Im replacing my late 85 w201 wiper motor with a "new" one. The motors are the same but the wiring socket seems to have different pin assignments.

Both sockets have six pins, with one vacant. Is it logical to hope that the tiny numbers on the sockets are relevant to each other, so that I can move the pins to match the chassis end of the socket or is that just wishful thinking?

Followup:

My wiper motor on my late 85 w201 began to fail this spring. THis is the oscillating monowiper type. The reason for the failure seems to b that the cover on the wiper arm was missing. letting grit into the oscillating arm and causing drag on the whole assembly. THe car is parked in the winter, so it gets gummy.

Anyway, the motor started smoking one day. Time to replace.

I went to my parts car, an early 84 model. IT does not have an oscillating wiper, but I was hopeful that the motor would work anyway. It didnt. (pn 390 241 302) That motor had a hardwired harness and wouldnt bolt up to the wipewr motor assembly.

My defective motor was missing its part number, but it had a wiring socket mounted on the plastic cover of the motor.

The one I bought off ebay (pn 390 241 425) had the right bolt pattern but the wrong wiring socket.

My original post was about the socket. When I plugged into the chassis plug my new motor, nothing happened. IT appears the wiring sequence
was changed for some reason.

The solution was to open up the chassis socket, and move the pins around to match the new motor. There are tiny numbers on both male and female sockets. The task is to match the color coded wires in the chassis to the numbers in the new motor. ITs not hard, but it takes time and paitience.
The point is that the assignments are changed, but you can use the tiny numbers on the sockets to get things oriented.

ONce that gets sorted out, the rest is just typical w201 struggling with zero space for everything that needs to go in. My wipers now work perfectly.