Dashboard Wiring Question

I am getting ready to re-install the upper dash and inspected the wiring and came across two areas that I need some help with. Car is an 85 Mondial QV coupe (euro)...

The first is in the picture below where for some reason the red/black, black and green wires have been repaired and the green wire had a scotch lock (or whatever added). I am trying to figure out what that plug and those wires are for.

Instinct says to open up these taped areas, remove the scotch lock thingy and do proper spices but I'd welcome any insights on what this might be about...

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The second "issue" is that I found this pink/black wire in a different connector with nothing connected. What is this for? Where should it be connected? Thanks - otherwise the wiring looks good on the upper dash

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any dashboard wiring experts out there who can weigh in on this? Thanks!

 

Mike - these are the wires in the top picture (which has the splices and the scotch lock):
- Green
- Black
- Red/Black
- Yellow/White
- Green/White
- Light Blue/Red
- Yellow
- Blue

I can get the colors of the wires for the connector in the second picture later this week when I get to my garage. Thanks for helping out - Joe

 

Thank you - I have a few different wiring diagrams for 85 euro mondial from steve magnusson and afterburner and also saw the SN reference a few times. That is the second picture with the open molex connector - not sure what to do with that...On an 85 Mondial the two electronic ignition modules are in the engine compartment and this car has the magneti marelli 803a boxes. Would also like to figure out what the plug in the first picture is for and why those wires might have been repaired

 

My mistake - here's a blow up of the wires in the first pic (except for the green and black which are also in that connector) - I guess that wire is either yellow/pink or pink/yellow?

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Mike - the boxes in the engine compartment are the digiplex ignition boxes:

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These are the ignition coils:

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Guido - I will check numbers 58 and 44 (car has fog lights).

What do you mean "I do not see any split on the diagram." ?

Thank you for looking at this - Joe

 

Guido - this is very helpful and your speculation on why there is an extra green wire makes sense as this car was in fact imported to the US in 1985 and "federalized."

I have no experience with electronic speedometers so I am going to assume that whoever made these changes knew more about electronic speedometers and speedo pulse generators than I.

Really appreciate your help here - if you remember, my car was non-running when acquired so I don't know if the speedo was working correctly.

I will open up these taped splices and check them, re-solder and add some heat shrink. Do you have any other recommendations on how to approach this?

Thank you - Joe

 

With Guido's help and using the factory wiring diagrams and colored version from afterburner, I believe this is the connector I was asking about...

Guido - can you please confirm? Thank you

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For the second picture with the pink/black wire with the connector that wasn't connected to anything, I found this on afterburner's drawings which shows an unused pink/black - Do we think this is the wire I was asking about? Thanks everyone - Joe

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This is a pic of the speedo which, given that this is a euro car, appears to have had the face replaced to prioritize MPH vs. km/h - Thoughts as it relates to Guido's speculation on the "extra" green wire. Why would they have to add a green wire to convert the speedo from km/h to MPH?

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