Electronics Need help wiring something up? Thinking of adding an electrical component to your car? Need help troubleshooting that wiring glitch?

rearview mirror with lights

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 07-28-2003, 01:31 PM
  #1  
Member

Thread Starter
 
tony1784's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Chicago
Posts: 212
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Car: 85 Trans Am
Engine: SBC
Transmission: TH400
Axle/Gears: Moser/Strange 9"
rearview mirror with lights

I got a rear view mirror out of a late 80's cutlass ciera, its got 2 map lights on it. I grabbed about 2 feet of the wiring harness with it, there is a white, and orange, and a black. Obviously the black is ground but what do i do with the orange and white wires? Thanks


Tony
Old 07-28-2003, 02:24 PM
  #2  
Member
 
definitive1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hamden, CT
Posts: 127
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
If its the same mirror I have, I faintly remember when hooking mine up, one wire powers the 2 lights that go on with the switch on the bottom of the mirror, then the other powers this little light on the bottom that I have no idea what it is good for. Just hook the ground up to a battery and one at a time the other ones and see what happens.
Old 07-28-2003, 10:42 PM
  #3  
Senior Member
 
2vmodular's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 885
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
there are two wires at the domelight in thirdgens.

orange = constant +12V
white = ground path when door ajar

for your new mirror, you may also wish to add a new constant ground so that you can use the map lights when the doors are closed.
Old 07-28-2003, 11:06 PM
  #4  
Member

Thread Starter
 
tony1784's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Chicago
Posts: 212
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Car: 85 Trans Am
Engine: SBC
Transmission: TH400
Axle/Gears: Moser/Strange 9"
thanks alot for the info man gonna try and wire it up tomrrow
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
GeneralIesrussi
Carburetors
5
01-20-2020 01:06 PM
Hotrodboba400
Firebirds for Sale
3
12-10-2019 07:07 PM
TBRays98
Tech / General Engine
6
09-06-2015 05:05 PM
Jetmeck
Interior
3
09-04-2015 12:29 AM
Hotrodboba400
Firebirds for Sale
0
09-02-2015 07:28 PM



Quick Reply: rearview mirror with lights



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:12 PM.