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Old August-15th-2002 | 02:54 PM
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An Idea that I wish we had

We need heated mirrors, somehow someway there's gotta be one. I hate when you gotta drive in the morning and there's frost n fog on your mirrors. The MPV has heated mirrors n the fog n frost come right off in a matter of minutes. Does anyone know of a way to get them or where? Thanks.
Old August-15th-2002 | 07:39 PM
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Originally posted by TheMAN
The other way to do it is to get the JDM mirrors for our cars. Doing so will result in: no need to swap internals, and you also get electric folding capabilities (you need to get the mirror control switch to make that happen and do some wiring mods also). Yes, a lot of cars in Japan have mirrors that fold in with a press of a button (luxury cars here stateside are starting to have that "new" feature also; the Japanese have this for the past 20 years).
Too bad the JDM housings put the mirrors at the wrong angle. You'll have to turn them all the way out and you'll still have to lean all the way back to see out of them. Replacing the glass won't work either, the JDM ones are optimized for viewing from the other side of the car.

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Old August-15th-2002 | 07:41 PM
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Japan has had this mirror because there isn't enough room for parking . Taking a foot of the car you can park in tighter spaces
Old August-15th-2002 | 11:25 PM
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has anyone put heated mirrors on their protege?
Old August-16th-2002 | 02:47 AM
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Originally posted by TheMAN
Can be fixed by swapping housing parts from the US mirrors to the JDM ones.

You should be able to swap out the heater, but the power folding mechanism won't swap over. They look similar, but they're different on the inside. Already tried. BTW, the JDM folding mirrors either power fold or are heated, but not both.
Old August-16th-2002 | 09:17 PM
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thats cool power folding mirrors i would get those if u could what else does the jspec 3rd gen pro have that the us model doesnt?
Old August-18th-2002 | 04:42 AM
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Originally posted by BL_Protege
has anyone put heated mirrors on their protege?
Mine -99 Pro has heated mirrors and they are STOCK. Finnish P5's have heated mirrors so they are available, ask the dealer or order from Finnish junk yard
Old August-18th-2002 | 09:52 AM
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Originally posted by bougha


Mine -99 Pro has heated mirrors and they are STOCK. Finnish P5's have heated mirrors so they are available, ask the dealer or order from Finnish junk yard
that's awesome, but don't you think that'd be a little hard 2 get things from finland here 2 the us? where would I do that?
Old August-18th-2002 | 09:57 AM
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Originally posted by BL_Protege


that's awesome, but don't you think that'd be a little hard 2 get things from finland here 2 the us? where would I do that?
Well that's the smiley for

Cargo and taxes and tolls and what so ever might be pretty high. There were used gen3 electric mirrors for ~86 USD (www.autovahinkokeskus.fi) Unfortunately that site is in Finnish so i guess it's no use for you .

But how about your dealer there?
Old August-18th-2002 | 10:55 AM
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i have no clu yet i haven't gone there 2 ask
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