was just my memory I
lost ;)

>The only thing I know of that used that two fuse add on piece is the booster
>heater.  Do you have a BA6 heater underneath?  One fuse went to the heater
>unit and another went to a electrical unit behind the glove box.
>
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>> Hello there,
>> Still wondering what this connector is for.  Anyone with an '84 (or
>> maybe it's on other years too) know or willing to take a look?
>>
>> In reassembling my dash after doing the blower motor and headlamp
>> relays on my '84 1.9L I discovered an orphaned connector that I can't
>> recall if was connected to anything or originally alone.
>>
>> It's a black wire with a single male spade in a VW plastic plug/housing
>> (p/n 161 971 976), the wire come off the fuse box on the end closest to
>> the steering column.  It orginates on a 2 fuse panel to the right of my
>> row of relays, ie not with the rest of the regular fuses.  The wire
>> splits off from a green wire with a yellow stripe (if memory serves me
>> correctly) that connects to the rear heater switch in the dash.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Tolga