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has anyone made their own "loom" for the larger electric mirrors, or have a wiring diagram to hand,

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Lee, I've got several pdfs and docs on wiring them up on my pc at work and a loom in a bag waiting to be fitted I could take some snaps of and email you if you pm me your address. I was planning on making a loom myself but found a chap on ebay breaking a corrado who stripped the whole loom out complete and supplied the switch for £20. The only mod you'd have to make to a corrado loom is to extend the +ve from o/s to the fuse box.

Mike

Yes and Yes.

I built one out from scratch using a salvaged wiring loom.

Here is the diagram.
The wire colour match the original colours.
I soldered the wires direct to the switch and mirror loom because I could not source the plugs.



If I were to do it again I would rip the mirror loom out of any VW of a similar age (e.g. 88 Passat, which also uses the same switch and plugs).

thanks for the replies ... im wondering whether its worth the agro

no agro at all if you can find a corrado or passat in the scrapies, mirror loom is seperate to the rest of the car loom so it comes out easily then just plugs in

The tricky bit is converting LHD mirrors to RHD.

mike_gee32 wrote:no agro at all if you can find a corrado or passat in the scrapies, mirror loom is seperate to the rest of the car loom so it comes out easily then just plugs in

The tricky bit is converting LHD mirrors to RHD.

mike i will be intouch mate, hows the caravelle coming along , mines a lhd so no issues there ...Lee

It's nearly on the road Should have been done much earlier but I was ill over the summer and had 5 weeks off work, that was hell not being well enough to go out in the nice(ish) weather and having to look at the two vans sitting there

Spent the last month working on it every chance I could and have now swapped engines and refitted it and gearbox, replaced brake hoses, shocks, calipers, discs, most of the brake pipes, front to rear water pipes, fuel hoses, anti roll bar.

Still got the welding to do on the n/s inner arch - looks like it's had a previous repair not done very well, really thin steel tack welded in so I'm going to remove that and do it properly. Found a crispy hole in the windscreen surround - hopefully can bodge it with lots of silicone over the winter then sort it properly next year. Then the interior to sort out and it will be useable.

It went for a MOT last week, failed on the welding (obviously but I wanted to check if there was anything else wrong) and brake imbalance, hopefully just needs bleeding again. I've got to sort the gear linkage out, cant' get 1st or reverse, tweaked it following Aidans advice and it worked for 10miles (to the MOT station) then couldn't get reverse to take it off the ramp so I'll probably stick a few new bushes in it and hope.

Once it's MOT'd I've got to decide whether to fit my square headlamps, leccy mirrors and spoiler or keep it original and sell them, then get the LPG kit in.

I'll get some pics so you can see how it looks.

Mike