Mirror Conversion
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Mirror Conversion
My truck originally came with the power paddle mirrors and I just acquired some tow mirrors with the turn signals and heat and would like to hook them up. Which wire is the power? I know I have to run the heat to a 12v ignition and where can I run the turn signal. I have a set of power heated tow mirrors laying around if someone wants them too.
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The 01 pickups did not have any wiring for mirror heat, signals, or running lights. Those were an option on Excursions. The pickup power mirrors had a round plug with three wires in a four-wire plug. The Excursions and later pickups used a 10-wire rectangular plug. Do your new mirrors have the rectangular plug?
The mirror heat power is the DG/VT (dark green/violet). The black wire is ground for the heat and both the lights. Brown is the running lights, and the turn signals are LG/WT (light green/white) on the driver's side and WT/LB (white/light blue) on the passenger side.
When I installed heated power mirrors on my 01, I had to make a whole new harness because my manual mirror truck had not wiring for them. For the heat, I used a timer module from a Jeep Cherokee to run the heat for 5 minutes. This module mounts in a Bosch 5-slot relay base just like the "cube" relays in the Ford boxes. I added a relay that can be used to run the heat continuously and a led to indicate when the heat is on. All this is controlled by a (ON)-OFF-ON (momentary on, off, continuous on) rocker switch on the lower dash panel. The switch controls the ground circuit of the timer and relay.
I have the rectangular plugs that the mirror plug connects to. I am working on getting a supply of the male inserts that crimp on the wires and snap into the plug housing. Let me know if you need these.
The mirror heat power is the DG/VT (dark green/violet). The black wire is ground for the heat and both the lights. Brown is the running lights, and the turn signals are LG/WT (light green/white) on the driver's side and WT/LB (white/light blue) on the passenger side.
When I installed heated power mirrors on my 01, I had to make a whole new harness because my manual mirror truck had not wiring for them. For the heat, I used a timer module from a Jeep Cherokee to run the heat for 5 minutes. This module mounts in a Bosch 5-slot relay base just like the "cube" relays in the Ford boxes. I added a relay that can be used to run the heat continuously and a led to indicate when the heat is on. All this is controlled by a (ON)-OFF-ON (momentary on, off, continuous on) rocker switch on the lower dash panel. The switch controls the ground circuit of the timer and relay.
I have the rectangular plugs that the mirror plug connects to. I am working on getting a supply of the male inserts that crimp on the wires and snap into the plug housing. Let me know if you need these.
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