Today I was cleaning my engine bay, removing caked oil/dirt crap. I removed the grille so I could clean thoroughly around the radiator and found a disconnected cable that I can't figure out where it belongs. It comes from the drivers side and reaches as far as the centre of the grille (see pics). It is not from the fog light, neither the ambient temp sensor, I thought I could be the horn cable but as far as I can see it is connected and it works normally.

As far as I know it seems that it has been disconnected since I own the car (a little more than 2 years now), but haven't really noted any malfunction. The car is a 2004 coupe. Any help is appreciated.

 

That's the hood latch sensor connector.

 

Both horns connected?

 

The horns use blade connectors.

 

I thank both of you for your quick responses. I didn't know the car had such sensor, neither what are the consequences of having it disconnected, because as I mentioned before, I haven't noticed any malfunction with the car. I will check tomorrow if I can see where it belongs, but I have the feeling that I won't find anywhere to connect it.

I'm saying that because this car was in crashed and "restored" (not so well) before I bought it, apparently nothing too serious, mainly aesthetics: damage to the driver's side front fender, broken headlight, damaged bumper, radiator upper support, as well as the grill. Now that I found this loose cable, I'm guessing it's going to remain loose, but I'm gonna check tomorrow under the daylight.

Thank you again. This forum has helped me a lot to know my car and also to save some cash.

 

Well, I checked the issue again, and as I thought, there's nowhere I can plug the wire to. The latch only has the mechanical part, I searched the forum and found how the sensor looks like, the plastic part attached to the latch, and my car doesn't have such sensor, only the latch itself. I'm wondering if it is worth it to try to get the part since my car acts normal. Haven't had any issues with the alarm of similar problems, it's just that it kind of annoys me to know my car is "incomplete".

Thank you for your help, and as always, any input/opinion is welcomed.