Hey thanks guys. I used the JDM relay that I got when I bought the mirrors. The wiring was actually very easy to do...just a lot of matching up colors. It took me about 8-10 hours to fully install these babies! The wiring just took me forever. One reason is because I moved my mirror switch from the drivers side door panel to the 94-96 style console I swapped in. I mounted the relay in the passenger side door. There was actually a spot already made for the relay. I bought the plastic inserts where the screws hold the relay into the car from HondaAutomotiveParts.com. It looks pretty much like stock
There is one downside to having the JDM mirrors though. They are meant for the RHD prelude so the angles are a bit off. You can't quite see out the mirrors as you could with the USDM ones. You just gotta lean a little bit more to get the right angle. Other than that, I really like the mirrors. It's nice to have something different from other cars. Driving down the road and folding the mirrors in...you get some odd glances from other drivers lol. Yeah, I thought it was worth the money though (I paid $168 shipped from eBay).
Sweet, welcome to the uh..folding mirrors that work club!
Yea you have to lean a bit more since they were meant for RHD preludes; but I like the fact that they dont make objects larger then they appear, so it gives you a realistic view of what and how far they are behind you
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Yeah, I talked to caz on the phone and he had to dremel part of the housing to get it to work. He said that you can get it to where you can see out of your mirrors as you would stock but when you fold the mirrors in, I guess the driver's side mirror doesn't fold in all the way. I don't think I will be modifying the mirrors to get it just like the USDM ones. It doesn't bother me to lean in a little bit to see out the mirror...
nice, I just dropped mine off with some other parts to get painted, I should hopefully get around to installing them next week or sometime shortly after, my only concern is that I wanted to wire them how some people imagine, up to an alarm system, so they close when I arm it, but I'm wondering if I install them now, then buy an alarm later, how much of a pain in the a$$ will it be to re-wire.
Originally posted by 4thGenReady2Go nice, I just dropped mine off with some other parts to get painted, I should hopefully get around to installing them next week or sometime shortly after, my only concern is that I wanted to wire them how some people imagine, up to an alarm system, so they close when I arm it, but I'm wondering if I install them now, then buy an alarm later, how much of a pain in the a$$ will it be to re-wire.
It shouldn't be a pain at all since i suspect the only wire you'll have to mess with when incorporating them to your alarm will be the blu/yel wire that goes from the switch to the relay. Everything else needs to be wired the correct OEM way, without modification.
awesome Humberto, thanks. Lol, I really should've known that if I intend to install these myself in a week or two, but alas, I haven't looked over the walkthroughs I've found so far.
Hey, I mean its no problem...I can make a vid of my climate control too lol. Only downside is that I will have to take the mirror vid off my server cuz I am close to my max web space. Unless of course someone else wants to host the vids...
thats awesome, be so much fun for me
Its always fun in my friends A6...going down the highway and hitting the button without him realizing i did...he flips lol
I'll be part of this Folding club soon enough I just have to get my painted... I've installed them already just to see how they look and operate. It's all pretty easy once you understand what wire does what..... BUT here's the prob I had.
I bought my mirrors from a friend I made in Japan for $40 & the shipping was $60 (included mirrors, switch & relay). But when I opened the box, I noticed that I didn't have ANY harnesses except for the ones that come directly from the mirrors themselves. So I was missing the relay harness, the switch harness, & the door harnesses that go the the mirrors... so Here's what I did. Just out of curiosity.. I plugged in the JDM switch to my OEM switch harness... & my OEM mirrors worked (up/down, left/right), which meant that all I needed was one wire that went from my OEM switch harness... to the relay that signals the mirrors to fold, Which was great cuz that solves me missing a JDM switch harness.
One of the guys in my crew was sending his old lude to salvage (cuz it got totaled) so he asked me if I needed anything... & I told him Yes.. I need your OEM switch harness. So I got that from him as a spare. But that still left me with trying to find out what harness I was ganna use for the relay. So here's what I did, The OEM switch harness has 10 Pin holes, the JDM relay only has 7. I cut the last 3 pin holes & clip off of his OEM switch relay... & VVWWAAALLAAAA instant harness for JDM relay.... it fits perfect, like it was made for it. So this solved problem 1 & 2.
So I still had 2 problems left... the 3rd prob. was, No door harness for the JDM mirror pig tails. So I removed the OEM mirror wires from it's pig tail (the Yellow, 2 Brown, & Blue wires) &
