Can I convert/adapt my car cabin light connectors

HUBERT PIRES

MEMBER
1999 FORD FIESTA
2WD
MANUAL
175,000 MILES

My car lost the cabin light in an accident 1 year ago, and I bought by mistake a cabin light with one less connector for it. It isn't for Fords I think, since it doesn't turn on the lights when I connect it.

But anyways, do you think that I can appropriate and adapt this one I got for my car?
My car has what I think it's the "Power Connector" which is the bigger one in the image, and then the what I think it's the "controller", a smaller connector (in black): https://ibb.co/DtxRt46

My car:
> Ford Fiesta Techno
> 1999
> Zetec 1.25 12V

More photos: https://ibb.co/L1FjmRH, https://ibb.co/YcjFtLR
It is hard to find a similar cabin light for my car since it's old...

1 Reply

KASEKENNY

MECHANIC
18,907 POSTS

Hi,

Do the cabin lights work with it having just this one connector plugged in?

What appears happened is you got a lamp assembly that was for a lower line vehicle. I don't show what the other connector is for but if the light work with just that connector plugged in then I would just secure that other connector up out of the way and not worry about it.

In other words, your vehicle has other options that are in that other connector that this lamp assembly does not have.

If not then unfortunately that other connector on your vehicle cannot be connected to the lamp assembly and get it to work.