# how to install side mirrors with light markers?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [January 23, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204 "2006-01-23T14:31:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@amd3dnow3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/amd3dnow3)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/1 "2006-01-23T14:31:15Z")
i just bought new side mirrors with light markers, ok i installed mirrors no problem but how do i get the side markers working???
the mirror has 5 wires and these mirrors are powered, the car mirror OEM have connector plug, but these mirrors dont, and colors don’t match, what should i do.
mirrors came with no documentation.
1992 accord lx 4/dr
thnx
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### Author:  [@focusinprogress](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/focusinprogress)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/2 "2006-01-23T16:06:21Z")
hahahaha good luck with that one…95accordvtec bought some nice m3 style mirrors with the led signals in them, power as well. we got the lights working but no matter what we did we could not get the power mirror to work so he has to do it by hand. if you figure out how to do it please post a how-to
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### Author:  [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/3 "2006-01-23T16:11:09Z")
for starters, buy a multimeter.
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### Author:  [@amd3dnow3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/amd3dnow3)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/4 "2006-01-23T16:11:37Z")
lol, thnx for good news man, and yea if i do ill post. how did you get the markers working???
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### Author:  [@amd3dnow3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/amd3dnow3)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/5 "2006-01-25T19:13:36Z")
hey focus how u get the light markers working??? were did you put the wires, the black and white 1???
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### Author:  [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/6 "2006-01-25T20:57:04Z")
jeezus
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### Author:  [@ieatpaint](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ieatpaint)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/7 "2006-01-26T04:12:31Z")
Here’s what I would do:
Black is ground.
Cut your turn signal wire and touch it to each wire from the mirror until the signal works, then solder and tape them up.
Next put a hot wire on each of the other wires to see which direction they move the mirror, and label it.
Then you’re going to have to cut your mirror plug off and connect the corresponding directions to the ones you just found.
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### Author:  [@focusinprogress](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/focusinprogress)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/8 "2006-01-26T08:44:21Z")
the set we got had the directions for what wire for the signals did what, so we jumped on babelfish to get crude translation and just did those wire clip things that you samwich over the wire and it crimps through the loom on the corresponding power wires for the front signal socket and front marker socket. if you need a write up PM me
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/9 "2006-01-26T08:54:17Z")
oh god, not those horrid things, soldering is so easy, please just solder it
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### Author:  [@focusinprogress](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/focusinprogress)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/10 "2006-01-26T09:34:11Z")
lol, we did, we did that to test to make sure it was right before we went cutting the wires, they are now neatly soldered up and shrink wraped
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/11 "2006-01-26T09:42:35Z")
> [@Violator](#):
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> jeezus
:word:
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### Author:  [@95AccordVtec](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/95AccordVtec)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/12 "2006-01-26T13:15:35Z")
> [@focusinprogress](#):
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> hahahaha good luck with that one…95accordvtec bought some nice m3 style mirrors with the led signals in them, power as well. we got the lights working but no matter what we did we could not get the power mirror to work so he has to do it by hand. if you figure out how to do it please post a how-to
actually Nick, I did get the mirrors to power up correctly and work. now I can control where they point by using the controls inside the car. no need to roll down the windows anymore and adjust the mirror by hand. what i did was, i cut the oem connector off the car (left enough wire to re-attach it later if need be) and stripped the wires. then i cut the mirror’s wires and stripped them. then i just guess and checked. i connected all the wires and just hit the controls and watched where the mirror went. i know that’s not the best way to do it, but it worked …
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### Author:  [@focusinprogress](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/focusinprogress)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/13 "2006-01-26T15:42:38Z")
why isnt that the best way to do it? of course it is. anyway, i dindt know you got them working. good deal…now go outside and post up what color wire goes from the LED’s to the front signals to help out Amd3dnow3
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### Author:  [@amd3dnow3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/amd3dnow3)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/14 "2006-01-26T16:37:55Z")
yea help me out:cry: , i got the motor working fine now,but i dont know how to work the lights, don’t know were to put the wires or the color.
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### Author:  [@double\_j](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/double_j)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/15 "2006-01-26T17:33:17Z")
hook the wires up to your nipples. black to the left, white to the right.
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### Author:  [@The\_Russian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The_Russian)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/16 "2006-01-26T17:52:02Z")
if it tingles off and on its working
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### Author:  [@95AccordVtec](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/95AccordVtec)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/17 "2006-01-26T18:30:55Z")
ok, focus told me to go peek at mine for ya so i did…ok, there were originally a white, black,red set…these were for the power pirror motor to work, so that rules out those wires which you have already connected. there should only be two or three wires left…mine had three. please post what color your remaining wires are so we can straighten this out for you.
EDIT: reading back it seems you hae a black and a white one left. if that is the case the black should be ground, and the white you have to run extra wire down to the headlight under the fender…pull the headlight out, the bulb for the turn signal should have two wires in the connector…one is black, one is green with a colored tracer. the white wire from the mirror goes to the green wire from the signal plug.
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### Author:  [@Xeon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Xeon)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/18 "2006-01-27T00:09:02Z")
m3 mirrors= pain in the ass wiring… m3 mirrors with power adjusters= a bottle of advil…
i like the test each wire technic… it works well… just dont hold the wire there to long 😛
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### Author:  [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/19 "2006-01-27T00:12:34Z")
> [@amd3dnow3](#):
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> yea help me out:cry: , i got the motor working fine now,but i dont know how to work the lights, don’t know were to put the wires or the color.
If the lights use LEDS then polarity matters and there is a positive and negative wire. If the lighting uses incandescent bulbs the polarity does not matter.
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### Author:  [@amd3dnow3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/amd3dnow3)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2006, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-install-side-mirrors-with-light-markers/7204/20 "2006-01-27T09:45:15Z")
yea they are LEDS, well at least its what it says,i only got 2 wires left, black and white,should i go to my head light and trace the power wire down to daash and solder wires there, wondering would that kill my LEDS???another thing, i think they only light blue, is that street legal, i hear all kind of different answers for that, and i have seen alot of cars with blue markers/
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