Wiring
You can now remount the mirrors onto the car, remembering to feed your power supply wire in too!
The simplist way to get the wire to the loom is to loosen out the door card on the inner most side, pushing the wire in. When your inline with the main door connector flexible rubber you can go directly to it. Loosen off both ends of the flexi piece, making a small hole in the top of it.
Remove the plastic trim at the door opening - 2 long cross head screws.
Pull it up to unclip it, then push it in towards interior to get a bit extra room.
Untape the loom, and look for
Drivers side - Pink Wire + / Black wire -
Passenger side - Pink&White wire + / Black wire -
The 2 wires are the same guage and are the smallest guage wires in the loom. There are several black wires of the same size, so I dont think it matters which one you use.
Note - there is a thick black wire on passenger side, I dont know what this is for so dont use that.
Use the soldering iron to melt about 1cm of the PVC insulation on each wire, but make sure you do them about 5cm apart. Temporarily attach the red wire of the strip to the pink wire, and black to black.
Press the hazard warning button on the dash as check that the mirror LED's are working.
Remove the clip and pull back the carpet until you can see the gromet that you can feed the wires through. Drill a 5mm hole in the seal.
Use a metal hanger to help feed the wires down the flexible seal on the door, then throught the inner gromet. Pull them tight and fix them in place along the door using a good quality duct tape.
Feed the wires down along the loom until they reach where you have remove the isualation.
Use a small screwdriver to make a hole in the wire, and feed the new wire into it, twisting it around and join soildly in place by soldering. Repeat for the other wire when reseal with PVC electrical tape.
Put the gromet and flexi seal back in to each hole, use a blunt screwdriver to help ease it into the slot.
Tape up all the wires using more tape and push them back into place just behind the carpet.
Reattach the carpet clip, then pull the door seal strip over the edge of it. Reattach the plastic trim with the 2 screws, push down to click it all back into place. Put the tweeter back in and reattach trim and adjuster nut.
Replace mirror glass by clicking the clips into place.
Thats it...
Roughly took me between 6 and 8 hours to do this, but it was worth it!
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