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[Robert Forrester]

Hi all, can anyone help for my 1981 lagonda, does anyone know the correct wire colours to positions of the mirror control switches as i am just starting to put the door cards back on my car,

Thanks a lot for your help
Robert

[david]

I'm just putting the switches back into 13501 so if your wiring colours are the same, here goes;

If you look at the back of the switch you have six connections.

Luckily on the back of one of these is still the colour code label and that does relate to the wiring on this car from the siwtch to drivers door mirror.

If you position the switch in the horizontal plane, you will have an upper pair of contacts and a lower pair of contacts and one contact perpendicular to these at each end.

With the switch held vertically upside down, the contacts will point towards you at about 45 degrees.

In this orientation:

Left single connector is red

Upper row left is yellow/green

Upper row right is white

Lower row left is green

Lower row right is white/red

Right vertical is purple/black.

The red is the ground and the purple/black the live.

There is one red and purple/black wire going to the respective contact on one switch and a wire siamesed from this contact to the other switch.

However, as this is a Lagonda(!) the wires coming from the door harness are different colours:

There are five wires from the door harness;

The purple is the power supply (replaces purple/black) and the remaining four wires, Yellow, White, Blue and Black are the four wires to the passenger mirror.

On 13501, these wires are as such on the passenger mirror switch:

Left single is Blue

Upper left is yellow

Upper right is white

Lower left is blue

Lower right is black

Right vertical is red

Whilst I will apologise, please don't blame me if smoke is produced............!

David

[jonc]

This is the only photo I have (from 13277):



Jonathan

[Robert Forrester]

[david]

The switches Jonathon has posted a picture of are different to those on 13501, so, another part to find out when it was changed over.

[jonc]

Found it. There are three different switches. Revised in mid 1985 and again in 1986:

13438 on - door mirror switch revised, loom connections revised from 6x lucar connectors to single 6-way harness plug (male connectors).

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??? (1986) on - door mirror switch revised, loom connections revised to 6-way harness plug (female connectors).