Electric Mirrors. Fixing and wiring

Post by **lbyford** » 22 Jun 2006, 11:22

Hi All

I have bought a complete (LHD) set of mirrors which have come with the full wiring loom and switch. I have two questions for anyone who has retro fitted these:

1. The third screw fixing at the bottom of each mirror. So this is there to support the additional weight of these over the basic mirror. There is no hole in my doors on the outside is there likely to be a captive nut already there when I remove the door card?

2. Wiring. I have the full loom so it should be relatively straightforward to get going. There are 3 wires to connect to the existing electrics. Red- surely live 12v feed; brown - pretty sure this is earth. But also a Green/white wire - I am not sure what this is for perhaps the mirrors are heated or is it something else?

Thanks very much

Lee.

Post by **Aidan** » 22 Jun 2006, 13:25

Lee
the bottom bolt goes into a rivnut normally, not fitted unless needed. You can just use a nylock but the access from behind is pants.
The green/white is the heater elements, normally connected to the heated rear window circuit which is the same colour - if you haven't got a hrw then you can add a switch and circuit, very useful in deepest winter.
Be prepared for the switch to work backwards, ie l is r mirror, up is down, and in is out, cos the switch has changed sides, that's what I found - though mine were rhd mirrors and switch with lhd loom - would be possible to rectify but I'm used to it now.....
regards
Aidan

Post by **lbyford** » 22 Jun 2006, 14:06

Cheers I suspected it might be that. I guessed the mirrors would be swapped against the switch although i would have thought up would still be up and that has not changed. I will re-label the switch.

I found another wire black/yellow which appears to be the genernal live form the fuse. So does that make the red a permenant live also coming from the HRW switch. Green/white coming from the HRW relay as a switched live.

Lee.