Crimp vs. Solder & wire coloring?

Mark L. Chang mchang at ee.washington.edu
Tue Dec 2 20:04:45 EST 2003


On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:08:17PM -0500 or thereabouts, Huw Powell wrote:
> >Anyway, I'd like to get the lists thoughts on crimp versus solder.
> 
> No!  Hehe, ok the consensus (!?) on that was to do whatever you are 
> equipped and experienced to do properly.  I think.  Probably with an 
> edge in favor of crimping.

Heh... agreed. Like the T*rsen thread, only a little less nasty :).

> >Anybody know offfhand what the wiring colors are for the headlights?
> 
> yellow = low, white = high, brown = ground.

Or, if you're me... blue, blue, and more blue. Guess what I had a big
spool of?

> Ah, ok.  Crimp them on, leaving nice lengths of wire to attach later to 
> your new harness(es).  I forget the pin arrangement of an H4 bulb, but I 
> suspect it is either on my website somewhere, or on someone else's.

http://www.audiquattro.org/tech/h4bulbwiring.html

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