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
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