Does anyone know where I can get a couple of door looms (one each side) for a Mk 1 with the mirror connectors?
Assuming you have acquired electric adjustable mirrors from another car, you’ll need a lot more wiring than just inside the door. There’s the car to door loom for starters, plus all the wiring from the dash to each door connector. That is one major job, unless you can get hold of a complete loom you will have a hard time fitting and using the mirrors. You need to be more specific in describing exactly what you have, and where from.(model of donor car)
As Gerryn states, this can be one major job.
You don’t state what Mk1 you have, which is worth putting at the bottom of your posts but if it is a Eunos then you may find that the dashboard part of the loom is already present, mine was. Not sure about the MX5 but someone will know.
Look behind the three switch holes on the RHS of the steering wheel and you may find the socket already there, some cars have the mirror switch in the bottom of the centre console so check there also. This loom if present terminates in the A pillars with a socket into which plugs the door part of the loom.
Connecting this part of the loom is a pig of a job as you have to feed the wires through the rubber part and then plug into the socket, difficult unless you can get the door wide open as you first have to get access to the socket.
Getting hold of the door looms is very hit & miss as they rarely crop up for sale, I waited nine months before I found a pair and they came with the cables for windows & speaker as well so fairly bulky to fit.
You could of course make your own looms with the aid of the wiring diagram, the door ones are simple enough but the main loom might be more problematic and you would need connectors at the A pillar to enable the door to be removed if required.
Fitting the mirrors is just a straight swop but be careful if you break the glass replacements are not available, don’t ask me how I know, and it’s a new mirror job.
Good luck and PM me if I can be of any further help.
Dave
Thank you, Gerryn and Dave,
Apologies for delay in replying - my system wouldn’t let me get into OC website - kept telling me that it was unsafe!!
You are quite right, I should have given more detail. I have a Mk1 California, 1995. It has manual windows and manual mirrors. The strange thing is that it has the wiring in a connector on the blank window switch. I was hoping that, in that case, the wiring might have been in the doors. No chance! I have taken off all the NS door trim and the glove box, which gives access to the terminal block on the A post. The connectors on the mirrors I have bought from Autolink are trianagular, with three poles. Autolink have given me the part numbers for the looms - NB12 67190 (electric windows as well) or NO27 67190 (Manual windows). Since posting the original question, I have now bought two sets of door looms on ebay; I’ll take the risk that one set will fit, maybe I have wasted my money, I’ll see.
The real question now is, if there is wiring for the switch, does that go to the two A posts?
Have now received the looms bought on ebay which have proved not to be the correct sort.
So, to continue, is anyone breaking a Mk1? I need door looms - either NB12 67190 or NO 27 67190.