Retractable mirrors
I'm working on a mirror swap on my Celica
The car: 1992 Celica GT hatchback
I picked up a pair of retractable JDM RHD celica mirrors from the local junkyard (lucky I know)
Issues to resolve:
-different wiring for power adjustable part
-change out the mirrors to a LHD friendly vehicle (convex right side, flat left side)
-wire up the heated mirror portion (comes with the mirror replacements)
So far I ordered the mirror lens replacements from "car-parts-market" seller off of ebay out of the UK
they are heated variants.
The mirror heaters will be wired to the factory rear defrost button on the dash allowing it to shut itself off and also to reduce the number of switches/buttons in the car as well as keeping a factory look.
need to locate a part number for the relay and one for the switch to find out if they are able to be ordered through standard toyota dealers in the US
This is still in progress, I will post more as I go
i snagged the how to off of alltrac.net;
http://www.alltrac.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=37122by going off of that it should allow you to successfully swap the mirror lenses.
"car-parts-market" is a good seller, the shipping time is a little long but it is coming from the UK and they have heated or non heated options and convex or flat style for whichever side you choose.
If you have the ebay app on your phone you wont find them but if you search ebay on the computer it will bring them up. Its the one place I could find these style mirrors that would change to LHD.
^the backside of the mirror, heater element in place probably will add more double sided tape
^the front side of the new mirror
^factory wires from the stock mirrors (3 wires only, retractable ones have 7)
more pictures, my plan with the wiring is to redo the plug in so the mirror will have 3 connectors; one for the mirror glass adjustment, another for the retractable part and the last one for the heating element.
I sourced the 4 pin connector for the retractable part from the tail light of a lexus sedan and the 3 pin ones for the mirror adjustment from a camry and celica mirror adjustment wiring the last one I'm unsure what I'll use for the 2 wires.
^this picture shows the difference between the convex mirror on RHD vehicles and the flat mirror for LHD vehicles. The top is the flat LHD one and the bottom is the convex RHD one
^7 pin mirror connector(JDM ones)
^glass came out pretty easily, I taped the face and heated it up then worked it out in a circular motion popping the edge out from under the plastic
^the bottom is where it attaches to the motor, the black part attaches to the white part so pry against the black part with a screw driver
^the backside of the black plate that snaps to the motor and holds the glass
^ the frontside of the black plate