Lamp harness bracket help

Keep looking until you find a mechanic that is willing to actually repair the old harness. He needs to think in terms of jumper wires, heat shrink tubing and some good epoxy..

 

Confused --- Are you fixing this yourself ?

Is the actual electrical plug broken -- it looks intact. What does it plug into?

I just had our 11 five apart for a new bumper cover. The turn and fog lights on our car did have a common connector on the driver side so you could disconnect the bumper assembly with the lights intact on the bumper .... yours looks different. The wires to the fog and turn on the driver side are in your palm ..correct?

If the plug is broken -- the solution is to cut one from a wreck and splice in --- the other way would be to eliminate it entirely.

 

Or is it more like the original post seemed to be saying, no damage to the wiring, but only to the plastic bracket that stands that plug off from the wheel well?

I am pretty sure I have had that plug disconnected from that bracket, back when I was adding fogs. Like most harness plugs attaching to brackets, it has a post with some "wings" you have to squeeze to separate it. It was really really really annoying while the bracket was in place, because the wings to be squeezed were behind it, but will probably be very easy for you, as the bracket is already loose.

Then just find another Gen 3 in a salvage yard and harvest the bracket from it (it will be really really really annoying, but possible), and click it onto your harness, and attach it to the car.

-Chap

Edit: I wonder if it could be this animal, or this one? The diagram is hard to follow, and the images are terrible, so I'm not sure. It would be a twelve dollar gamble.