i'm trying to sort out a few glitches on my recently acquired '05 D3. The front parking sensor doesn't work - no fault displayed on instrument panel so was scratching head a bit.
Took grille off today to switch headlamps to european direction and found these two cables, both with identical female 3 pin sockets, not connected to anything. Would these be for the front parking sensors? I guess i need to take of the underside panel to have a root around but any advice most welcome
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7th Sep 2012 10:07 pm
Disco_Mikey
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ISTR front parking sensors plug into a socket under the offside headlight on a RHD car!
Does your horn work? There are 2 on the d3 both mounted on struts either side of the grill area!
Maybe someone nicked your horns
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7th Sep 2012 10:13 pm
dsd1036
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or driving lights as Mickey said
7th Sep 2012 10:13 pm
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In Land Rover language blue wires are for headlight circuit - so I am with Mikey's suggestion of driving lamps. Horns would be on purple wires to follow the 'Auxiliary circuits fused but not always supplied via the ignition switch' wiring rules.Land Rover - Turning Drivers into Mechanics Since 1948
you may have a point there. i did think the horn sounded a bit wimpy for such a brute. i can only see one horn mounted on left as i look at grille. perhaps i need to replace the other on the right , but the horn does work. incidentally, and trying to avoid thread creep, the parking sensor wring, can that be accessed without taking off the front underside panel?
mikey
driving lights - i have the xenons fitted plus standard fog lamps - i'm guessing that the driving lamps would be a mod that i havent got so perhaps these cables are just unused - yet?
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7th Sep 2012 10:18 pm
Disco_Mikey
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The wiring wouldn't be there, unless it was a factory order, or fitted later on in the cars life.
I suspect someone has kept the lights. It would have had holes left in the front bumper though, so this may have been replaced previously... And probably a switch on the dash, or an empty hole...
There should be 2 horns fitted to the car, a high tone and a low tone. Both are fairly common for failing. One sits behind the grille, as you have seen, and the other sits behind the passenger headlight (on a UK car)My D3 Build Thread
further to my prev posts investigating non- working front park sensors. had a root around behind bumper, found that wires not connected to front sensors, then found front sensors aren't. ie the holes are there and they have blanking caps glued on. what I thought were parking sensors are plastic caps.
not sure what happened in the past but my mrs wants them put in. so I have seen the sensors on eBay about £30 each.what wiring will i need for each one - it appears the loom is fitted as I have rear sensors and front fog light and I have seen an unused multi plug and cable loitering behind the drivers headlamp unit.
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or driving lights as Mickey said 
