Is it possible to add heated regular mirrors in place of town mirrors?

[jdmartin]

I don't think I've seen this angle covered here yet.

I have the tow package, which means I have the non-power folding tow mirrors. I've read up on swapping out the mirrors and adding the door module and doing the bcm flash to update the system so everything works.

My question is: what if you don't care about power folding, and only want the regular mirrors so that you can have the heating function work? I have found on frosty mornings that what I really miss from my Titan is the heated mirrors. Of course I want the power adjust to still work, but I couldn't care less if I had power folding.

Would a bcm flash be required if you just swapped mirrors in order to get just the heated feature? If you hit the rear defrost button ( I have the 8.4 screen with buttons below) does that activate the heated mirrors, and is there a live lead to the mIrrors that just doesn't work on the tow mirrors but would work on the regular mirrors? Are there side lights on the regular mirrors and would those work?

Finally, has anyone done this? Thanks all!

 

[jdmartin]

Bueller? Bueller?

 

[Granite2WD]

I don't think I've seen this angle covered here yet.

I have the tow package, which means I have the non-power folding tow mirrors. I've read up on swapping out the mirrors and adding the door module and doing the bcm flash to update the system so everything works.

My question is: what if you don't care about power folding, and only want the regular mirrors so that you can have the heating function work? I have found on frosty mornings that what I really miss from my Titan is the heated mirrors. Of course I want the power adjust to still work, but I couldn't care less if I had power folding.

Would a bcm flash be required if you just swapped mirrors in order to get just the heated feature? If you hit the rear defrost button ( I have the 8.4 screen with buttons below) does that activate the heated mirrors, and is there a live lead to the mIrrors that just doesn't work on the tow mirrors but would work on the regular mirrors? Are there side lights on the regular mirrors and would those work?

Finally, has anyone done this? Thanks all!

I replaced my tow mirrors with regular, heated ones and they do not seem to heat.

 

[jdmartin]

I replaced my tow mirrors with regular, heated ones and they do not seem to heat.

Perfect - that is exactly what I wanted to know. So I may just live with what I have.

 

[derp]

yes it can be done. has been beaten to death down to a parts bill in another thread and even linked out to parts vendors.

 

[Granite2WD]

yes it can be done. has been beaten to death down to a parts bill in another thread and even linked out to parts vendors.

I haven't seen that thread. Can you share the name of the thread or a link?

 

[derp]

I literally just did a search for tow mirror swap and there's a flood of results.

Search results for query: tow mirrors swap

5thgenrams.com

 

[jdmartin]

yes it can be done. has been beaten to death down to a parts bill in another thread and even linked out to parts vendors.

As best as I can figure out the one you are talking about that's been beaten to death with a parts list is the ones where people are trying to get power fold and reflashing the BCM. That's not what I am talking about. All I want to know is if I swap the mirrors is whether the power and heat will work. I don't want to add a new module in the door to get power folding or flash the BCM so that I can work stuff on the screen.

If there is a thread talking about just that, show me. I've done the same "tow mirror swap" thread search and read them and I don't see it.

 

[derp]

As best as I can figure out the one you are talking about that's been beaten to death with a parts list is the ones where people are trying to get power fold and reflashing the BCM. That's not what I am talking about. All I want to know is if I swap the mirrors is whether the power and heat will work. I don't want to add a new module in the door to get power folding or flash the BCM so that I can work stuff on the screen.

If there is a thread talking about just that, show me. I've done the same "tow mirror swap" thread search and read them and I don't see it.

Reading through the ones where they didn't do the module and swap, they all lost heated mirrors. all swap with no module threads = no heated mirror. I'm just putting together the pieces from that.

 

[wahudiditagain]

That's correct. It will need a module to make it work.

 

[buffalobill]

i have heated tow mirrors . i think that is what he is looking for

 

[jdmartin]

Reading through the ones where they didn't do the module and swap, they all lost heated mirrors. all swap with no module threads = no heated mirror. I'm just putting together the pieces from that.

That's helpful and it mirrors (pun intended ) what the guy above said; it doesn't sound like there's much value to me unless I just want smaller mirrors.

 

[derp]

i have heated tow mirrors . i think that is what he is looking for

heated tow mirrors is where he is now. He has been seeking sport mirrors with heat and no power fold on the cheap (as in not having to cash up for the mirror controller module that does fold which he doesn't want).

best of luck, you can probably get there with a little bit of work with bridging the old mirror heat element circuit with the new mirror's ones. that is well beyond me as I haven't taken either one to bits myself.

 

[jdmartin]

heated tow mirrors is where he is now. He has been seeking sport mirrors with heat and no power fold on the cheap (as in not having to cash up for the mirror controller module that does fold which he doesn't want).

best of luck, you can probably get there with a little bit of work with bridging the old mirror heat element circuit with the new mirror's ones. that is well beyond me as I haven't taken either one to bits myself.

Actually, unheated tow mirrors is where I am now. There's no heat symbol on my mirrors and nothing melts when I hit the rear window defrost. Heated mirrors is the only thing I *do* want, which is why I thought about swapping. If I could swap heated tow mirrors onto mine I'd be ok with that too.

 

[SS2112]

Actually, unheated tow mirrors is where I am now. There's no heat symbol on my mirrors and nothing melts when I hit the rear window defrost. Heated mirrors is the only thing I *do* want, which is why I thought about swapping. If I could swap heated tow mirrors onto mine I'd be ok with that too.

Check out the thread below. Mike_CT spliced into the rear defrost wire to make his heated mirrors work, without a door module.
Towing Mirror swap - 4th gen mirrors onto 5th gen

 

[jdmartin]

Check out the thread below. Mike_CT spliced into the rear defrost wire to make his heated mirrors work, without a door module.
Towing Mirror swap - 4th gen mirrors onto 5th gen

Excellent, that's what I am looking for - but the link doesn't work...

 

[SS2112]

Excellent, that's what I am looking for - but the link doesn't work...

Copy that title into the search bar up at the top of this page and once the next page loads up, scroll down until you see that title. Then click on it.

 

[Rod19]

I replaced my tow mirrors with regular, heated ones and they do not seem to heat.

I am looking to do the same, but I think you would need to “add” a button where the “tow/haul and traction control” buttons are.

 

[Granite2WD]

I am looking to do the same, but I think you would need to “add” a button where the “tow/haul and traction control” buttons are.

Interesting. I assumed the heat was automatic.

 

[RebelWraith]

Interesting. I assumed the heat was automatic.

It is. When the rear window defrost is activated the mirror heat is as well.
To get heated mirrors to work in a truck that did not come with heated mirrors originally you need, heated mirror glass and wiring, door modules, and AlfaOBD programming.