Civic Type-R Owners Club & Forum

Hi everyone, I've noticed a few guys here have mentioned doing a custom DIY fix on the automatic folding side view mirrors so that they automatically fold in and out when the doors are locked/unlocked. If anyone knows whats involved in doing this DIY please post a step by step guide for us newbies as I'm sure a lot of FN2 owners like myself will greatly appreciate this mod Cheers guys!

Yup, would be very useful...my parking routine usually goes something along the lines of:

1 ) park
2 ) switch off engine
3 ) take keys out of ignition
4 ) swear
5 ) put keys back in ignition
6 ) press the little button to retract the mirrors
7 ) take keys back out of ignition again
8 ) get out of car
9 ) get shouted at by the other half for forgetting for the millionth time

I'm sure i'm not the only one

U are not

Switch-Power-Mirrors-Central-Locking

I had to remove the resistor to get it working. Also the central locking wire was an arse, just cut some plastic off it and solder straight to it. The rest of the cut wires I used male/female conectors to make life easy if I need to take it out.

Here is a crappy diagram I made to make sense of the original post:
This is what I ordered to make it from Maplin:
GJ83E 20mm QB 200ma 10 PK
M4K7 Min Res 4k7
PC78K In-line Fuse Hldr
QL79L 1N4007S x3
QL87U 1N5408
QQ14Q BC547C
N56AC BC635
JH83E Ins Bullet Skt Red
JH85G Ins Bullet Red
N08AW Min 10A DPDT 12Vdc

aye, with the good 'ol EP3 you just get out and use your arse to fold them in, none of these fancy modern darn fangled gadgets

philosoma wrote:Switch-Power-Mirrors-Central-Locking

I had to remove the resistor to get it working. Also the central locking wire was an arse, just cut some plastic off it and solder straight to it. The rest of the cut wires I used male/female conectors to make life easy if I need to take it out.

Here is a crappy diagram I made to make sense of the original post:

DSCF0168b.jpg

This is what I ordered to make it from Maplin:
GJ83E 20mm QB 200ma 10 PK
M4K7 Min Res 4k7
PC78K In-line Fuse Hldr
QL79L 1N4007S x3
QL87U 1N5408
QQ14Q BC547C
N56AC BC635
JH83E Ins Bullet Skt Red
JH85G Ins Bullet Red
N08AW Min 10A DPDT 12Vdc

So, anyone taken a look at this and thought "well, that looks easy"?!?! :liar:

certainly looks like basic electronics to me. probably be knocked up in an hour or 2 (hour and a half to get the parts)

Regards
Nathan@Sumo

I made this circuit up. Its easy peasy. I got it working on a DC supply in my work. Havnt fitted it to my civic yet. Not had the time. But i know other guys from civinfo have fitted and it works well!

Singapore Steve wrote:Yup, would be very useful...my parking routine usually goes something along the lines of:

1 ) park
2 ) switch off engine
3 ) take keys out of ignition
4 ) swear
5 ) put keys back in ignition
6 ) press the little button to retract the mirrors
7 ) take keys back out of ignition again
8 ) get out of car
9 ) get shouted at by the other half for forgetting for the millionth time

I'm sure i'm not the only one

That looks familiar he he