What does this cable do?

Fox · Unread post by **Fox** » 08 May 2004, 02:18

Hi all,
Under the bonnet on the drivers side of my Xantia, right at the front, is where the wire for the headlamp comes up and then connects to the rear of the light unit. Also coming up with this wire is a smaller wire, clipped to the headlamp wire, with a small black and purple connector on the end. It's not connected to anything but looks like it should be.
What's it for?
Ta.

edd001 · Unread post by **edd001** » 08 May 2004, 03:51

do you have fog lights, if not it could be for that as you will find the electrics are the same in several modals as it works out cheaper to manufacture.

AndersDK · Unread post by **AndersDK** » 08 May 2004, 03:58

Fox -
Xantia schematics are found here :
http://citroeny.cz/servis/servis.htm
Do yourself a favour, and look them over to understand the way Citroen do the electrics ...

Fox · Unread post by **Fox** » 08 May 2004, 05:50

The car has foglights yes. The connector for those is at the other side, however.
It looks clean inside the connector so I assume it used to be connected to something..
Cheers for that link Anders

PowerLee · Unread post by **PowerLee** » 08 May 2004, 15:10

Hi
Ive got one of these next to the passenger side headlight on my Peugeot 405, Mine connects up to the bonnet sensor for the Peugeot alarm system.

Fox · Unread post by **Fox** » 09 May 2004, 04:25

Here is a picture of the wire in question:

Unread post by **philhoward** » 09 May 2004, 12:06

I'll try and look on my VSX in a bit, but I've got an ECU box there on mine (for the Hydractive, I think)

Unread post by **RichardW** » 10 May 2004, 12:52

I had a look on mine on Saturday, and that wire is plugged into the bottom off side corner of the headlight - I didn't post that as I didn't think it was the wire you were referring to! No idea what it is doing there though....