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I am having a small electrical problem. My car will only work if this plug is not plugged in. Other wise it just shorts when I attached the battery terminals. Does anyone know what it is for? It is the middle plug located under the fuse box in the engine bay pictured below.

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Thanks.

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I don't understand. It would make sense if something didn't work, but you didn't know where to connect the plug. But if everything works when this plug is left unconnected to anything, what exactly is the problem?

When I had projector headlights I had 2 spare cables with plugs tied off.

Replaced with N1's and those 2 plugs came in very handy! They go in the fog lights in the headlights.

As per above if it's not stoping anything then it is surplus for now.

It's not uncommon to have "spare" plugs hanging off the loom. Quite often, manufacturers design the loom to suit multiple models within the range. Some models don't have the bit that a certain plug on the loom connects to in another model.

It's not uncommon to have "spare" plugs hanging off the loom.

The female partner to that plug is there in the picture (but its black so hard to see) - that's how OP knew where to plug it.

It sounds like there's a wiring fault so the previous owner of your car just disconnected the plug rather than fix the fault. You could follow the wires if you're really keen to see where it goes, but seeing as how you're not missing anything it would be a lot of work just to satisfy your curiosity.

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