Electric Mirrors.

[Bleach1]

My electric mirror adjustment isnt working on the right side. After some investigation i found there is a damaged wire going from the switch to the mirror motor. The mirror plug has 5 wires. The one i found to be damaged is the Purple wire with a Black trace. Has anyone ever had a similar problem? Is it more likely to be the plug in the door jam. Also is there an easier way to access the plug/loom in the foot well/door jam? It is incredibly difficult to get to.

[wrxhoon]

i never had a skyline mirror apart but electric mirrors have 2 small electric motors one for in -out other for up-down .

u take the mirror off the car and take it apart then u'll see them they are very small . sometimes they have bad connection , check that spray some wd40 and test the motors on a 12 volt battery if they work then look for damaged wires .

[Bleach1]

its not the mirror. I have run a wire from the back of the switch to the same wire in the loom on the door and the mirror works fine. so somewhere between the door jam plug. Has anyone ever had the large door plug stuff up on them?

[wrxhoon]

i havent had the door jam plug off on the skyline but from past experience they are a bitch to pull off , if u cant get it off run another wire like they do when they fit alarms

[chicane]

My Drivers side mirror doesn't work for the adjustment - it folds in and out OK though - Checked switch on dash looks OK I think they stuffed something when they changed it from convex to flat at compliance :|

any tips for the mirror removal

[sewid]

Originally posted by chicane

My Drivers side mirror doesn't work for the adjustment - it folds in and out OK though - Checked switch on dash looks OK I think they stuffed something when they changed it from convex to flat at compliance :|  

any tips for the mirror removal

Mine's still convex. :uh-huh:

[Bleach1]

Just remobe the whole thing first from the door and connect it to the opposite side to make sure it is the motor.

[wrxhoon]

its not hard to remove look under the mirror it should have 2-3 bolts undo them and its out but u may have to undo the bolts inside the car as well not sure but take the little trim off on the inside and see there should be 2- 3 there as well .

[Bleach1]

Originally posted by wrxhoon

its not hard to remove look under the mirror it should have 2-3 bolts undo them and its out but u may have to undo the bolts inside the car as well not sure but take the little trim off on the inside and see there should be 2- 3 there as well .

You have to take the whole door trim off to get to the plug, that isnt difficult though.

[rs73]

has any of you guys solved this problem since last year?

My driver side had problem now... the up/down left/right adjustment is fine, but the mirror only wanna fold in with a click click and slight delay compared to the left one, and once it folds in it doesn't want to fold out anymore..

from those wire colours above, has anyone figure out which wire colour for which function?

[DR.ZOIDBERG]

the 2 black wires on the mirror make it fold in and out, it has its own plug that goes behind the door trim. There are another 5 wires that do something with the mirror, theres blue, purple, yellow, pink and orange. I have no idea what wires for what.

My stock mirrors both sides only move in 2 directions - down and left, it should go up down left and right.

I took the mirror off and sprayed the motor with WD40 stuff and it made no diff at all.

I wanted to hook up a new set of aftermarket mirrors but they only have 3 wires, so I hooked them up to the matching colour and the mirrors only moved up and down, I decided to join another wire up and see if it made a diff, it just blew a fuse.

Any idea on both my problems?????

[R33Dan]

ok i had exactly the same problem as you drivers side up down left right is fine just click click click and wont move in or out, im an electronics technician so i pulled it apart all the voltages were fine so its not an electrical prob i rang up just jap in syd and they the first thing to go on skylines is always drivers side electric window and electric mirrors. i couldnt find anything wrong so i just bought a new mirror and it goes fine. but if you dont care about the in out thing just leave it out.

[DR.ZOIDBERG]

Hey

Mine fold in and out fine, but the mirror itself only moves in 2 directions. Both the drivers and passenger side do this, any ideas?

[R33Dan]

sounds like your switch may be faulty if it is both sides, did one stop then the other or both at the same time

[DR.ZOIDBERG]

Hey

Dont really know, only noticed it when I tryed to install aftermarket mirrors which I didnt end up doing as they didnt fit

When the mirrors are out the move only 2 directions, when I fold them in the move the other 2 directions but still only move in 2 directions. Also when they are out when I try to move the mirrors sometimes they move ok but sometimes the click when they are trying to move.

When you said it might be the switch, did you mean the whole door bit or just the mirror control that you pop out by itself???

[R33Dan]

I just mean the switch on your dash board but that seems weird did you disconnect any wires when you were hookin up aftermarket mirrors

[DR.ZOIDBERG]

Yep

I had to cut the 5 wires on the passenger side to hook up the new mirror, when I found out it didnt fit, I re hooked up the wires. I cant see how this can cause the problem seeing the wires are just hooked back up

[R33Dan]

Check the connections on the wire and make sure they arent touching each other or the body of the car and make sure they are all insulated with some electrical tape etc

[Hiroshima Screamer]

Mine had similar problems, but it turned out to be a fuse replaced it and now works except for when I get out of the car turn the key to lock car they dont fold in as they used to?

[DR.ZOIDBERG]

Yer I changed the fuse coz I blew it when trying to hook new ones up