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Old 01-13-2009, 01:43 AM   #1
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My rear window defroster isn't working, so I pulled the plastic trim around the window and I found this plug. The other end of the plug isn't anywhere to be found.




Do any of you have any idea what this is for? I thought that maybe it's a rear window antenna type of thing, but why wouldn't it be hooked up?
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that looks like the plug for the defroster, it would explain why they don't work, no clue where the other end is
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But there is also brown wire and a black wire on either side of the defroster that are still there. I'm not reading a voltage on either of those. I would think that all the defroster needs is a positive and negative wire and the current runs across those. This wire seems to be separate from the whole defroster.

I think my defroster isn't working because of a wire in the dash. Someone stole the stereo from the previous owner of my car and they snipped all the wires that go to the 3-button defroster, a/c, and circulate thing. Both the a/c and the circulate features work fine but the defroster doesn't. I think I may have screwed up on one of the wires for the defroster and that is why it doesn't work.
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