Automatic folding side Mirrors prius 2010

Yes, it came with that module. He sent the kit right away....I had it from overseas in approximately a week-ish. It comes with a switch just for the whole folding function, and the seller makes up a harness for the whole contraption. I really don't know about the wiring stuff at all. There's 3 "plugs" on the harness, and one goes into that control unit/relay thing, one goes to the switch, and then one has several wires going to it that have to match up to the various wires on our cars. That part is over my head, so I'm relying on someone more knowledgeable than me to help tell me which of our car wires go to each colored wire in that plug. If you wish to maintain your defrost/heating element part of your mirror, then you have to run 2 wires for that, cause the harness stuff doesn't come equipped for that (I don't know if they don't have that on their Prii over there...?!?!?!). The whole kit comes from a Toyota Wish, though, so maybe the Wish doesn't have the defrost part on it. I put in the blue mirror glass with the LED signals behind them anyway, so I also had to swap the heating element over to the new mirror glass. Member SFV41901 has bought the kit, too, and I think he's relatively in-the-know on the wiring stuff, so I'm hoping he will be able to give pointers. It's top on my list that I have to call him, but my grandmother has been a holy terror the last several days, and my moments of being able to do anything I need to have been nonexistent.

 

Just as a note of caution, those of us looking to add this feature should proceed carefully. As far as I am aware, there is no power to the mirror adjustment switch once the car turns off. However, if the "contraption" put together by our aftermarket friends includes a constant 12v, we should be sure that the motor does not continue to get power even after the car is shut down. I've heard horror stories about BMW's with OEM autofolding mirrors that heat up and even catch fire if the car is turned off mid-fold. Apparently the control units went off when key was removed but the motors themselves were on a constant 12v. With no control unit to instruct the motors to stop folding, the motors just kept grinding away. Just a heads-up. Please advise if anyone has looked into the motor and control circuitry in greater detail.

 

That's the same thing ours will do when you push the lock and the unlock button. That's just the remote for their car..... doesn't take anything else special other than just the regular remote. Their remote might be programmable for other functions on the car, but just our smartkey/remote does everything you need yours to do (although, didn't you get the tilting mirrors?). The people in the video just push the lock and the mirrors fold in. They push the unlock and the mirrors come back to the normal position. ----also the same as when you touch the handle and lock/unlock the doors that way.

 

There has to be power to it, since part of it wires to the lock/unlock button of the car. So, in my mind, it'd have to operate whenever you locked or unlocked the car. I just looked at my wiring diagram, and the red wire goes to the positive on the battery; and the white wire goes to the actuator motor and the door lock. I don't know if our positive of our battery is constant power or not (I'm totally naive about wiring), but it'd just have to be wired to whatever is a constant power source. There's also a "control box", too. I was gonna upload a pic of the whole harness thing and the wiring diagram, but this new thing since our forum move that only allows pics/attachments up to 1mb kinda messed that up, as all the pics are larger....

 

U controller that comes with the new switch & the Toyota Wish mirrors uses the button on the new mirror switch. It does not work off of the lock/unlock. Not sure if the mirrors can be spliced into the lock/unlock of the doors. The folding motor has only 2 leads. Power is applied to 2 lead & the other a ground to fold the mirror. The polarity is then reversed to unfold.

It took about 3-4 days to receive once they were shipped.

The problem I'm having right now is with the controller. 1 end plugs into the new mirror switch while the other end is suppose to plug into the OEM mirror switch harness on the car......well the connector on the connector doesn't match the connector on the car. Then the wires arnt in the same position from the controller to the car. The colors don't match up either. So I have an email out asking about these issues. I will update once I hear back.

 

Yup, that's how it's done in Japan (in video)

 

quote="sfv41901, post: 1578583, member: 64600"] U controller that comes with the new switch & the Toyota Wish mirrors uses the button on the new mirror switch. It does not work off of the lock/unlock. Not sure if the mirrors can be spliced into the lock/unlock of the doors. The folding motor has only 2 leads. Power is applied to 2 lead & the other a ground to fold the mirror. The polarity is then reversed to unfold.

It took about 3-4 days to receive once they were shipped.

The problem I'm having right now is with the controller. 1 end plugs into the new mirror switch while the other end is suppose to plug into the OEM mirror switch harness on the car......well the connector on the connector doesn't match the connector on the car. Then the wires arnt in the same position from the controller to the car. The colors don't match up either. So I have an email out asking about these issues. I will update once I hear back.[/quote]
My initial understanding was that the connector you're referring to wasn't intended to hook straight into ours, since our wiring over here is different than . Instead, we are supposed to basically "figure out" which of those wires goes to which one of our car wires and hook them all up that way. For the benefit of others reading this who may be looking into doing this modification, I had told you in a private message how my bodyshop guy had switched the appropriate wires over to the original/oem mirror connector that plugged into the connector on the car, leaving the extra/additional wires taped to the side of the harness. Then the person who wires it up the rest of the way will just have to tie into those loose wires with the appropriate wires from the car. Not knowing a thing about wiring, I can't comprehend how I'd ever know which wires from the car go to which of those leftover wires coming from the mirror. That's where I have to pray for assistance from people like you!

 

These are the pictures of the kit courtesy of GoldPianoGarden:

 

If we can identify what color wires are going where, maybe we can start to understand how the system is designed to work.

Can you count how many wires run from the control box to the harness behind the mirror control switch, how many run to the mystery harness, and how many to neither? I count six from the control box.

My guess, in no particular order:
1. constant 12v (to neither)
2. door lock/unlock + (to neither)
3. mirror fold/unfold switch (to mirror control switch)
4. mirror fold/unfold, driver side, motor control (to mystery harness)
5. mirror fold/unfold, passenger side, motor control (to mystery harness)
6. common ground (-) (to mirror control switch)

also how many wires do you see in the mystery plug? I see nine.

Since most of them match in color to the mirror control plug, my guess is that they are (in no particular order)

1. main mirror motor feed
2. left/right movement, driver side, motor control
3. left/right movement, passenger side, motor control
4. up/down movement, driver side, motor control
5. up/down movement, passenger side, motor control
6. main folding feed
7. fold/unfold, driver side, motor control
8. fold/unfold, passenger side, motor control
9. common ground

i could very well be completely wrong. i'll poke around with my kit when it arrives and update if i figure out anything

 

I sent you an email with photos of the wiring for each connector on the harness that you can resize and stick in this thread somewhere if you want to. There are 8 wires going to the control box, 9 going to the car wiring, and 9 going to the folding mirror switch. Plus there is the long red wire and the long white wire, shown in previous post/pics....

 

Thank you, I'll take a crack at decoding it tonight

 

I'm seeing that you also have a 2012 PiP, I really like these pwr mirrors/LED covers.
Can you please PM me the eBay dealer and total price? I would like to order a set as well.
Thank you

 

Funny you ask, I was just looking for someone to sell my extra set of mirror lights! What color would you like the cover? I have already installed the mirror lights and then i ordered a set of motorized folding mirrors, which apparently include a set of mirror lights, so now I have an extra set of mirror lights. I also have an extra driver side mirror cover because the seller sent me two driver side covers by accident. I will try to see if the seller can sell me just a single passenger side mirror cover and I can sell you the whole kit, mirror lights and covers.

Edit: nevermind, I just reread your post and realized you want the motor+lights in which case they come together anyway.

 

I assume it's the same for your mirrors as for mine ---- The mirror lights on the pair of Toyota Wish mirrors don't fit on our mirrors. They're just "leftovers", along with the housing for the Wish mirrors. Only the inside parts from the folding/Wish mirrors get transferred over into the inside of our mirror housing; then we use the LED mirror covers from that same eBay seller and replace our mirror covers with them. Or does the 2012 come with the LED mirror covers as a standard feature now? (if so, I hate Toyota for doing that!!!! lol) As an aside, what is your mod background regarding all this wiring mumbo jumbo? I've always had to pay someone to figure this stuff out for me, as it's Greek to me! I am attempting to put my vent visors on my windows, though! lol! And I put on my Valenti smoked LED tail lights.... I'm really progressing! lol (pathetic, I know!)

 

OK, reading goldpianogarden's last post, I assume I can use your new 2012 PiP version of the LED side view covers.
The color on my PiP is Winter Gray and would like to have them in the same color. Do these come with an interface for the color changing thingy feature?

 

Do you have the same eBay screen name to?

 

yep! It's always kinda been "my thing"... lol! It's always interesting to me how people get their usernames. I managed a jewelry store for years (Friedman's Jewelers) until the chain went belly-up, thus the "gold" part. I play the piano professionally, thus the "piano" part. And, I have a giant tropical/botanical garden with over 1/2 million buckaroos of exotic plants that I've imported from all over the world (my "hobby" that got WAY out of control)....thus the "garden" part. So, I put my 3 "loves" together many moons ago and came up with goldpianogarden. And now you can say, "Too much info!" lol

 

that's interesting GoldPianoGarden, I was visualizing a garden full of trees growing golden pianos. I live on exit 13 of the Grand Central Parkway, so that explains me.

 

A very exotic screen name and I like it.
Mine is a nike name a coworker baptize me with 35 years ago.

 

On the connector in question from the controller, there are 9 wires. Our Prius connector has 9 wires as well but they are in different positions.

Prius connector: pins 1-8 have leads, pin 9 is empty & pin 10 has a lead.
Controller: pin 1 is empty & pins 2-10 have leads.

I also am wondering where the 2 leads from the folding motor go?

There are 5 wires inside the prius mirror. 2 for the heated glass & 3 for the adjustment motors.