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Hi chaps. I've googled this but I'm not getting any answers.

I have been chasing an intermittent fault with my lights and alarm for a short while. Side lights and head lights not working, then working, then not working, then alarm siren goes off when light switch moved to side light position, then fine for 2 months, then stopped working completely! Fun fun

Anyway tracked it down today to a melted blue header (0287) behind the lower dash. The problem is I can't find anywhere that sells these connections. They are made by sumitomo and are a 090 hm series, but seemingly cannot be bought.

Can anyone advise? Or better yet does anyone have one going spare, beer tokens will obviously be paid

It may be a trip to the scrapyard to source one otherwise

Pics of offending header are below

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Best not connect them all together!! Some of those have separate spacers and one connector can feed a few different things, got them on my 200Tdi Disco just in grey and black.

Can you take a close up picture of the inside of the top and the base please, if I still have some on the old 300Tdi Disco loom I will post to you FOC.

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Hi Nigel thanks for the kind offer, however I pm'd Paul and he will supply me with one and the new terminals I need also. Cheers anyway much appreciated

You are correct though, the connector splices 4 seperate circuits. You can't just join all the wires together but you can join all the blacks together, all the browns together, etc

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I've already PM'ed Ben (bigbeast) :)

I have these headers new, with new terminals, in six colours, including Blue.

As Nigel has said, these headers are not all one circuit, they're sub-divided.

Black

Sub-divided into five circuits -

HMSplice-Black-Circuits.jpg

Blue

Sub-divided into four circuits -

HMSplice-Blue-Circuits.jpg

Green

Sub-divided into four circuits -

HMSplice-Green-Circuits.jpg

Grey

Sub-divided into three circuits -

HMSplice-Grey-Circuits.jpg

Orange

Sub-divided into six circuits -

HMSplice-Orange-Circuits.jpg

Yellow

Sub-divided into five circuits -

HMSplice-Yellow-Circuits.jpg

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I don't want to clutter up a tech thread, but just wanted to say kudos to PauMc - brilliant info you share on all things electrical.

I wish I'd know this a couple of years back when I had a blue earthing header melt on my td5 ! I used push fit headers from CPC, not as compact or factory as this.

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Anderzander it was in fact your old thread about that which prompted me to check my header as we had the same fault issues.

looks like it's quite a common-ish fault. Seen a few threads from the various other forums which had the same issue too, all had the same knackered header

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looks like it's quite a common-ish fault. Seen a few threads from the various other forums which had the same issue too, all had the same knackered header

I too found some of mine corrupt and yes not from the under dash fire either :P

Based on that I am wondering if there is a specific amp/current rating per block???

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