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My Longchamp seems to have a quite extensive generic wiring harness. I earlier posted about the multiple wires running to under drivers feet, just cut, never found out what they were for. Power seats? Heated seats?

Now, in preparing for paint, I took the left door of, and found a wiring harness in the door with 5 sets of wiring. 3 are used: Power windows, power mirror, red light at back. 2 are just taped in. What could they be for?

Power door locks? Has there ever been a Longchamp with that, which would void the solenoid in the right door? And maybe a solenoid for a RHD drive car?

Any ideas? Just curious...
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Mikael;

Keeping in mind that there was really no such thing as a standard Longchamp, there could have been power seats. I can say that I know that my aunts car had two seats out of a Maserati. She loved the driver seat to be mounted on the passenger side, so she could reach the release without reaching over the seat. I do not recall heated seats, but then who knows what happened the "dealers" got the cars.
As for the door, to my knowledge none of the cars had window switches in the doors. The story here is that when the Thor was being modified, the switches were left in the door. Since it was a show car, they never sealed up the door, so when it rained - POOF. I was told that they did not like the idea of the switch in the door, so the Pantera, deauville and longchamp did not have them. But the number one rule applies, no such thing as a standard so maybe yours had them. My car 1981 has electric mirrors on both sides, but they were on the car originally and were removed some time later.
As for the door unlocking, I can say again my aunt's car had a switch under the dash for unlocking the door. Same reason as before, she did not like leaning over. I know she added it in the late seventies as I remember summer of 1977 she complained about opening the door for us when we visited. I recall that it was added before I worked in the factory in 1979, and that when she pressed the button the door unlocked and opened. I think it was therefore attached to the handle but can not be sure now.

Good luck in your wiring journey and keep us in the loop.

We.
Wellis, what is Thor?

Yes, window switches in the door controlling both sides of course, might require the extra wires. Also a bit strange though is that they're very long. Maybe for back doors for Deauville.

The switch to unlock and open the right door, I have that. It works with a solenoid, and in
fact the door is never locked, but the outside handle doesn't work, you can only open the door via the button or inside handle. So you don't have to reach over to open, and you don't have to reach over to unlock/lock. Brilliant in fact
I have the Vitaloni mirrors, the electric ones that are slightly bigger than the non-electric ones. The forward facing black metal could use a respray, does anyone know how to take them apart? Or can I just remove the rubber ring and later push it back in, arrow? Suggestions?

(A suggestion from me, my mirrors initially vibrated at speed, so years ago I put metal plates with nuts on the inside and replaced the mirror screws with bolts. Almost solved the problem, you have to go a lot faster to get the vibration now)

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Welding is over, unless more comes up during the disassembly. Phew. Took a few months, if I had to pay for it, some patches might have been better, but I would have been ruined...

My painter and his wife was here Saturday, all agreed. You don't have a painter as a friend? Go out and find one to befriend!

Disassembly completed from windshield and back. And then all the details. 1-2 days work I think.

A picture from earlier in the process...

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@wellis posted:
Mikael;

Keeping in mind that there was really no such thing as a standard Longchamp, there could have been power seats. I can say that I know that my aunts car had two seats out of a Maserati. She loved the driver seat to be mounted on the passenger side, so she could reach the release without reaching over the seat. I do not recall heated seats, but then who knows what happened the "dealers" got the cars.
As for the door, to my knowledge none of the cars had window switches in the doors. The story here is that when the Thor was being modified, the switches were left in the door. Since it was a show car, they never sealed up the door, so when it rained - POOF. I was told that they did not like the idea of the switch in the door, so the Pantera, deauville and longchamp did not have them. But the number one rule applies, no such thing as a standard so maybe yours had them. My car 1981 has electric mirrors on both sides, but they were on the car originally and were removed some time later.
As for the door unlocking, I can say again my aunt's car had a switch under the dash for unlocking the door. Same reason as before, she did not like leaning over. I know she added it in the late seventies as I remember summer of 1977 she complained about opening the door for us when we visited. I recall that it was added before I worked in the factory in 1979, and that when she pressed the button the door unlocked and opened. I think it was therefore attached to the handle but can not be sure now.

Good luck in your wiring journey and keep us in the loop.

We.

Hi William,

many years ago you helpfully posted a link to a series 1 longchamp wiring diagram. Unfortunately that link seems to have expired. Do you or does anyone else still have a copy of that diagram? Is that something that could be posted here? I’ve been battling with alternator wiring that is similar to the pantera, but just enough different to make it hard to trace so would really appreciate some clues.
Peter

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