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[woody78]

Just finishing off the last few bits of wiring on the mini now and am now about to start making my new dashboard. Ive gone 16v and will be using aftermarket gauges and was just wondering if anyone has a nice simple guide to the wiring block that plugs into the back of the dials?
I have looked through the Haynes manual but me and wiring diagrams dont get on! I would trace the wires on the dials but unfortunately I dont have them anymore!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks, Tom

[Aceslow]

What after market gauges are you looking to use?

[moss6273]

Try this for size:-
http://www.ilovemini.../haynesmini.pdf
I think you will need pages 12.34 & 12.36.
The trick is to locate the items which were on the instrument cluster eg. fuel gauge, temp gauge, ign warning light etc from page 12.34, find it on 12.36 and work your way back one item at a time.
If you still have problems, post here and I will try and do it for you.

[woody78]

Thanks for the replies! I managed to get hold of a gauge cluster over the weekend so I traced the wires off of that and double checked them against the wiring diagram.

The gauges I'm using are by RMD and are electronic but have analogue displays as wanted to keep it looking classic and also I dont like digital read-outs!

Ive wired up the rev counter so far and that works fine, looks nice too (will get a pic up somewhen!)

If it is any use to anyone the wires in the connector to the gauges are as follow:

1 - Righthand Indicator (Green/White)
2 - Fuel Gauge (Green/Black)
3 - Temperature Gauge (Green/Blue)
4 - Main Beam Warning Light (Blue/White)
5 - Earth (Black)
6 - Lefthand Indicator (Green/Red)
7 - Not used in my model
8 - Ignition Live (White)
9 - Not used in my model
10 - Ignition Warning Light (Brown/Yellow)
11 - Oil Pressure Light (White/Brown)
12 - Gauge Backlight (Red/Green)