eletric mirror wiring

Hi Dutchie2

I have electric mirror left hand in my 78 Longchamp. If it'll help I can take off the door skin, look at wire colours etc. But it'll take a few days, pretty busy this week, both with the car and work.

Let me know if that'll help.

Hi Mikael,

Tht would be a great help for me! No rush for me so anytime in the next few weeks is fine.

Thanks

Chiel

Hi
Just had ½ hour waiting for something to cool down... (not me, the car)

There are 5 wires to 6 ports, all soldered on:
Constant +: Blue/white
Constant -: Black/white
Up: Blue and Yellow
Down: Red and Yellow
Left: Blue
Right: Red

Hope this helps

Dutchie,

Let's see those mirrors close up on your car?

Are they chrome or have you painted them body colour?

Easy to fit, or a pain in the ar$e:-)

Phil
79 Longchamp GTS 3061

Mikael,

Thanks for the info! I'll keep you posted on the progress wit hooking up the XJS mirror.

Phil,

I'll thry to take a photo of it this week. It is a chrome unit, only on the drivers side. I had to grind back the top half of the foot since it was too round for a proper fit. It was a half hour job and you can still use the original plastic gasket once you're done.
It is a little larger than a Vitaloni unit but not so that it looks out of place on a deauville.
For me it blends in well with all the other chrome and the serie 1 chrome bumpers that it have.

For your info also. A few years back I came across a Swiss Longchamp GTS in pretty much your grey colour that had Porsche 924/944 mirrors fitted. The square colour coded ones which were electric and heated as well. It had a center console mounted control unit which was not a porsche unit for shure.
I had a 924 turbo back then and it seemed that, after comparing, to me that the mounting plates had very little or even no modifications done to it. Looked very good and blended in very nice with the square look of a GTS.
The vendor was very persitend in saying that it was an original factory option. Who knows?
Maybe Wellis can shed some light on this?

Chiel

Hi Chiel,

Look forward to your photo's.

OK on the chrome:-)

Good to hear about the Porker mirrors. I'll have to check them out.

Thanks.

Phil
79 Longchamp GTS 3061

If anyone needs a pair of original vitalonis, mine are available, as I don´t need them anymore. Remote control units too.

Hi Jani
Do you have a picture of them? Are they both remote or only driver? Any rust, my driver side was very rusty.

Thanks

Both are electric remotes. I don´t have pictures, and the mirrors are 400 km away. I´ll take some photo after I get the car from the paint shop.

Hi Jani
Any news on the pictures of the mirrors and of your car with paint?

My job sometimes takes me to Vantaa, are you and your car close by?

Hi,

I will be picking up the car this friday, and drive it to Helsinki this saturday. Photos will follow..

I live in Helsinki, which borders Vantaa, so I´m very close by. Let me know when you´re around.

No rust.

Hi Jani. They look good. I'll let you know next time I'm in Finland. Since my right mirror today is not electric, is the joystick included?

Thanks

Sure, take both of them, I have no use for them.

OK, so now it's my turn to get lost in the wiring. Jani's good mirrors and joysticks are going on my car, but I can't get it to work electrically.

All 3 electric mirrors I now have are the same wiring: red, light blue, yellow, yellow

And of course in each door there's plus and ground.

From Jani I also got 2 new joysticks, marked LH and RH. The LH has one more wire, not sure why, what else than move in 4 directions could it do?

Joysticks
LH: white/black, white/light blue, yellow, light blue, red/black, red
RH: white/black, white/light blue, yellow, light blue, none, red

Does anyone know how to hook these up? Burned enough fuses now... When I was most successful I could get the mirrors to move left/right but not up/down.

Mikael; Not sure if this is the same for your mirrors, but this was found when we were moving a bunch of the paperwork from the factory last month.

http://lotsoc.com:8443/detomas...CF04252010_00000.pdf
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Wellis, super, looks just like what I needed, I'll test perhaps tonight...

Tested it now and it worked fine with the RH joystick. The LH worked occasionally. Took it apart, somebody has tried to solder it, and the thing that switches from one mirror to another when the joystick is turned is gone.

So now I need:
Either a new LH 6 wire joystick (and wiring from one door to the other)
Or a new RH 5 wire joystick, then I have to adjust right mirror from inside of door (need long arms)
Anybody got these??

Managed to build 2 functioning of the 3 joysticks I got. One of them was a two mirror type, but the internal slide that you use to choose which mirror to control was missing and it had been soldered quite a bit.

So in the end I gave up on controlling both mirrors from one joystick, and now have joysticks on both doors. Just need very long arms now...

M- welcome to the world of works as designed. Some of my most Fond memories of my aunt yelling at my mother that she had touched to passenger joystick. I know that some of the later cars had the one joystick, but my aunt always had a California mirror that she loved on the driver side with a mechanical stick. I had the job of painting it when someone had run into it. It always seemed to happen when we were at that Rome racetrack.

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It always seemed to happen when we were at that Rome racetrack.

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this was found when we were moving a bunch of the paperwork from the factory last month

You didn't happen to find a Longchamp wiring diagram???

Today I put new loudspeakers in the Champ, the old original ones sounded like under water. That involved working in the rear seat with a crowbar, a chisel and a sledgehammer! A bit scary. They’re in and sound a lot better...

M, trust me if we had found a wiring diagram, I would have posted it.

Nothing that interesting.

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