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What are these wires under the carpet?
Hi everyone. I’m just in the process of removing my factory rubber ‘carpets’ in the front of my 2010 90SW.

Under the drivers side, I’ve come across two wires and I don’t know what they are.

One runs from behind the dash, under the mat and into the seatbase near the handbrake. It is a very spindly black wire with some Tesa tape round it.



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The second might be an aerial, it comes from under the drivers seat and is taped to the front of the seatbox and ends in a crimp. Remote fob aerial maybe?



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Anybody know what they are? I’m mainly making sure that a previous owner or garage haven’t relocated something they shouldn’t have.
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Is the first wire for the handbrake switch perhaps?

Second wire looks aftermarket? Due to the way it’s taped to the seat box..? 2014 Keswick Utility 2.2
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I would (almost) put money on neither of those being there when the vehicle left the factory - not even Landrover would do something that shoddy! It is, I suspect, evidence of an inept previous owner.

The only sure way to find out what they are is to find the ends. Once you do this, all will become clear. Either that or cut them and see what no longer works.
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Blackwolf wrote:
Either that or cut them and see what no longer works.


AKA the ‘high risk strategy’ Laughing 2014 Keswick Utility 2.2
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I’ll have a good look once I’ve taken out the mats. The weird thing is that the one taped to the front of the seat box is buried under a load of factory foam - it doesn’t look right, but I can’t think why a PO would have removed the seat box rubber covering - that’s the only way they would have had access to tape it.

Edit: the start and end points of these wires look about right: https://www.lrworkshop.com/connectors/defender-2007/C0091

Just need to work out where the routing should have been. Working theory is that when the body was off while I was having the chassis galvanised that they’ve ran the wires through the can instead of under it.
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All I can say is that on my 2007 Puma there are no factory wires between the carpet and the floor.
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People extend the orange central locking/alarm antenna wire to extend the range of the keyfob... Could be something to look for > 110 XS Double Cab
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Have you got 13 pin or the 12S (aux - white/grey cap) tow electrics?  1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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hank wrote:
People extend the orange central locking/alarm antenna wire to extend the range of the keyfob... Could be something to look for


Tell me more Hank! My Key fobs has only ever worked when standing right next to the vehicle! Would love to get a bit more range!
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Martin wrote:
Have you got 13 pin or the 12S (aux - white/grey cap) tow electrics?


Just basic towing electrics Martin - a single 7-pin black (genuine LR) socket
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Co1 wrote:
hank wrote:
People extend the orange central locking/alarm antenna wire to extend the range of the keyfob... Could be something to look for


Tell me more Hank! My Key fobs has only ever worked when standing right next to the vehicle! Would love to get a bit more range!



Details in this link

https://defender90xs.blogspot.com/2014/11/...nsion.html

It's on my to do list. Craig.

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Co1 wrote:
hank wrote:
People extend the orange central locking/alarm antenna wire to extend the range of the keyfob... Could be something to look for


Tell me more Hank! My Key fobs has only ever worked when standing right next to the vehicle! Would love to get a bit more range!


There are many threads on it - this one has all the info you need Thumbs Up https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic3107.html > 110 XS Double Cab
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