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Electric Mirror| robert_e_smart |
Posted: April 05, 2009 04:34 pm
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Chaps,
The passengers side electric mirror that drops when you select reverse gear - is there anyway of making it drop the mirror on the other side instead? With being on the continent it would be more beneficial if the other one would drop instead. Would there be anyway of retro-fitting it if I had the required parts from a LHD car, or modify the set-up that I have? Thanks in advance. -------------------- 1980 CX Athena (W)
1990 2.0 Si XM (G) 1990 2.1 Turbo SD (H) 1995 1.9 Xantia TD VSX (M) 1996 XM 2.1 TD VSX (P) 1997 Xantia Activa (R ) 2000 2.1 TD VSX (W) |
 
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| Ciaran |
Posted: April 05, 2009 06:56 pm
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 Andre's Mate Group: Members Posts: 1434 Member No.: 222 Joined: August 12, 2005 |
The dropping is done by a wee black Bitron box in the door. I believe all that would be required for it to work in the other door is either transplanting this box (or another one), and the connection to the reversing light switch, which is where it gets the signal to dip.
Ciarán -------------------- '95 XM 2.1TD VSX Hatch: RP 6429. Rare green ;-)
'90 XM 2.0 SEI Hatch: RP 4832 - 'Gandalf the grey' '95 Xantia 1.9TD SX Hatch: RP ????. Black - 'Darth Vader'. Will be MOT'd '95 Xantia 1.9TD SX Hatch: RP ????. Blue - Utterly fooked Location: Outskirts of Belfast in the sunny north of Ireland... |
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| lez |
Posted: April 26, 2010 12:32 pm
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I'm on tghe lookout for such a box, before i go to trouble of building one from scratch...
oh and you need another mirror too, as the tronics in the box read some varible resistors in the mirror's motor plate. This post has been edited by lez on April 26, 2010 12:32 pm -------------------- |
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| xmexclusive |
Posted: April 26, 2010 11:13 pm
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Andre's Mate Group: Members Posts: 2877 Member No.: 144 Joined: April 06, 2005 |
The good news is that the standard mirror motor and the dipping one use the same 3 screw mounting in the mirror shell. So easy to retro fit to the drivers side. Though if you can get to a Mk2 passenger mirror from a french scrapyard then it will be a dipping one if it is from a VSX or Exclusive.
The bad news is that there are not enough spare contacts/wires running into the drivers door for the dip signal to the mirror. John -------------------- An interest in 2.5TD's.
Location: Hampshire, U.K. |
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| lez |
Posted: April 27, 2010 06:16 pm
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same three screws.. not entirely accurate, one uses longer screws...
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