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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: PaulW on 21 August 2006, 19:29:56

Title: Heated Mirrors
Post by: PaulW on 21 August 2006, 19:29:56
Mirrors on my Omega are electric, guessing all of them are?  But are they heated?

Do they heat up in relation to turning the rear screen heater on?  Or should there be a little orange LED & push switch on the mirror adjustment switch?  (all it has is a left/right mirror selection switch & joystick)

The drivers mirror does have a heater sign imprinted on the glass, but the passenger doesnt.

If it doesnt have heated mirrors, is it then just a case of fitting a different switch?
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: Paul M on 21 August 2006, 20:35:20
They come on with the rear screen heater, and only the driver's side has the symbol but both are heated.
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: Del Boy on 21 August 2006, 21:08:22
Thats right they do come on with the rear screen heater and they are both heated with just the drivers side mirror on  ;)
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: TheBoy on 21 August 2006, 21:15:35
Not uncommon for the terminals behind the mirror to corrode badly. Also the heater element sometimes fails.
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: Liam on 22 August 2006, 23:36:43
Out of interest what is that orange LED that i sometimes see on omega mirror switches??  Mine doesn't have it.

Liam
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: PaulW on 23 August 2006, 07:58:21
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Out of interest what is that orange LED that i sometimes see on omega mirror switches??  Mine doesn't have it.

Liam

Thats the LED I'm talking about, its not on mine...

On the corsa, you'd press a little button next to the LED, which would then turn the heated mirrors on, and while they are on the light would illuminate...

but if whats said is true, then maybe they had new switch from the scrappy fitted, as I know the joystick can and does fail quite common...
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: Matchless on 23 August 2006, 09:58:38
On the Omega the led comes on when you switch on the rear window heater which also switches on the mirror heaters.
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: nixoro on 23 August 2006, 10:02:16
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On the Omega the led comes on when you switch on the rear window heater which also switches on the mirror heaters.

This is what mine does. :)
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: TheBoy on 23 August 2006, 10:03:03
The LED only exists on earlier Omegas...
Title: Re: Heated Mirrors
Post by: x25xe on 23 August 2006, 15:07:46
My Cavalier has the LED tell tale for the heated mirrors, but my Omega does not.  Anyway, as other have said, they come on with the heated rear screen which, by the way, is timed and switches itself off after 10 minutes or so.  A great bit of thinking I reckon!

Just like other things like the one touch windows, pulling the headlight switch out for interior illumination etc...  Only my opinion...................