Aston Martin V8 Vantage Workshop Manual page 338

The terminals in a connector housing can have a special
coating on them. This coating if required is selected using
the following criteria.
• A specific coating requested by component / system
owner.
Or
• The current passing through the terminal.
• The environment the connector is to be situated with
respect to temperature.
• The open circuit voltage passing through the terminal at a
given.
Depending on the above criteria the coating, if required, can
either be gold, silver, phosphor bronze. Generally tin is the
common plating on the terminals but there are some that are
gold. These are identified in the circuits with the letter 'G'
which stands for gold after the connector number. An
example of this is shown below.
Gold plated pin
October 2005
Wiring and Circuit Protection (18.01)
Electric Distribution/Electronic Control (18.00)
Splices
A splice is used where more than 2 wires that have the same
requirement i.e. they need the same signal and meet in the
same harness. In the example below the Front Position
Lamp-LH and Front Side marker-LH require the same
output signal from the CEM. Therefore the 2 wires for the
lamps are spliced into the output wire from the CEM on the
Forward Harness.
Splice No.
Associated name
Harness that the splice is on
Tracing Spliced Wires
Some splices appear on pages as a wire that goes to one spot
and seems to terminate in space. An example of this is
shown below.
Splice Origin Page
(e.g.P9)
Other Page(s) on which the splice occurs.
G
A separate page is attached containing a list of splice
abbreviations and the harness to which they refer.
Workshop Manual
SPL1 FLL FOR
18-1-7