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HighlanderGeneral discussion forum for the Toyota Highlander and Highlander Hybrid.
This is a discussion thread titled "Alright everyone: Cross your fingers!!!!!", within the Highlander forum, part of the SUV Forums category.
I don't know that he actually installed it just yet??
I do know that the whole mirror must be removed as well as the door panel to run the wiring to the existing turn signal circuit inside the vehicle. A hole must be drilled somewhere in a discreet area of the mirror to get the Cover's wires to route through the Mirror housing. The correct and neat way to do this.
It's a little more time consuming then it appears. Simply sticking the covers on is not the hard part obviously. It is the last step of the install.
It depends what hard is. Everyone has their own perspective on disassembly.
I don't feel it is hard... on a scale of 1-10 I would give this mod a 4.
I would say 2 hours each mirror. Taking ones time including wiring. For me personally. I'll save the Heiny's for afterwards.
LT
Just saw the LED mirror photos on your cardomain site, they sure look perfect fit! Congratulations!
I am still interested in your LED tail lights project. You still got these LED tails? If you are not planning on doing it soon, would you mind to tell me where you purchased them? I might want to give a shot. Thanks.
Hey Memaster, thanks! I do still have the LED tail light, but have not had time to work on that project so far. Last year and this one have been crazy with moving and now looking to purchase a house. I purchased the LED tail from ebay, so keep an eye on there and they will turn up.
Cerivera: I have not gotten a quote yet and I have not been able to find a company that will chrome them for me. Seem like everyone only chromes metal and not plastic.
I did however, find out that Duplicolor makes spray paint that matches our factory Toyota Paint. I was thinking I may just paint these myself with this paint. Check out Duplicolor's website if you get a chance.
I am betting that since you have a friend at the body shop, you will be able to get a pretty good deal though.
I will still post my quote from the body shop as soon as I get over there.
wow talk about super fast delivery, they sent them out on the 18th and I got them today!! they look great, havent had time to outfit them to make sure they fit(dont see a problem) they look great though
I have not installed these yet. The pictures on my cardomain page was just of the Signal mirror covers placed on my mirrors to see if they actually fit.
I will put a how to when I install these for anyone who is interested. I believe you will need to splice these signal wires with your factory signal wires. not hard to do.
Alright, I finally got around to calling a body shop in my area to see how much they would charge me to paint these LED mirror Covers with matching paint to the body color and they said $40! SWEET!!!
They use dupont paint and a clear coat and will paint them just as they would any part of the car, so it will be very durable and professional looking!
I have actually had body work on other cars of mine in the past workined on here and they do a great job!
I am dropping these off Monday morning and he said I should have them back in a day or less!
I will post install pictures "how to" for everyone. I hope to install them the following weekend.
LOL! Will do. I really thought it was going to cost $100+ to get these professionally painted. This is wonderful!
I was thinking about the install of these and the last time I installed LEd signal mirror covers was on my Infiniti I30. That car had driving lights and a seperate turn signal that only turned on when you had your signal on. I taped into those wires on that car so the LED signal mirror covers only were on if the signal was on.
On the Highlander our driving light is the turn signal, so the light is on all the time and then just blinks when the signal is engaged. I have been trying to figure out where I should tap into in order to just have my LED Signal mirror covers on ONLY when the signal is engaged. I don't want them on all the time when the lights are on. hmmmmm
If anyone has any ideas, lets go through them here.
I was thinking I could tap into the REAR signal since that is only on when the signal is on. ???? Just a thought.
LOL! Will do. I really thought it was going to cost $100+ to get these professionally painted. This is wonderful!
I was thinking about the install of these and the last time I installed LEd signal mirror covers was on my Infiniti I30. That car had driving lights and a seperate turn signal that only turned on when you had your signal on. I taped into those wires on that car so the LED signal mirror covers only were on if the signal was on.
On the Highlander our driving light is the turn signal, so the light is on all the time and then just blinks when the signal is engaged. I have been trying to figure out where I should tap into in order to just have my LED Signal mirror covers on ONLY when the signal is engaged. I don't want them on all the time when the lights are on. hmmmmm
If anyone has any ideas, lets go through them here.
I was thinking I could tap into the REAR signal since that is only on when the signal is on. ???? Just a thought.
On the driver side under the sill mouldings and carpet yu can access the left and right signal circuits(body wire loom). Use the skits from the serv. manual to acertain color codes. Verify with your DVM meter. Yu know the rest of course.
To supplement LT's posting -- good news about LEDs is that they don't require a lot of current. Taping into the rear signal lines would be a good approach and I would not expect that the turn signal LEDs would cause any overloading issues for those circuits.
However - I'd probably add a 1 amp in-line fuse at the left and right side harness tap points. That way, if for some reason the mirror LED lines ever got shorted -- the fuse would blow and the short condition wouldn't end up taking out the entire turn signal circuit.
Re: Alright everyone: Cross your fingers!!!!!
You still got these LED tails? If you are not planning on doing it soon, would you mind to tell me where you purchased them? I might want to give a shot. Thanks.
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