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I mesured today the resistance of all the wires of the 2 coilovers, and came up with this result : Only the RED and BLUE wires are directly connected togather. I mesured 20 Ohms as a resistance on each coilover, but no resistance for all the other wires.

Wow, thanks to everyone for all the answers already. Very happy with that. Well, before posting that new thread here I tried all the possible ways to know how to connect these before asking here. I haven't tried to ask Land Rover but I think it would be worthless. I contacted Bilstein about these, and they phoned me back telling me they had never made such shocks, and that the stepper motors were fitted by some tuners to compete with late top specs group A cosworths. I also spoken with an ex-Ford Motorsport about these, and he told me they were Land Rover ones, but nothing more, as he said it was very rare, and not used on the Escort. Yes, a lot of development made on the Sierra has been used on the Escort, but these shocks haven't been homologated by the FIA, so not been used on the works car (I do have the complete FIA homologation papers for all the parts). So yes I will mesure this weekend all resistances between the wires and post the results there, here are 2 more pictures of the top of the shock where you can see where comes out the wires, but I don't think it helps very much. I asked on another "french speaking forum" (I come from Switzerland but my native language is french, grrrr) but they all have never seen stepper motors used on Land Rovers, so this forum proven to be the place where I could get the answers, which is great to know. So I will mesure everything on saturday and post the results there, but thanks again for all the answers already.

Hello lads, Sorry to start a new thread like this, but I really need your help. I own a Ford Sierra Cosworth group A (rally car), and I have rear Bilstein magnesium coilovers ready to go on the car for the next event, but they have been modified in a rather unusual way in the Cosworth world. I had to speak with an ex-Ford Motorsport engineer about them, and he told me they have fitted "LAND ROVER" stepper motors inside, so you can live-adjust them in-car. I had never seen this before, and was very lucky to come accross that engineer, because they seems to be very rare. The problem is that there are 5 wires going out of each shock, and I have absolutely no idea of how they are connected. I would say I have to use relays, fuses, and switch to choose between the few positions of the stepper motors, but have really got no idea. Here is a picture to show you the wires : I would think the BLACK one is earth, RED is live 12+, but then what about the 3 others ? I know I don't own a Land Rover, but you must have heard of these adjustable stepper motors before ? Any help is welcome, and I would be very greatful to this forum if I can connect these shocks to go back rallying. Thanks in advance, Matt.