Broken wire on side marker pig tail
 

Hi all.



I broke the black wire on the pig tail that plugs into the hockey stick shaped socket that the side marker goes into. What's the best way to fix this? Is

Cut tape keeping the protective loom closed, remove the wire terminal from the connector, obtain a replacement with weather seal, crimp it on a new length of wire, cut the car's original wire back a bit, install new wire/terminal and splice in-line, heat shrink, tape up and re-loom the wiring, insert terminal into connector body until it locks.

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/s...KvO9A&usqp=CAcFrom Advanced auto parts, Dorman.

OP asked for the best way to fix this, not the worse. His wire is broken near the terminal at the base of the long plastic socket, what he needs to do is repair the wire, not chop off everything and install a universal socket that will fit badly.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/s...beWhA&usqp=CAcFrom Subaru. Better?

That's not what's broken. I broke the wire that goes into that socket.

and the reality is that the wire is broken too close to the socket to do anything.
the easy/standard fix is to replace the socket.

if one was in desperate need to retain the original oem socket for nostalgia and hotrod originality street cred, it would require a depinning tool, a crimper, and a replacement crimp. the depinning tool and crimper alone are going to run about $50, about twice the cost of the replacement socket.

You can depin a lot of connectors with a straightened paper clip, you can run to any pick-and-pull and grab a handful of similar-looking subaru lighting connectors for a few dollars, just keep a few inches of wire when you cut them off, that'll give you enough length to splice it inline.

That's what I do, except instead of going to a pick-and-pull, anytime we've got a wire harness to throw away, we don't. We've got a huge pile of wire harnesses in the attic and anytime I've got to repair a wire that's broken too close to the connector, I got up, grab something similar and repair.

The only other alternative presented in this thread is a universal 194 socket which won't fit.