Hi All. When M4DDOG pulled my cupholders a few months back, we found this

http://i416.photobucket.com/albums/pp247/kiwilad66/DSC_3387.jpg

He wasn't sure what it was. I've finally got round to taking a photo, and am interested in what it is. It looks like it has a terminator on the end. I was thinking something to do with a tippy gearbox, but I'm not 100% that they were available in the TF range.

Took a quick look through the Haines and couldn't see anything quite like it.

Help? Just interested in knowing what it would be for.

Regards, Tony

M4DDOG doesn't know what it is? his electric seat is connected to it lol

its for the mobile phone kit it has power and mute

I have one too in my Manual TF, NFI what its for though

I have one too in my Manual TF, NFI what its for though
Optional flux capacitor?

']Optional flux capacitor?

:doh: How did I not know that?? Ive had mine sitting in the boot running off the amp power!! Kept jumping all over the damn place :rant:

']Optional flux capacitor?
Can you hook your evo wing to it or do you need to whine more lol

its for the mobile phone kit it has power and mute

So, if I could find the mobile phone kit, it could plug into here? Ah, but would it still need the original Magna stero system which is long gone from my car...

Regards, Tony

Would this be a good source to get ACC power for other applications?

Pretty sure that this is the plug for the US/JAP Diamante leather seat heaters.
The switches are found just above it on the mid consoles of the overseas models.
Might even have something to do with the sat nav aswell,maybe main power outlet for it.

Pretty sure that this is the plug for the US/JAP Diamante leather seat heaters.
The switches are found just above it on the mid consoles of the overseas models.
Might even have something to do with the sat nav aswell,maybe main power outlet for it.

So are Magna's that tied into the whole Japanese design? The factory in Adelaide simply got the plans and followed them religiously?? If so, I'll really have to seriously look at getting parts from NZ Diamante's as they are the Japanese assembled vehicles.

Regards, Tony

its for the mobile phone kit it has power and mute

it is for the fone kit.

I have to add my opinion that this connector is the Phone Kit Connection, and is shown on the Factory Work shop Manual wiring diagrams as such (see Sticky Thread at top of Tech Torque, for links to downloadable PDFs of the Mitsubishi Manuals).

The plastic you see is the "back" of a 4-pin wiring connector which Mitsi generously provide - look for the little "squeeze clamp" on one edge, pull at the plastic, and you'll see a 4-pin female spade-lug plug, which is bolted to the metal bracket. You can go to Jaycar or Dick Smith and buy a blister-pack of unshielded Male Spade Lugs which you crimp or solder onto wirs=es and the male lugs slide into and lock in place.

The four pins are : Switched Power (on when Ign at Acc or "On"), Unswitched Power (always on), Earth, and Stereo Mute. VERY handy for wiring in extra power sockets!!!!

I also wire in a switch, so I can make my extra accessory sockets either switched or unswitched. (I find this useful, so on occasion I can lock a phone or handheld UHF in the car and charge it). In my Sports I have the "switched-or-unswitched-power-to-accessory-sockets" switch mounted in the side of the console in a spot usually obscured by drivers seat. In the Verada I mounted this switch on the gear-surround panel, just ahead of the cupholders. You need a "on/on" rocker switch.

I run back to a single cig socket under the oddment bin (ie: under armest b/w seats), and use a 3 or 4 socket accessory adaptor connected to that. I keep phone cord and hand-UHF cord poking out the gap where armrest lock should engage. Also have Ipod power cords connected, as well as Tom Tom cord.

As many sockets as I manage to hook up, I get bloody gadgets to plug in!! Am thinking of running a cig-socket somewhere near steering column, and relocating Tom Tom connection there - I like the navigator nr drivers A-pillar, so I can operate right-handed.

I found one in my TH, its burried deep in about 3" of random wiring now (lost it after I removed the hands free kit and installed the neons)

Phone kit makes sense. I have a wire going into and out of that same connector. There's screw holes all over my console box and there was a taped-off wire going back under the dash from it as well, which I removed.

Maybe its the continuum transfunctioner?


Or not. I'd say phone kit is the go.

Its for a Phone car kit.

Im using it in my KH. You can buy plugs that fit that plug(phone car kit shops) with blank wires to connect up to your car kit.
When the phone rings or when you make a call, it mutes the radio. It also gives power for the phone.
It actually says 'TELEPHONE' on the radio display when the phone is in use.

Thanks people, great and comprehensive answers. Think I'll look at using the power available in the to run a cig lighter to the back to power the kids DVD players.

Regards, Tony

That is actually a connection for the option of a sucworth that was for the audio/phone system. They where only an option on the earlier models and as there wasnt many poeple take the $330 option it was discontinued as a option through mits new. Is available aftermarket though and will plug straight in and costs nearly half mits price..:)

can someone give me a little hand. im in the process of wiring up a genuine nokia handsfree kit & i am using this plug. the problem im having is that the radio is not muting with the kit wired up, but if i earth out the pin with blue wire on the vehicle side of the plug without the kit plugged in the radio mutes & displays "tel" on the radio. whats going on?

Might seem a silly suggestion, but have you got the Nokia mute wire in the right "corner" of the car-kit plug - ie: Nokia mute wire matches the blue wire in the car loom?

I've never had a Nokia kit in my car's (yet) but they must be a very common fitment (and one of my cars had the remnants of Nokia stuff in the dash (speaker zip-tied to steering column, mic folded-up under a=pillar trim).

I only make this suggestion cos I've got myself horribly confused looking at the male/female ends of that connector, and trying to "flip" the wiring diagrams in my mind as I place lug pins into the blank plug.

yeah, i checked that twice. any other ideas?

May be a sully suggestion but isnt there a setting on the phones to Mute radio's etc...?

the set up in the phone is right as far as i can tell. i was thinking maybe a changover relay might be needed. maybe the signal from the car kit triggers a relay which in turn earths the pin on the vehicle side of the plug which mutes the radio.i only say htis because without anything connected if you earth out the blue wire it mutes the radio.