kyle_agronick
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I just installed the auto dimming mirror on my EX with sensing. It was fairly easy. I found that I was able to do it without removing a bunch of things that are listed in the official install instructions. You should use this in addition to the official instructions. This is how I did it.
You need to order the mirror and the harness for your car. This is what it comes with:
There is a bag with wire ties, stickers for the fuse, the wire, and the mirror. The wire has an inline fuse and another female adapter for daisy chaining another accessory.
More shots:
To start you need to take the cover off the sensing camera. There is a small cover above the poll for the mirror. Be careful popping that out, some of the tabs break easy. Then the whole cover pops out. You can unscrew the old mirror.
Then take off the drivers side pillar. It comes out easy with one screw:
The official instructions want you to take off both visors. I just stuffed the cable into the ceiling. Its not noticeable at all. You can just pop it in. Make sure you give yourself some slack at the mirror. Just shove it under the ceiling to the pillar.
You'll need to pop off this front panel and pop off the cables.
For some reason there is a hose over here. I don't know what its for. Anyone know? It is listed in the instructions as the aspirator hose.
You then want to pop off this side panel. When you install the wire you'll take off the weather strip and you'll be easily able to move the wire from the side pillar down into this section. This panel has 2 screws.
This is where you'll connect the harness. It was getting dark and I had to hurry up so I didn't take any more pictures. After this you'll need to take off the kickboard panel and the fuse box panel. The power end clips right into the fuse box. You'll want to run the wire behind the fuse box The ground bolt is hard to find. You'll need to give your car a reach around. Use a 10mm socket. You'll feel the bolt on the side or look up there with a flash light. Take it off and add the ground bolt for the new harness to what is already on there.
This is pretty much it. You'll want to secure the wires being sure not to cover the air bag in the pillar. On the sensing camera box you'll find holes to run the wire at the top of the small cover and at the bottom of where the poll for the mirror comes out. The new mirror simply slides and screws in. There are clips inside the camera box but I found they were too small to hold the wire.
You clip everything back into place. This is how it comes out:
You need to order the mirror and the harness for your car. This is what it comes with:
There is a bag with wire ties, stickers for the fuse, the wire, and the mirror. The wire has an inline fuse and another female adapter for daisy chaining another accessory.
More shots:
To start you need to take the cover off the sensing camera. There is a small cover above the poll for the mirror. Be careful popping that out, some of the tabs break easy. Then the whole cover pops out. You can unscrew the old mirror.
Then take off the drivers side pillar. It comes out easy with one screw:
The official instructions want you to take off both visors. I just stuffed the cable into the ceiling. Its not noticeable at all. You can just pop it in. Make sure you give yourself some slack at the mirror. Just shove it under the ceiling to the pillar.
You'll need to pop off this front panel and pop off the cables.
For some reason there is a hose over here. I don't know what its for. Anyone know? It is listed in the instructions as the aspirator hose.
You then want to pop off this side panel. When you install the wire you'll take off the weather strip and you'll be easily able to move the wire from the side pillar down into this section. This panel has 2 screws.
This is where you'll connect the harness. It was getting dark and I had to hurry up so I didn't take any more pictures. After this you'll need to take off the kickboard panel and the fuse box panel. The power end clips right into the fuse box. You'll want to run the wire behind the fuse box The ground bolt is hard to find. You'll need to give your car a reach around. Use a 10mm socket. You'll feel the bolt on the side or look up there with a flash light. Take it off and add the ground bolt for the new harness to what is already on there.
This is pretty much it. You'll want to secure the wires being sure not to cover the air bag in the pillar. On the sensing camera box you'll find holes to run the wire at the top of the small cover and at the bottom of where the poll for the mirror comes out. The new mirror simply slides and screws in. There are clips inside the camera box but I found they were too small to hold the wire.
You clip everything back into place. This is how it comes out:
