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electric door mirrors 9 years 1 month ago #157658

Hello.

I'm new on the forum but have been reading posts on it for some weeks now and have yet to find an answer. I'm upgrading to electric door mirrors and am struggling to find the wiring inside the dash to connect to the switch. looking at the number of wires coming out of the door I'm convinced that the wiring is there, but cannot find it anywhere. I've just had the instrument panel out and still nothing. It's a 51 plate MGF 1.6.
Any suggestions where I might find it???

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electric door mirrors 9 years 1 month ago #157665

I have no direct experience but going by the usual practice I suspect the leads will be folded back on the loom and wrapped in,
David
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Might be bobbins but when i was stripping an old MGF i remember disconnecting the power leads for the mirrors from inside the door card, thats the easy bit.

The electric mirror toggle thing is as David says all i saw was a connector block, but no idea where it went? Eventually it went behind the clocks and into the main loom.

What you need to do i think is to go to a scrapyard with a scrapped F and start taking the loom apart with photos OR if you phone up one of the nice breakers like http://www.mgfntfbitz.co.uk/ they might tell you how to do it as they've stripped hundreds of these cars.

A bit of googling reckons:
"No chance of getting the connectors though, and the wiring is buried in the main loom.
I have easy access to connectors and wire so I made my own loom. I soldered short wires on to the back of the switch and used my own connector there. I also re-used the old heater connectors then used an additional four way connector for the movement.
Took power from the electric window lift right behind the Fuse/MCU thingy. I didn't change the fuse as I'm not dexterous enough to wind both windows AND both mirrors."

http://www.mg-cars.net/mgf-technical-bbs/electric-mirror-conversion-2006022517464710914.htm

These are decent links:
http://www.mgfregister.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7274
http://www.mgfregister.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3471
http://www.mg-cars.net/mgf-technical-bbs/electric-mirror-wiring-200409061047059217.htm

What i'd be tempted to do if you can't do this is to make your own loom by getting a power feed from one of the common switched wires with a switched fuse. Run this to both electric motors and the switch. There is cig lighter or some of the wires that run on the passenger side of the car.

Scrapyard plan is a better one, take a notepad and photograph everything, then its easier making your own loom up when your on your car.

Also some of the looms of other rovers can be used on your MGF so don't dismiss the Rover 25 / MG ZR looms, they might just work with a bit of TLC.
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electric door mirrors 9 years 1 month ago #157679

Hi and welcome to the forum

I wonder if the 1.6 had the wiring.

James

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As its a early mk2, Maybe its there?

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electric door mirrors 9 years 1 month ago #157698

Thanks for your help chaps - I'll be off to the scrappy for a rummage at the weekend!

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