If you buy a car that has had many previous owners (and both the Kombis* qualify) you will find some horrors just below the surface (cue Jaws music).
Like the ABS light “fix” I blogged about earlier.
Or this one:
- Just wrap the wire nice and tight, it’ll hold…
- …then cut them off and abandon them when we don’t need it no more.
- At least this dude had a soldering iron.
All of this much better when covered with various layers of insulation tape of varying quality.
This guy did a slightly better job, he used the back half of a crimp connector to connect his repurposed household twin (i.e. mains) wire to the white/lilac (being lights) wire to the cluster.
And of course I am in here because I am doing my own thing. Hopefully the next owner doesn’t curse me :-) (For the record, solder and heatshrink tubing works for me).
* Ah yes I bought two** Kombis. That’s another story.
** Or three, depends on how you count.