What is this cable for?

[fenderbender]

While mucking about in the boot after I removed the fuel tank (separate thread) I found this cable tucked behind all the plumbing:



Cable colours are pale blue with black trace, and black. The bible suggests "unassigned".

This cable is not connected to anything at all and I wondered what it might be for.

The only thing that occurs to me is that it may have originally been intended as a boot courtesy light feed. My car does not have a boot courtesy light fitted (Chim 450, registered in 2000). If so, I wonder where the feed for the switch would be?

[V8NRG]

Looks like a speaker cable to me.

It could be a previous owner had rear spaekers where the grills are but changed them back whenthey sold the car ? (or are the cables there form the factory but not the speakers ?)

[fenderbender]

V8NRG said:

Looks like a speaker cable to me.

It could be a previous owner had rear spaekers where the grills are but changed them back whenthey sold the car ? (or are the cables there form the factory but not the speakers ?)

Fairly sure these are not speaker cables - the car has the standard Panasonic CD changer. In any case the cable only runs to one side of the car, and the grilles are un-modded as you can see. The cable itself goes into the main plastic-wound loom just behind the filler tube (top left of pic) so must be factory fitment.

Edited by fenderbender on Sunday 20th March 11:05

[softtop]

does it look like part of the main loom or an added extra?

[fenderbender]

softtop said:

does it look like part of the main loom or an added extra?

The cable itself goes into the main plastic-wound loom just behind the filler tube (top left of pic) so must be factory fitment.

[fenderbender]

Intriguing. I'll wire a meter to it after Ive finished mucking about with the fuel system and see what happens when I press the brake pedal.

[Marty V8]

Ive used the black wire in mine to earth the mod-wise powered stereo aerial which is stuck across the rear bulkhead.

[Tyre Tread]

I'de be intersted to know too as just taken the trim off from above the tank and found the same wires.

[pwd95]

Could be left over from an old boot mounted charger. Does it travel in the passenger footwell to the battery?

[Tyre Tread]

pwd95 said:

Could be left over from an old boot mounted charger. Does it travel in the passenger footwell to the battery?

Disappears down behind n/s rear arch never to be seen again!

[roysum]

That's the charging pair for your golf trolley battery. Unique to the Chimaera

[Harrytsg]

Or used for jump starting the chest wig in a Griffith.