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electric folding mirrors, alarm, 98 impreza

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Forum Name: Car Security and Convenience
Forum Discription: Car Alarms, Keyless Entries, Remote Starters, Immobilizer Bypasses, Sensors, Door Locks, Window Modules, Heated Mirrors, Heated Seats, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=116078
Printed Date: May 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM


Topic: electric folding mirrors, alarm, 98 impreza

Posted By: riz k
Subject: electric folding mirrors, alarm, 98 impreza
Date Posted: September 03, 2009 at 11:45 AM

hi i have 1998 subaru impreza with a clifford 3.3x installed, my car has electric folding mirrors what i wanted to do was connect the mirrors up to the alarm so they fold when i arm and unfold when i disarm. The mirrors need the ignition to acc and constant power to fold and unfold and dont work off a pulse is there any way i can make a circuit for this to work.



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Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: September 03, 2009 at 1:21 PM

To fold the mirrors, you have to know what the switch is doing, in otherwords fold the mirrors with a meter at the back of the switch. You will probably find that 1 wire goes to ground whilst another goes live while the switch is pushed, reverse those wires for the other direction, so you need one relay as an  interrupt circuit, drive off one of your aux outlets set to timed on arming.  On disarm power a 508d with an acc feed  set for the number of secs it takes to open the mirrors, then they will automatically open on starting the car, but you have to work out what the switch is doing.





Posted By: riz k
Date Posted: September 03, 2009 at 1:28 PM
ill test the wires mate would you be able to do a rough diagram for me to wire this up




Posted By: riz k
Date Posted: September 04, 2009 at 8:19 AM
right on my alarm i have an auxillary harness which has two wires one of them gives out a negative output when armed and the other gives out a negative output when disarmed is there any way i can use these wires to fold the mirrors in and out?




Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: September 04, 2009 at 10:56 AM

No point til you tell me about the switch.





Posted By: riz k
Date Posted: September 04, 2009 at 12:22 PM
right tested the switch and your right mate the 1 wire does go to ground and vice versa




Posted By: riz k
Date Posted: September 04, 2009 at 12:29 PM
it may be easier to make a circuit so the mirrors fold in and out with the ignition this would work with my remote start to




Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: September 04, 2009 at 5:30 PM

You would need to wire an aux from the alarm setting it to activate for about 5 seconds timed (or however long it takes the mirrors to fold in + 1 sec.) Find the wire that goes pos at the switch on folding the mirrors, cut it,  now take that wire and cut it. join the switch side to 87a on a relay, join the  mirrors side to 30 your aux wire to 85, join a constant 12v+ fused at 10amps to 87 and and 86. That takes care of the fold in. To fold out 2 methods. 1) Set up another aux wire, timed for the same time to activate on disarm,  use the wire from the mirror switch and wire up to another relay in exactly the same way. 2) Take a feed from the ignition circuit, use a 508d and cut the blue loop. Take the ignition wire to BLACK/ white on 508d, yellow  and red on 508d to same fuse as before (iether way only one fuse is needed) cut the wire that goes live on fold out, switch side to orange on 508d and mirrors side to brown. job done.

To close the mirrors on ignition shutdown you would need a second 508d, wired as before except don't cut the blue loop wire this time and sustitute the fold in + wire for the fold out as above. Set the timer pot on the 508d again for what you worked out originally.





Posted By: t&t tech
Date Posted: September 04, 2009 at 5:43 PM

How'd you work out that 508d method howard?

I did mirror folds a couple times, the ones i'm accustomed to are reversing polarity, i use five relays in total, i extend the pulse on the lock and unlock wires to 3.5 seconds (DEI) and trigger the relays with this, the fifth relay separates the constant feed to the relays with an igntion source, to prevent the mirrors from folding in with the ignition controlled door lock!



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Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: September 05, 2009 at 3:44 AM
Oh bother, had a rotten day yesterday, now repeat 100 times 528t timer relay not 508d dual zone prox, thanks t&t for actually reading my post.




Posted By: riz k
Date Posted: September 07, 2009 at 8:28 AM
cheers for all the help mate someone told me that i can connect them to the ignition with a 12vdc/10a dpdt relay he said to connect a constant 12v power source to pins 1, and 4. A ground to pins 2, 3, and 8. Pins 5, and 6 to the mirrors. and an ignition activated power source (cig lighter) to pin 7. is this correct and will it work with the ignition this just seems like an easier option





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