Tools needed:
Phillips head screwdriver
Soldering kit
Electrical tape
Metal coat hanger
Wire cutters
Extra wire
Socket wrench

Power folding mirrors with switch. The reason that I failed on the first two attempts to install these mirrors was because my harness was incomplete, so make sure that you have a complete harness or your attempt to install these mirrors will be futile

The full JDM harness will have 10 wires total. My incomplete harness only had 7...whoops!

The full 10 wires compose of the following colors-yellow/blue, yellow/black, purple/white, black(for the ground), blue/black, blue/red, blue/white, blue(power folding), green/white, green(power folding). The plain blue and the plain green wires are the two extra wires that control the fold out fold in actions on the JDM mirrors. These are the two wires that you will need to splice and run to the center console. The other wires are exactly like your stock power mirrors if you have them and you will only need to connect the corresponding colors together and solder.

The first thing you need to do is disconnect your battery and then gain access to the power mirror harness by removing the trim plate and center console.
Grab the sides of the trim plate and carefully pull to remove it from the dash.



Use a phillips head screwdriver to remove the shifter trim plate from your shift boot.

Now you'll need to remove the screws on the center console. There's two at the top of the console...

and four on the sides of the front and back of the console.

Now you can pull the console away from the dash.

Before you do, remember to remove the cigarette lighter harness and the ashtray light harness from the underside of the console.

Sit the console on the passenger floorboard and out of the way.

The mirror harness.
Now you'll need to remove the door panel. If you don't know how, use this thread-S13 Door Panel Removal http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=244776
After removing the door panels you'll need to swap out your USDM mirrors with the JDM mirrors.

Start by removing the black bases. They pull off with ease.

Using a phillips head screwdriver or a socket wrench, remove the three bolts holding the mirrors in and put the JDM mirrors in their place.

Now you need to take your stock mirror harness and your JDM harness and match up the corresponding wires.

Sloppily connect the wires on your USDM harness to the wires on your JDM harness. At this point it just needs a connection, we want to make sure everything works before we start running any wires or soldering.

The JDM mirrors will have a white harness for the power function on the mirrors and a blue harness for the power folding function.

The blue harness will have a blue and a green wire, this is where you need to run two extra wires in order for the folding function to work.

Go ahead and run the wires to the mirror harness...

and the switch harness.
Now that you have everything wired, you need to connect your battery and test the mirror to see if it works properly.

If everything goes well...voila! You now have power folding mirrors! Fold in!

Fold out!
If your mirrors didn't function at all you might want to check the fuse.

Mine didn't do anything the first time and it turns out that I didn't have a fuse for them.

Now that everything is functioning you can go ahead and run your extra wires thru the door and the dash.

Remove the kick panel.

And the lower column cover.

The coat hanger, man's best friend for running wires.

First, you need to run the coat hanger thru the rubber grommet on the door.

Out.

Tie the wires.

Pull them thru.

Now run the hanger thru the rubber grommet for the inside.

Tie the wires.

Pull the wires thru.

Before you go any further tie the wires at the door to something so that they don't get pulled through the door while you're tugging away on the other side.

Almost done. Run the hanger through the center console and out the bottom of the dash near the gas pedal.

Finally, tie the wires and pull them through the center console. Now that you have the extra wires ran, you need to tie everything together again and test one last time to make sure that the mirrors still function.

If they do you can start cutting, soldering and shrink wrapping where it is required.

Repeat the procedure for the passenger side, secure the wires that you ran under the dash and the console.

Put everything back together and you're done.

You now have power folding mirrors.

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Quote, originally posted by theclub »

I don't mean to be a jerk you were nice enough to post all those pics but what would be the point? Do you regulary drive into a garage space so tight you need to fold the mirrors to fit your car or are you just a jdm fanboy?

what's the point of your question?

Positronone, I'll ask to have this thread moved as an article if you'd like. I think it'd do better there than getting lost in the pages of the tech section.

ex: the blue extra harness for the power folding feature has a solid blue and solid green wire, but the switch only has 1 solid blue and 2 solid green. How did you get yours to work? I am currently attempting this mod. to a non power window 240 and appreciate any help

i did that on mine and my right mirror/passenger doesn't work either. i have 9 wires connected to the jdm switch.

is the folding motor broken? i don't hear the right motor. the adjustments are working.

Modified by 240on430 at 5:57 PM 8/14/2007

WANTED:power folding mirrors and switch
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got a new mirror from the ebay seller and the right mirror now works.

Has anyone ever tried this on an S13 that did not have factory power mirrors?

I think I'm missing a lot of the wiring..... Is this going to be much more difficult?

Thanks

EDIT: http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=77995 I went and pulled it up on my own. I figured I could find a lot faster than most others. I included the stock wiring diagram. I followed it wire for wire in fabbing up my harnesses. Of course, looking it back over with what I know now, it looks to be a switched voltage switch with one shared ground instead of a switched ground plug like I had initially thought.

Quote, originally posted by audtatious »

Hey wait. My balls don't hang too low yet

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if i didn't have power mirrors, id just wire up the folding wires. how often do you adjust your mirrors?

anyone use jdm bases? i have to fold the mirrors in a lil bit to aim them right.

Anyway, you gotta help me here. I was thinking about creating a new thread, but I figured it'd help other people if my questions stay here. I'm in the middle of getting ready for power folding mirror swap, and I appreciate if you can clear some things for me. Other guys with power folding mirrors and digital climate control, please feel free to join too.

This is the switch I got. It's supposed to be from 180SX Kouki, but I'm not sure

It has 9 wires, not 10 as you can see.
Is this going to work?

Mirror is good. Total 5 wires.

It was dirty, so I had to clean it up good. It was interesting to see how this thing works.

You didn't mention anything about swapping triangle bases, but it's in this tech article. Is yours working okay without swapping them?

http://www.nicoclub.com/articles.php?id=159840

"First off, before doing any wiring, you have to swap out the triangular bases. Also, unless you want to use the JDM mirror glass, which is not as magnified as our USDM driver's side one, you'll have to swap them out as well. They just pop out. So first take off the mirror glass. The disassemble the mirror from the triangular base by removing the 3 screws on the bottom. Do the same on the JDM mirror. Now put the JDM mirror onto the USDM triangular base. If you don't do this, the angle of the mirrors are different enough to where you can't adjust the driver's side mirror very far out."

Do I have to swap this part? I'm asking you because I couldn't see any difference between USDM and JDM triangle bases.

Now move on to digital climate control. Actually, what I want is exactly same as what you did. I want everything except auto function for the climate control because I saw the write up on digital climate control install and it looked tough. I wonder it's going to be simple if I just do what you did. Can you tell me what's missing here? I'm sure I'm missing something. If so, is that something I can get from other USDM Nissan cars? If it's too much headache, I won't do this mod.

It was so clean like this, so I couldn't pass.

A couple of more things. I have manual mirrors, so I have to make a harness. I've been looking at wiring diagram and it only shows 7 wires for the switch, so 2 extra wires I have on my switch will be for the folding function. I wonder what's that extra wire you have on your switch.

I know black is ground and "L/W" goes to ACC. What does "L" stand for? Is it Blue? I don't have Blue/White wire. I'll hook it up with 12v power source and test the mirrors before I put them on.

Thanks in advance.


Modified by 94_240sx at 8:02 AM 11/16/2007

Quote, originally posted by positronone »

Getting ready to do those conversions, sweet! For the power folding mirrors, the nine wires that you have will work, as you already know, the harness that I got had 10 wires but I only used nine. It had two solid green wires and I only used one of them, still haven't figured out exactly what the other green wire was for? Your mirror harness is good to go as well.

Thanks for confirmation!!
I just dropped by RadioShack and picked up male/female 6 and 9 molex connectors and some wires.

Quote, originally posted by positronone »

I didn't swap out the bases, I just took my USDM mirrors off and put the JDM mirrors on...no problems they just bolt right on the same way. I have two mirrors from two different year models so you shouldn't have any problems. I just didn't notice any difference between the US and JDM bases.

Very good!! I'd like to use JDM triangle bases because my USDM bases have many rock chips. That's one of reasons I didn't want to swap them.

Quote, originally posted by positronone »

I would like to know how you got the mirrors broke down, for the life of me I couldn't get mine apart to swap out the glass. I would advise you to do this because what the guy says in the tech article about not being able to adjust the drivers side USDM glass all the way is true.

It's easy. Just use flat head screw driver and it'll pop right out. I'll take some pics for you tonight, so you can pop it out without breaking it.

If you break it somehow, you can get new ones from here.
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Quote, originally posted by positronone »

Let me take a look at my climate pics and get back with you on the climate conversion.

Cool, man. You should have done a write up for digital climate control too. Or it's already out there and I missed it? Anyway, as usual thanks for all this great info, positronone.

EDIT: Maybe base swap is only for s14???? Check this thread. s14 won't fold all the way with USDM base on the driver's side.

http://forums.nicoclub.com/zer...13714

Modified by 94_240sx at 11:44 AM 11/16/2007

Here you go. It's just a clip on. I've removed and installed so many times and never broke clip or base plate, so you can just go ahead and replace your JDM glass with USDM one.

KA-T why settle for anything less?

No wonder you didn't mention about mirrors!!! Yeah, you won't be able to see well, so you will have to take them apart and swap the base.

As you can see, angles are different on USDM and JDM bases.

There's a notch on the base, but it's on the other side of screw holes as you can see. You have to grind it down.

Outside trims are different too. It's hard to notice this unless you have them side by side.

I just used a Dremel to grind it down like this. You will have to make sure to tighten 3 screws to secure internal and base.

Final product is on the left side. JDM internal on USDM base and trim.

To disassemble JDM power folding mirrors, you will have to cut the wires and reconnect them later. If you remove pins fron the plug, you don't have to cut it, but I don't think that's a good idea.

All done!!! I put a mirror back on, installed on my car and yes, I was able to see with no problem.

When you take them apart, you will have to look for the screws because there's some sponge/foam on the back. I saw people prefer black JDM power folding mirrors on eBay, but actually color doesn't matter since you only need internals. USDM power mirrors and manual mirrors have same bases BTW. Let me know if you have any Qs.