Mine were supplied with 4 8mm ball joints and 4 6mm ball joints, didn’t have to adjust them or anything, had 2 sets of each in the bag. They are suprisingly good tbf.

My power folding mirrors arrived today and as it goes I was busy this morning but free this afternoon so I made the most of it and got cracking fitting them. Now I should mention in case you don’t know, I live in Wales and it rains about 377 days a year so some of these pictures show some rain falling, but it cleared up later in the day.

 

The first job in my case is to change the mirror covers over because, as you can clearly see, these ones are red and mine are black. You need to angle the mirror glass over toward the mount (toward the car if you are doing this with mirrors mounted on a car) and insert a flat blade screwdriver about a third of the way down to pry off the release tab. I didn’t think to take a picture of me removing the red ones and there would be no point in me showing you the black ones as you won’t be able to see, so I’ve stolen this image of a white cap so you can see what you need to remove.

 

 

 

The mirrors will then look something like this. You’ll need to do the same on the original mirrors and then reattach the covers you want to keep on the folding mirrors.

 

Next remove this piece of trim. There is a gap in the trim to insert a pry tool where my finger is in this image.

 

 

 

 

 

Once that’s done, you must unplug the wiring for the mirror switch.

 

Remove the switch from the bottom and then unplug the connector. Once you’ve done that, get a long T27 tool and undo one of the bolts that holds the door card on. 

 

At the bottom of the door card there is this little socket thing. You need a 10mm spanner to twist the nut and line it up with the cutout in the door card.

 

After you’ve done that, the window switches need to come out. A plastic pry tool is needed to pry up the switch panel being careful not to slip and mark anything. Here are where the tabs are to pry.

 

Next the other bolt needs to come out with the T27 tool, being careful not to drop it. 

 

Remove the light from the bottom of the door and unplug it. 

 

Once that’s done, pull the door card away from the car starting from the bottom being careful not to break too many of the tabs. I broke one on each door so I’ll order some in to replace them. When the door card is loose down the sides and at the bottom, you will need to lift it up and away from the window ledge. The tweeter grill is also lifted up and away from the door.

 

Next unplug the mirror plug from the door controller and route the wiring out.

 

 

Next you’ll need an M10 spline tool to remove the bolt holding the mirror on and once undone the mirror should pull away.

 

 

Refitting is the reverse of the removal, nothing extra to add, just replace like for like. 

 

On the passenger side the process is the same, however there is no mirror switch and there are no window switches, just a blank panel.

 

 

 

 

Once you’ve refitted everything, you’ll need to code the mirrors in as follows

 

To enable lock/unlock power folding mirrors with key fob:
[09] Central Electronics
[16] Security Access - Code is 31347, click "Do it!"
[10] Adaptation, choose from the drop down channel

[24] - Access control 2 - Funk Spiegelanklappung Modus change to “by look command via remote control key”

[26] - Access control 2 - Menuesteuerung Funkspiegelanklappen change to “active”

[34] - Access control 2 - Profilfunktion fur Anklappung der Aussenspiegel

[35] - Access control 2 - Signalisierung Spiegelanklappung

Then in the car….
In the Media display
Click "Car"
"Setup"
"Mirrors & Wipers", select the option for “Fold away after parking.

To enable field lights on side mirrors:

[42] Door Electronics Driver Side
- Long Coding
-front_field_light --> active
-turn_off_front_field_light_with_folded_mirror --> active

[52] Door Electronics Passenger Side
- Long Coding
-front_field_light --> active
-turn_off_front_field_light_with_folded_mirror --> active

 

And that should be that, time to test and watch them fold in by themselves. Unless of course you are me. Then you will have mirrors that don’t fold in on the button and you sit there checking and rechecking for 20 mins wondering why they aren’t working, then browse through various German Golf forums, at this point raging about the fact they don’t work before you finally re check the part numbers of the door controllers and notice they end in 392 and 393. These are midline door controllers and don’t support folding mirrors, they need to be ones that end in 592 and 593 which you could have sworn they said before you bought the mirrors, but obviously you need stronger glasses. Great. Put in a quick phone call to the breakers yard you bought the mirrors from and negotiate the door controllers down to £30 and wait until the weekend to take it all apart again and change the door controllers. What’s that about Specsavers Black Friday deals?? What a total idiot  

Edited 27 November, 20187 yr by SashaGrace
Fixing image links. It’s not been a good day!

great tutorial thanks this is on my list but my breaker is too savvy about the actual cost so ill have to wait a while.

You’re welcome, just remember to check your door controllers first lol 

Cracking effort on another retrofit @SashaGrace! What's next 

Great job. Are they autodimming or is that another mod you're working on? I think this is one of the best value options, particularly useful at this time of year. 

13 minutes ago, ahenners said:

Cracking effort on another retrofit @SashaGrace! What's next 

Getting these sorted first haha, hopefully the new door controllers will be here by the weekend.

6 minutes ago, Redboy said:

Great job. Are they autodimming or is that another mod you're working on? I think this is one of the best value options, particularly useful at this time of year. 

They are supposed to be autodimming I think, but they don’t look like the ones on my Mercedes. Pretty sure they should be autodimming as that came with the folding option iirc but I’m not sure how accurate that info is.

55 minutes ago, SashaGrace said:

Getting these sorted first haha, hopefully the new door controllers will be here by the weekend.

They are supposed to be autodimming I think, but they don’t look like the ones on my Mercedes. Pretty sure they should be autodimming as that came with the folding option iirc but I’m not sure how accurate that info is.

There should be a thin black line that goes around the edge of the glass for autodimming.

2 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

You’re welcome, just remember to check your door controllers first lol 

 

Another good write up Sasha, pity about the door controller's, but watching your progress through this thread, that isn't going to bother you. 

 

Keep up the good work/log 

57 minutes ago, match14 said:

There should be a thin black line that goes around the edge of the glass for autodimming.

Thanks for the tip, I’ll have a look tomorrow

14 minutes ago, Stonker said:

 

Another good write up Sasha, pity about the door controller's, but watching your progress through this thread, that isn't going to bother you. 

 

Keep up the good work/log 

Thanks. I hope it’ll all be sorted when they arrive. Doing half this work again and changing the controllers isn’t the issue for me, it’s making sure everything in the doors work again when I’m done!!

After changing the door controllers to ones that support folding mirrors, we have...

 

 

 

Oh yeah, much much better  Cost = £275 for mirrors and switch, £30 for door controllers, and about 90 mins fitting time (about 10 mins per side extra for me to remove the door cards and swap the door controllers over). Also realised I missed a couple of steps in the coding above. It should read like this 

 

[09] Central Electronics
[16] Security Access - Code is 31347, click "Do it!"
[10] Adaptation, choose from the drop down channel

[24] - Access control 2 - Funk Spiegelanklappung Modus change to “by look command via remote control key”

[26] - Access control 2 - Menuesteuerung Funkspiegelanklappen change to “active”

[34] - Access control 2 - Profilfunktion fur Anklappung der Aussenspiegel

[35] - Access control 2 - Signalisierung Spiegelanklappung

Then in the car….
In the Media display
Click "Car"
"Setup"
"Mirrors & Wipers", select the option for "Fold away after parking".

To enable mirror folding and field lights on side mirrors:

[42] Door Electronics Driver Side
- Long Coding
-front_field_light --> active
-turn_off_front_field_light_with_folded_mirror --> active

 

- mirror_folding -> installed

 

-mirror_comfort_folding -> active

[52] Door Electronics Passenger Side
- Long Coding
-front_field_light --> active
-turn_off_front_field_light_with_folded_mirror --> active

 

- mirror_folding -> installed

 

-mirror_comfort_folding -> active

 

Hope this install proves useful  

Edited 29 November, 20187 yr by SashaGrace
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On 18/05/2018 at 15:51, Pittsy said:

I certainly did, got a bit messed up due to a unplanned rain shower, just need to rub it down and blow it over again 

@Pittsy mate how did you get the original off? 

@SashaGrace What are you doing with the red caps?  I may have them off you if still in good nick?  Postage plus beer money of course 

They are in good condition with only the lightest of marks on the paint. Ideally I’d like them to go with the mirrors though, but I welcome a pm with an offer

On 31/10/2018 at 16:22, SashaGrace said:

I have always hated the stupid stick that originally held the bonnet up and a set of gas struts have been on the cards for a while now but I could never justify £40 for them from SuperSkoda. I was recommended this set from eBay for £7.50 that do the job just as well. They are a little longer than the ones from SuperSkoda but they work really well as you can see.

 

 

They lift the bonnet well too

 

They take only minutes to fit once you have a 10mm socket to remove the ring bolts and an M10 spline tool to remove the bolt that holds the bonnet hinge on. Much better than the stupid stick!!

 

Link here https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F192589481940

 

Price is now £8.58 but still worth it

 

 

 

Great job, how easy are they to fit? I've not taken a look at the fixing locations yet but is there much work required to get these to fit etc?

 

 

They are very easy to fit, you’ll need a 10 mm spline tool to remove the bonnet hinge fixing and I think the wing bolt is requires a 10mm socket. The new ball joints in this kit use a 12 mm fixing so you’ll need a 12 mm spanner. The wing bolts are M6 thread and the bonnet bolts are M8 thread. It’s great to have a helper to hold the bonnet open while you are doing it, but it’s possible to do it by yourself

 

24 minutes ago, SashaGrace said:

They are very easy to fit, you’ll need a 10 mm spline tool to remove the bonnet hinge fixing and I think the wing bolt is requires a 10mm socket. The new ball joints in this kit use a 12 mm fixing so you’ll need a 12 mm spanner. The wing bolts are M6 thread and the bonnet bolts are M8 thread. It’s great to have a helper to hold the bonnet open while you are doing it, but it’s possible to do it by yourself

 

Thanks!

 

So you need to remove the top hinge fitting and replace this with the top of the gas strut. 

 

Then I notice there is a hole on the inside of the wing where the bottom fixing of the gas strut would go.  Thats the two mounting holes?

 

Cheers!

The 2 fixings circled need replacing with ball joints

 

 

1 hour ago, SashaGrace said:

They are in good condition with only the lightest of marks on the paint. Ideally I’d like them to go with the mirrors though, but I welcome a pm with an offer

 

Pm sent. 

On 27/11/2018 at 20:38, match14 said:

There should be a thin black line that goes around the edge of the glass for autodimming.

 

In case it helps, this is what the auto-dimming door mirror glass looks like, pictured here on a Kodiaq...

 

By the look of it these ones aren’t auto dimming which is a bit of a shame, but I really wanted the power folding so that’s ok. It also means if I break a glass removing one this weekend for the LED modules then I have a spare!

Camera as finally arrived!!

 

 

Also ordered the final mod of the year (or the first mod of next year, depending when they arrive), dynamic indicators for the mirrors!! Yes those swishy swipy indicators are finally available for the Octy 3 on eBay and AliExpress. I half heartedly started looking ages back but it seems the Octy was being left out. Someone on the Octy 3 vRS Facebook group was more persistent than me and found a set for the Octy 3 so I have placed my order, hopefully they’ll be here in a few weeks. They so cool!!

 

10 minutes ago, SashaGrace said:

Camera as finally arrived!!

 

 

Also ordered the final mod of the year (or the first mod of next year, depending when they arrive), dynamic indicators for the mirrors!! Yes those swishy swipy indicators are finally available for the Octy 3 on eBay and AliExpress. I half heartedly started looking ages back but it seems the Octy was being left out. Someone on the Octy 3 vRS Facebook group was more persistent than me and found a set for the Octy 3 so I have placed my order, hopefully they’ll be here in a few weeks. They so cool!!

 

 

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I wish I'd ticked the camera option so I can't wait to see the results 

 

Nice tree  by the way 

Saturday hopefully  I didn’t put the tree up on December 1st and I didn’t decorate it either. Call be bah humbug but I’d have only bothered with it for a week or so around Christmas but such is life with a 3 year old... 

#Sasha - Do you know if those bonnet struts are available on Amazon? Cant seem to find them ;O

 

Also.. Where did you get the reverse camera? 

 

-JW