TECH : Request for Help about MFA

[juliemac57@hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

Since we are on the subject, I have an MFA and the speed sensor does not 
seem to work. What does the sensor connect to and where?



Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
www.menloparkrandd.com
www.montgomeryweb.org
Amsterdam NY





>From: "ATS - Patrick Bureau" <txrocco@sbcglobal.net>
>To: "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu>
>CC: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: TECH : Request for Help about MFA
>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:35:50 -0600
>
>Okay so the wires from the stalk go to the cluster correct, aside from
>inputs from oil and air temps?
>
>see with the digifiz. I get confused because well wires are the same colors
>at all (golf 88 thing) hehehe....
>
>ARrrrrrrgggghhhh!
>
>back to the garage I go...
>
>ATS - Patrick Bureau - txrocco@sbcglobal.net
>
>
>=>-----Original Message-----
>=>From: T. Reed [mailto:treed2@u.washington.edu]
>=>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:01 AM
>=>To: Patrick Bureau
>=>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>=>Subject: Re: TECH : Request for Help about MFA
>=>
>=>
>=>Patrick,
>=>
>=>Here is some information on those wires from my notes of when I did my 
>MFA
>=>install (almost 2 years ago):
>=>
>=>mfa switch:
>=>T7a/2 -> G/BK T4a
>=>T7C/1 -> GY/R T4a
>=>T7/3 -> GY/Y T4a
>=>ground -> BR T4a
>=>
>=>outside temp sensor:
>=>T7/2 -> BR
>=>T7/4 -> BK
>=>
>=>oil temp sensor:
>=>T7b/2 -> G/BK
>=>
>=>T4a is the four-wire connector that you're talking about, except I think
>=>the info above is for the other end of the connector (not the switch end)
>=>and the wire colors change between the two.
>=>
>=>T7, T7a, T7b and T7c are all connectors on the gauge cluster. I can't
>=>remember how they're paired up but each physical connector has two of
>=>those four, one on each "half" of the connector. Kinda hard to explain.
>=>
>=>You will definitely need a bentley to dicipher this information.. and I
>=>can't guarantee that it's correct, since my car is an '87 16v scirocco,
>=>my gauge cluster is an 8v mutant-cluster with 16v 8k tach and 140mph
>=>speedo and the mfa portion is from an '86 8v golf. IIRC, though.. the 
>golf
>=>and scirocco wiring colors were the same.
>=>
>=>If your car did not come with MFA, the harness will not be there, you 
>need
>=>to pull it from a junkyard car. So don't plug the 4 wire connector in to
>=>anything without knowing its for the mfa first! The cruise switch uses 
>the
>=>same type of connector, so be careful.
>=>
>=>I did reverse-engineer the wires for the cruise switch (and I can give 
>you
>=>a meaning for each wire if you want) but I didn't bother with the mfa
>=>since i had both bentleys at the time and I just wanted to get the mfa
>=>working.
>=>
>=>Hope this is helpful somehow (i doubt it!)
>=>
>=>-Toby
>=>
>=>On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Patrick Bureau wrote:
>=>
>=>> Alright I am trying to install MFA stalk into my non
>=>> MFA 85 rocco, I removed the nonmfa arm and working on
>=>> the wirring.. the question I have...
>=>>
>=>> 1. there are 4 wires  (blue, white red and yellow)
>=>> coming from teh stalk does anyone know what they are
>=>> for?
>=>>
>=>> 2. My car has Cruise (non functional) control, and I
>=>> noticed a similar plug (4 wires, different order)
>=>> under the dash, should I use this connector?
>=>>
>=>> 3. are the plug under dash that connects currently to
>=>> the cruise control, match color per color on the plug
>=>> for the MFA wires?
>=>>
>=>> Then to figure out the MFA->digifiz wire
>=>> connections..lol
>=>>
>=>>
>=>>
>=>> =====
>=>>
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