Dip switch wiring

[biomed32uk]

This is a somewhat strange request, but does anyone have a picture of the dipswitch / toeboard area of a car please.

The wiring as it comes down has a metal clip to secure the wiring to the toeboard, I have removed all of the interior to paint the floor.

Coming to put it back together and I cant for the life of me find where the clip goes, even with the natural fall of the cable there seems to be no obvious hole for the self tapping screw and I cant imagine it would have got filled in with paint.

Either the fairies have sneaked in and filled the hole in, I am missing something obvious or just losing the plot.

[GavinL]

How's this?

[RobThomas]

Interesting. On the early cars the wiring ran the other side of the bulkhead and entered the switch from the engine bay. Now I've seen the photo above it suggests I might be able to easily move the switch up onto the dashboard to make it easier for my size 12s to dip the headlamps.

Always good to learn something new!!

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[biomed32uk]

Perfect thank you, so it is in that hole, it just didn't look right.

If early cars had the wiring coming from the engine bay it probably explains the odd metalwork under the plinth that the switch is mounted on, always wondered why something that it just screwed to the floor needed a recess and a piece of plate behind it. Looks like that was the factory design change.

[RobThomas]

Early dipswitch has screw-in terminals rather than a set of Lucar terminals in a plastic block and are a nightmare to put together after the steering is in place.

On LHD cars it is by the left heel, just next to that bag of bolts in the pic.

[GavinL]

if the photo is rotated by 90° when you view the post, it wasn't me When i view the post on my iphone or iPad mini it is the right way up.

[RobThomas]

Which way up are you holding yer phone???

[GavinL]

Pardon? Ah, that's better

[RustyOne]

How's this?

where is the picture?
Peter