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Remove electric mirrors?

Postby d-mag » Mon May 04, 2009 8:31 am

Hey all, does anyone know how or where to remove the black wire that runs to the electric mirrors?

I'm replacing the electric mirrors with some non-electric ones but I might want to swap them back eventually so I'd prefer not to cut them.

Any help would be ace.
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Remove electric mirrors?

Postby green_comet » Mon May 04, 2009 1:48 pm

Ill help you if you give me the mats... :lol:

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Remove electric mirrors?

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:mrgreen:
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Remove electric mirrors?

Postby d-mag » Mon May 04, 2009 1:57 pm

:lol: Wanker!
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Remove electric mirrors?

Postby wun911 » Mon May 04, 2009 3:08 pm

oh so how much do the mirror motors weigh??
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Remove electric mirrors?

Postby Okibi » Mon May 04, 2009 4:42 pm

How much for the electric mirrors/switches and wires? :mrgreen:
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Remove electric mirrors?

Postby Mr Morlock » Mon May 04, 2009 6:45 pm

This is not a great idea. Electric mirrors are a signficant improvement on manual adjusted mirrors. If you are hell bent on doing this you simply cut the wires and put some insulation tape on the ends and they can be re joined ( with male / female connections or soldering etc to reverse the process)

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Remove electric mirrors?

Postby d-mag » Mon May 04, 2009 6:50 pm

Bloody vultures! :lol:
If I pull it all out, it's all yours Dave.

Edit: It's all good Morty, I guarantee I'll have better visibility with my new mirrors.

I got sick of waiting for a response so I decided to yank em out, and what do you know? There's little plugs at the end of the wires that un-clicked once yanked.
All worked out. 8)
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Remove electric mirrors?

Postby Adam_NAclubman » Mon May 04, 2009 8:19 pm

Yeah you just unplug them. Unfortunately my cousin cut the bloody wires on mine before I had a chance to unplug them, so I made him solder the wires back together

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Postby Jeo » Mon May 04, 2009 8:46 pm

Adam_NAclubman wrote:so I made him solder the wires back together


Ha! Well done


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