drivers side (LHD) mirror fault

[prelude]

The automatic dipping feature on my drivers side mirror (LHD) dips when I put the car in reverse, as it should, but when I take it out of reverse, instead of traveling back up to the original position, it travels the same distance down again. I can understand the BECM running this show and there is probably a sensor or something in there but I can manually get the mirror to go back up and mounting a different mirror there DOES work (though I wrecked the housing on that one) so I am a bit flabbergasted as to what that can possibly be!

Anyone have any ideas or tips?

Thanks ;)

-P

[Scouse]

It's a potentiometer fault, it uses these to tell the BECM where the mirror is in the housing. I have a car that dips up, not down due to this but I just disable the reverse dip now.

[prelude]

It can be disabled? How? :) I would love for that option to be turned off since I reverse a lot during offroading and it wears the motors in my opinion whilst it is not needed!

Cheers,

-P

[Scouse]

It's in the Owners Manual but you just turn the key to Accessories (IIRC, might be Ign but not running), put the gear lever into R & then hold down the seat memory button (I don't look, just feel - it's the long one) & it will come up Mirror Dip Disabled or similar.
Sorry to be so vague but it's just an automatic process I go through having a few of these on the road.

Disconnecting the battery re-enables it though.

[prelude]

Thanks Scott! that worked flawlessly, my mirrors are now stationary. If I ever get down under, I owe you a beer :)

-P

[FANTOM P38]

It is definitely a fault within mirror, as I had same issue with Fantom.
I tried swapping out switchpack in centre console - no help.
Then I tried swapping out door outstation - again no success.
So finally swapped out mirror - presto it works again!

Handy having a spare car sometimes - [bigsmile1]

[prelude]

This mirror already came from my spare since I kinda ruined the original way back when I was still learning to off road properly. I guess I could take the mirror apart to find the pot-meter but I'm a bit hesitant to take the glass off/out. Chances are it'll break and I am not really sure how to do it on these cars anyway.

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[TheTree]

This mirror already came from my spare since I kinda ruined the original way back when I was still learning to off road properly. I guess I could take the mirror apart to find the pot-meter but I'm a bit hesitant to take the glass off/out. Chances are it'll break and I am not really sure how to do it on these cars anyway.

-P

The glass is held in place by clips, very easy to remove.

I have actually become very used to the mirror dip and I find it really useful :)

Steve