Jag customer bought and brought in this Bentley and someone has removed the connectors for both front air strut wiring connections. The strut has different wire colors than the vehicle harness, and without the connectors I have no idea of which wire to attach to which. Or if someone knows if polarity matters on those two wired on each strut top that would solve my dilemma as well.
We don't service Bentleys as a general rule so I have absolutely no information. And Alldata pretends that Bentley doesn't exist.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Randy

 

Hello @RandyWarren ,
Welcome to 6speedonline !

Here you go.

Question though, are the oem struts still in the vehicle ?

Johnny

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Thank you so much. The struts are Arnott and the wires in the pigtail on both struts are Brown and Green and the harness is as shown in the diagram (Right Slate/Red, Left Slate/White) I'm now off to Arnott to see if they can give me pin placement on their struts.
Thanks again
Randy

 

Hello @RandyWarren ,
You haven't said what the issue is with the vehicle, suspension fault message on the dash perhaps ?

As you stated that they are are-nots, you either have what are-not calls their "NEW in house design", which in fact has no electronic oem active dampening, and instead has a fixed valve for dampening, therefore they use a resistor to fool the suspension control module inside each strut, if you have what are-not calls their "remanufactured" struts, then they should be the used re-built oem factory struts, which would retain the active dampening, as these struts are just rebuilt, not remanufactured, as are-not does nothing to the used strut itself, besides painting it and putting a new air bladder assembly on it.

I do not believe that the polarity would matter are far as the resistor, or even on the oem, you could always try to hook up either way, it's only two wires, and the system protects itself from wiring faults, a scan of the suspension control module #34 with Ross-Tech VCDS or ODIS VAS 5054 will guide you as to hooking the wires up correctly.

Give us the part number of the are-not struts installed on the vehicle.

Johnny

 

The part number is AS-2581
I talked to arnott and they said these are the rebuilt units so it has the real valve. During the conversation though the tech also said he didn't believe that polarity shouldn't matter and that was my original thinking as well.
I am going to wire them both ways just to see if there is a difference
Original problem was warning light on and strut was down. Found and repaired the leak but still had the warning.

I will advise after wire repair

Thanks
​​​​​​​Randy

 

@RandyWarren ,
Be sure to slide the top rubber cover up the wire and test for leaks in this location.

Johnny

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