HUGE Mistake on my part - need HELP!

[usaf-lt-g]

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Hey guys,

So I'm officially calling myself an idiot right now, and kicking myself in the arse. As most of you know, I was finishing my amp installation yesterday (which runs good by the way). HOWEVER, I mad a HUGE idiotic mistake yesterday. When I was running cables from the battery compartment to the interior of the car, I mistakanly drilled on the wrong "grommet" for a few seconds, and I believe I chopped a couple of wires. I ended up drilling to the "Left" of the battery first, through the top portion (of what I thought was just rubber) of the factory Headlights and speaker harness.

After going for a spin last night (and running later tests) I found that the headlight marker lamp (first click to the right on headlight knob), Side Marker lamp, and turning signal on the RIGHT SIDE only of the car no longer worked (surprisingly enough, the actual HID light, High Beam, fog light, and motor still work). I double checked the fuses, and the bulbs, which all tested positive. I also inspected the inside of the headlight compartment to make sure the plug was 100% plugged in.... NOPE. I'm sure of it... I cut the Gray/Red and Green/Black wires at the wiring harness plug by mistake.

So I was trying to figure out what the quickest way to solve the mess was, and I thought, if I remove the battery, and the battery tray, that will allow me access to pull the harness from the hole. UNFORTUNATELY, there doesn't seem to be enough slack from the inside of the vehicle to let me pull it out very far, which means I can't get to the wires from inside the hole, to splice in two new wires before my mistake.

I have a feeling, this is the first time anyone's done something this idiotic, so I'm looking for help here on how to fix the problem. :( It's one of those, "Argghhh! Why Did I do that!" type of mistakes. Here's the pictures below so you can see what I'm talking about.

here's the wiring harness as it enters into the battery compartment from the passenger side of the front hood. It contains both the speaker/amp harneisss and the headlight harness from the passenger side.

here's the opposite side of the harness from the battery compartment side.

And here's the mistake. I started drilling a small hole towards the top of the harness as it passes from battery compartment to the inside of the vehicle. You can see the small hole with some frayed pieces in it. It's located just to the left of where the battery sits, at the bottom.

A closer image of the hole...

ANY Help on what I can do to fix this is greatly appreciated! Thanks! :( :help:

[cvhs18472]

If you go wire by wire this should work. Where there is room to work temporatly splice a long piece of wire in line, then go to the other side of the firewall, pull the slack thru, repair the damage, pull the slack back thru the firewall and take out the temporary splice. Might take a long time but should work. Ed

[usaf-lt-g]

If you go wire by wire this should work. Where there is room to work temporatly splice a long piece of wire in line, then go to the other side of the firewall, pull the slack thru, repair the damage, pull the slack back thru the firewall and take out the temporary splice. Might take a long time but should work. Ed

After analyzing the Electrical diagrams from my Bentley book, I see that black green wire has a weld point at location 34 (which is in the harness). However, by tracing it's fellow "brother" wires... It apears the blinker wire, can be re-splicded in at the "hazard light's switch" black/green wire. I took apart the cluster, hazard button assembly and confirmed the black green wire's presence at the button. Should be easy enough to get to once I run another wire.

As for the side marker (Gray/Red wire on right side). Can I simply splice over to the Left Headlight's side marker wire which is gray/black? Or are these run in parallel and not in series? I'm woried if I splice it in to the left, it will end up dimming both lights. Otherwise I'll have to find another connection point to splice it in at.

thanks

[usaf-lt-g]

Fixed her...

Spliced new wire at the headlight for parking light and turn signal. Turn signal I ran new wire to the hazard light switch (green / black), Parking light I ran to the back of the headlight switch (grey / red). Tested, and everything seems to be running smooth now.

[ronbonner]

Fixed her...

Spliced new wire at the headlight for parking light and turn signal. Turn signal I ran new wire to the hazard light switch (green / black), Parking light I ran to the back of the headlight switch (grey / red). Tested, and everything seems to be running smooth now.

A huge sigh of relif on your part no doubt!!! Glad it turned out OK in the end

Use a new version of the old carpenters mantra next time - Check twice drill once!!!!

RB

[usaf-lt-g]

Fixed her...

Spliced new wire at the headlight for parking light and turn signal. Turn signal I ran new wire to the hazard light switch (green / black), Parking light I ran to the back of the headlight switch (grey / red). Tested, and everything seems to be running smooth now.

A huge sigh of relif on your part no doubt!!! Glad it turned out OK in the end

Use a new version of the old carpenters mantra next time - Check twice drill once!!!!

RB

LOL! For sure!!! Typically I'm the guy that does "ALL" of my research before diving into anything. Actually if you've seen any of my other posts, I literally try to design everything out and get all the facts before I do anything. Just so happened I thought my left was my right, and drilled the wrong spot. Yes HUGEEEE Sigh of relief now that everything is working exceptionally well ;)

BTW! I just want to say THANK YOU so much to all of you at Renntech. This site has become my Porsche Bible, and it's SO great to hear many of you are interested in making your Boxsters top notch and doing things the "right" way. Thanks again for everyone's support and help over all the posts!

Loren, you're the man! :cheers:

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