avi8tir

I had posted this over on the GT3 forum, but didnt get a response.

I am trying to remove my 991 GT3 mirrors to send them off for some paint work.

I have gotten to the point of actually having the mirror off, but cannot get the wiring for the power mirror disconnected.

What am I missing? Is there an easier way to do this?

duxsi

Have you popped out the glass and tried going in from the front?

plenum

Take a pic of the connector you are struggling with... Might help us. But if I recall, the connector that you might be struggling with is down near the front-edge of the door, under the trim panel close to where the conduit runs from door through rubber boot to body of car. If you haven't taken the entire trim panel off, it is under that. Might have a picture around here somewhere... The entire wiring harness from that point gets pulled-out through the door with the mirror.

STG

Plenum-- did I miss a post about the hood?? I know you did the sunroof black a while back.

Pics??

Looks good.

plenum

Oh, you are very observant! I literally just changed my avatar 30 minutes ago!!!

You didn't miss anything... I wrapped the hood last night, to match the roof. I haven't posted a link to my blog post about it on here yet. But here it is: 991 Hood Wrap

More to come soon (sorry to OP for the side-tracking here...).

STG

^^^^ Thanks for sharing. Nice work!

ddsRepTarga4S

I am actually trying to do this now, my mirror got snapped off by a deer. I purchased the new arms that screw into the door but cannot figure out how to get the wiring out of the mirror arm. I have almost a square purrple connect that no way can pass through a tiny hole. Im curious how people disconnect this, and does the wiring have to go back in the same order?

Laszlo_Laz

This is a pretty good install video that should help. It’s a lot of work.

ddsRepTarga4S

thank you, I have watched this before and it specifically says in the video that he doesn’t detach the wires. My issue is I need that arm replaced because mine was snapped off, I got a new one but I need to pull out the wires and reinsert it again into the new arm

Laszlo_Laz

Ah, I see. Hopefully someone can chime in. I found a diagram that might help and an eBay ad where you might be able to figure out how to reverse engineer it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133998454509

Joec500

You may need to unsnap the entire Mirror assembly to get that wiring harness out of the mirror housing.

Live Steam

It looks like you'll have to remove the connectors on the harness in order to extract it from the mirror armature. Even if you remove the door panel to access the other end of the harness, you'll still have to remove connectors to extract it from the armature as the other end has them too and they also won't fit thru the hole the wire is routed thru. May as well just do it from the outside and save some work. Just protect the side of the door from getting damaged during the process.

Pb Pedis

Great resources posted in this thread by Laszlo_Laz - thank you!!! I am completely replacing my sport design mirrors (i.e. supports, housings and frames) with DB Carbon pieces - but that video guaranteed that I won't be doing the work myself.