Door mirrors.

[swiftflo]

I have recently had an argument with my garage door frame and have removed the nearside door mirror off of my BMW 323ci coupe. I have purchased a second hand one from a breakers yard, sprayed it to match and fitted it to the door. I find however that the replacement mirror has 6 wires and a flat connector on the end of them, the existing door mirror has 9 wires, and no connector, advice please on how to overcome this problem.

[911GT2]

Well it looks as if you either bought the wrong mirror or a mirror off a BMW that had heated mirrors (assuming you don't).

Try finding a wiring guide (local dealership may be helpful if you can't find one on the net) and hooking up the necessary wires.

[swiftflo]

Thanks for your reply. I realized afterwards that that was the problem. My existing mirror was heated but the one I bought from the breakers was not. Will just have to either sort the wiring out for the one I bought or look for a heated one. I am not prepared to pay the local dealership price for a new one.

[911GT2]

Oh it's fine, you don't need to buy anything else.

Just tape up the wires used for the heater and connect everything else normally.

[swiftflo]

Thanks again for your reply. I have noticed that the existing wiring in the door has 2 black covered cables and the wiring from the replacement mirror also has 2 black covered cables, does it matter if I get these black wires from the door wiring to the ones on the mirror crossed, will it only blow a fuse or will it not just work. As I said in my first email the 6 wires from the replacement mirror go into a small flat black connector, but at the moment I have not been able to locate a similar one so that I can fix one end to the existing wiring in the car door. Do you know if they are a standard BMW connector as our local dealership has never seen them before.