All should be sorted and working tomorrow once wired in! Its from a mk5 golf and is an auto dimming rear view mirror.

Cool.

Nice idea. I had my eye on doing this, but the next chariot might already have one fitted now anyway

Makes a big difference in other cars I've driven with one fitted - nicely filters out the annoying traffic with cr@p HID kits and the stupidly bright std BMW X5/Range Rover/Cayenne xenons (it's always as if their self levelling is broken??)

Cheers,

Steve

~£50 though..?

Edit: ebay says its gone down now..! time for shopping.

Edited 27 July, 201015 yr by JLneonhug

I did it on my old 206 and was one of the best mods I did as I do a fair bit of nightime motorway driving. Plus I'm lazy! Lol

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It cost me £10 posted of the bay.

Bloody bargain! When I last looked all the ones I saw were north of £40 on BIN.

Well played

£10?! wheres that? - still on the hunt on ebay atm. Does it need to be mk5? from the pic it looks like it only needs power..? I like the look of the bmw ones..

Had one of these on my Bora TDI Sport, had car for nearly 5 years, and have really missed auto dimmer since got the vRS.

They are excellent. All you will need should be a power feed to it.

May be able to get one off a Golf MK4?, the Bora's from SE model upwards have them as standard - prob cheaper than MK5 Golf

Lewwy

£10?! wheres that? - still on the hunt on ebay atm. Does it need to be mk5? from the pic it looks like it only needs power..? I like the look of the bmw ones..

no reason why it needs to be a mk5 golf one? Im using the existing skoda clip and ball joint as the mk5 bits wont fit, It needs a positive feed (red), an earth (blue) and you cant see in the pic but theres a grey wire thatll be wired into the reverse light to clear the dimming when reverse is selected.

well it turned out to be a little less straight forward than id hoped! The mirror doesnt clip on using the mk5 clip so i thought id use the fabia ball clip from the old mirror.Too small though! :S

So its back to the drawing board i think!

nice idea, hope it work out

I could be being reaaaaally dense here but: does this just need literally power and an earth to work? Meaning in theory I could run this off a transformer at home? Just trying to clarify that it can be fitted too any car as the mirror has the sensors etc in built.

I could be being reaaaaally dense here but: does this just need literally power and an earth to work? Meaning in theory I could run this off a transformer at home? Just trying to clarify that it can be fitted too any car as the mirror has the sensors etc in built.

yeah mate thats right.

Brilliant, thanks!

Guess what I'll be looking for now. . .