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Old 05-02-2011, 09:18 AM
rayhennig rayhennig is offline
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Depends which car you have, I imagine.

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Originally Posted by kchemers View Post
Can I splice a new sensor on to the old wire hanging on the front of the car? I don't want to run a new cable from the dash all the way to the front bumper.
Thanks
On my 1991 300CE-24 the new sensor came with a length of cable terminated with some sort of connector. It was a simple matter to install the sensor in the bumper and route the cable through the engine compartment and connect it to the mating connector under the fuse box. Easy, took ten minutes.

Some years before I had successfully spliced a sensor (recovered from a wreck) into the twin-core wire, just behind the mounting in the bumper. I soldered it and sheathed the cables individually with heat-shrink sleeving. Again, so problem and it lasted several years.

RayH
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