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[Dany]

Some help is always welcome mate 

I have thought to connect the mirrors to the central doors locking, I want them to fold when I lock/unlock the car with my key. But If I do that, the mirrors will fold even when I ride and I push on a door pin 

[Sixstring]

Dany.....
Take a feed from the ign switch to the relay to make a "hold off" situation, using the N/O side of the relay to the feed to fold the mirrors. when the ign feed is removed, the relay closes, feeding the motor of the folding mirrors with a 12v supply. Assuming they have some sort of timer on them so the motor stops when they are folded, every time you start the car, the mirrors will fold out, and when you turn off, they will fold (a la Mercedes). Bear in mind you will need a twin pole relay for fold and unfold............because the mirrors will have a fold feed and an unfold feed, i.e n/c for fold, n/o for unfold. common to 12v ign.
HTH

Mike.

[aaronjb]

As an aside..

I had a Japanese import Nissan 300ZX once, which came fitted with electrically folding mirrors (the UK/Euro ones didn't ) - anyhow, they were originally on a little switch in the centre console.

Came in very handy when reversing into my (at the time) very tight garage and so on, for sneaking past pillars and garage doors..

When I had an aftermarket alarm fitted I also had the guy wire them up so that they only folded in as the ignition went off as you're describing - after I did that, I found out that I much preferred it when I could fold them in at any time - so you might want to retain that functionality (I'm guessing fitting a switch in-line with the ignition feed to the relay described above).

[Dany]

Errrrfffff... I will need a little diagram to do it lol
My English is not too advanced... But I understand the idea.

To Aaron, what I want to do is the mirrors fold/unfold when I open/close the car with the key, but with keeping the button functionality.

[Sixstring]

Dany....

PM me with an address, and I will gladly send you an "idiots diagram" on how to do it, with wiring colours and relay type and numbers to buy it from the e-bay site.

Should only cost you 15 euros or so..........

Mike.

[Dany]

PM sent 

[Dany]

I have tried to install the mirrors today and... There is another problem!!

The memory function is missing on the new ones...
It's a 9 pins connexion. On my mirrors, I have the 9 pins used, but no folding motors... On the new ones, it's always a 9 pins connexion but only 8 pins used, with folding function (2 wires used for the folding motors) but no memory. So I need 11 pins to have memory + folding function... But it's a 9 pins connector...

I have re  installed mines in waiting for a solution...