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Wiring diagram - ever scratch your head over it?

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Old 03-01-2014 | 08:56 AM
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Here's a little video explaining how to use the factory wiring diagrams:

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Great job van I read mine the sway way. On the early car I used to have a cheater page because of the German color names haha. This should help a lot of people who want or am electrically inclined. Great job
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Chris White posted this over in the Turbo forum:

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One tip (you may have mentioned this somewhere) some time around 87 or 88 the wire color codes in the wiring diagrams switched from German to English. Schwarz (SW) became Black (BK).
Previous to that the colors are in German and the only key is shown only on the 85/2 pdf!
SW= Black
WS = White
RT = Red
GN = Green
GY = Yellow
GR = Grey
BR = Brown
BL = Blue
LI = Violet
Old 03-02-2014 | 01:40 AM
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Not to nit pick or anything, but Yellow in German is "Gelb". On the schematics, GE is yellow, not GY.
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If you do a search.. ive also made a good post with a primer as well.
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http://928-electrics.com/wiring%20diagram%20primers.htm
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until very recently Bosch, and German car wiring in general wallowed in the stone age.



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