Re: Electric mirror motors not working

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

Having cleaned numerous mirror switches, and getting really sick of
doing it, I did this.  A parts car I bought a while back didn;t have
power mirrors.  So it had a drivers door pull with no cutout.  In it
went.  Then I took the dual switches from a 5ks door, cleaned them up
good for *the last time!* and mounted them to the right of the steering
wheel, where the heated seat switches are often found.  Had to throw
together an interesting hybrid harness, bits from about four cars. 
Definitely worth doing, one more thing I suppose I should photo and
stick on my dumb web site for the adventurous to get inspired to hack
*their* cars.

Phil Payne wrote:
> 
> I thought the same - broken wire in the door.  But I got volts, and
> jumpering the connector produces mirror movement.
> 
> So I stripped the switch.  On the ur-quattro, the left/right flipover
> switch is _amazingly_ poorly protected against general shit ingress
> from the top.  Washed it in meths, wet'n'dried it, put it back together
> and Bingo!  I can move both mirrors from the comfort of my (recently
> renovated) driver's seat.

-- 
Huw Powell

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