Wiring the front lights

I think I mentioned in an earlier post that the headlights and front indicators have a lot of excess wiring. On factory cars this all appears to be pushed back through the holes in the inner wing - connected together with bullet connectors and bundled up - in a place which is pretty awkward to get to

I didn't fancy doing this.... so instead I got hold of some proper waterproof headlamp connectors and cut the loom and lamp wires back. There are four wires to each headlight and two to each indicator. However the indicators have wires that loop out to the side repeaters. Because most waterproof connectors employ wire seals that only work on single wires - you need to use a four way connector for the indicators but loop the wires like this:

The rest is straightforward if a little cramped working inside the wheelarch. The two connectors were fixed to the inner wing with two p-clips with a single fixing:

A much tidier job.... and much easier to remove the lights when it is eventually time for painting. One thing I've noticed.... all these small jobs seem to take longer than I thought?