Hi All 👋

I will keep it short and sweet. When changing a blown Cig lighter fuse, I spotted some dodgy (pic attached)

Chat GPT and Google Gemini think it's for a dash cam, I can't follow the wires and did not want to go pulling til I asked here.

So both wires are plugged into a black 10 fuse. After that, I have no idea where they go.

I texted the previous owner, and he said he has no idea what it is. I looked at the fuse diagram and couldn't picture what they could be doing.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Edited: This is in a 2010 Mk2 vRS TDI

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I looks to me that the wires go the supply side of the fuse location; that is to say the only protection for the wires is an up-supply side fuse of 30A or greater. That will not provide protection to those wires and could cause a fire under fault conditions.

Unplug/remove them now. This is a bodge by someone who is not a trained electrician.

I agree unplug them and tape over ends just in case. If nothing stops working I would leave them alone. If for any reason something doesnt work then you may have to trace them back. It may be someone has lost a live feed and jumped the fuse box instead of finding the original fault. Have had smoke out of a few fuse boxes/burnt out wires over time due to idiots either increasing amps of a fuse 'cause the original keeps blowing' or they have no idea what their doing and are running low current devices of a high current circuit without inline protection

Alasdair

The car has some aftermarket LED headlights installed, I think this could be a

CANBUS anti-error module.

Unplug them and if your headlights fail/stop working then maybe a decent autoelectrician for help or change them back to standard. I am in the process of trying to remove an aftermarket imobiliser on a MK1 mazda Eunos/MX5. Absolute nightmare trying to work out how to remove it and reconnect original wiring plus the quality of work is shocking. Wires cut and just twisted together with minimal insulation and in some cases none.

Alasdair