Front turn signals, need wiring help Options

[mikey]

I'm sorting out the wiring to the front turn signals. I have the US ones (orange) rather than the Euro ones (orange/clear). There's one bulb with 2 filaments in in each receptacle. The terminals on the back of both the left and the right receptacles are BL, 31 and 57. I'm installing a new (factory) wiring harness.

I have three wires coming out of the harness in both right and left fenders. On the left side there's a brown wire, a black/white wire, and two wires together (gray/red and either gray/black or white/black). On the right side there's a brown wire, a gray/red wire, and a black/green wire. Can anyone tell me which wire goes to which terminal?

TIA

[Dave_Darling]

If you ever forget, you can figure it out for yourself.

Brown wires are ground wires in our cars. Always, unless someone's been hacking things up. The ground for any light bulb socket is the side of the socket. So use your ohmmeter (or continuity tester) to check which of the three tabs on the back is electrically connected to the side of the socket. That's the ground, and gets the brown wire.

The "hot" wires will connect to the two metal tabs you can see down at the very bottom of the socket. And frankly, it doesn't really matter which one you attach where...

--DD