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Warning to other 9-5 sedan owners!!! Tonight I wanted to install and run wiring for my XM radio antenna. I intended to see if I could run the XM antenna wire inside the flexible rubber boot that carries the tail light wires from inside the trunk area to the trunk lid. As you're looking at the rear of the car from behind with the trunk open, this is on the left side, running right next to the gas piston that holds the trunk up.
I gently pulled the rubber boot away from the hard plastic fitting on the trunk lid and OH MY GOD all off the wires are bent, crimped and the insulation is gone, with copper showing at each bent area and one of the wires is in fact broken!
This apparently has been a pinch point every single time the trunk was closed since this car was new. She's "new" to me, being a 2003 9-5 Aero.
As this presented an urgent situation, I soldered the broken wire and for lack of any other idea I could fathom, I used liquid electrical tape and coated the heck out of each wire. It's drying now. I'm hoping that by the morning it will be cured enough that I can close the trunk and not have to worry about the wires again.
Anyone else ever see this?
Posts in this Thread:
- Tail light wire harness chafing!!!, Saabpilot
, Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:47:34 <-- Viewing This Message- Re: Tail light wire harness chafing!!!, 20years, Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:37:44
- Re: Tail light wire harness chafing!!!, bobc
, Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:36:40 - Re: Tail light wire harness chafing!!!, TonyB, Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:40:09
- Wasn't there a TSB on earlier models for this?, SeeVTSaab, Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:15:43
- Happened to my wifes BMW 318, BenL, Thu, 1 Mar 2007 03:55:59
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