(S)He's Electric!

Whilst the next major task is to start to strip Massi down, I wanted to check that everything works before I take him to bits.

First - the lights. I managed to retrieve the front and rear lights from his box of bits. The rear clusters were easily fitted - thanks to the colours of the wires each terminal connected to being stamped into the plastic next to each connection. I'm not an electrical expert, so plugging a red wire onto a terminal labelled as red and so on was a breeze. 

Thoughtfully labelled terminals!

So onto the front lights. I had found numerous wiring diagrams for different models online, but for some reason, the wire colours at the front of the car did not seem to match with any of the wire colours on any of the diagrams....

The wiring diagram....

After having a closer look, I noticed that Massi's headlights had four connections plus an earth, whereas all the ones on the wiring diagram had three plus an earth. Hmmm. Then I noticed that many of the wires on the car suddenly changed colour, and there were a couple of instances of four earth cables connected together in mid air with a nut and bolt. I think Stevie Wonder had re-wired poor Massi!

A bowl of spaghetti Wiring in the front.....

After some trial and error, I managed to get the rear and some of the front lights working, but not the indicators correctly. I think starting again with a new wiring loom might be a good idea!

Next job - lets see if he fires up!