joeelmex
Veteran Member
Ibedgen, that's great thinking. I never imagined on turning on the lights and trace that last cable. I have now pluged in the dimming portion of the mirrors and now, the mirrors don't draw any power when the cars are powered off. I have made the change to both Jetta's and it works for the manual and DSG models. Great thinking and will make the edits on the original post. Do the dimming portion of the mirrors turns on when your turn on the lights. The garage portion is not affected, and you can open your garage door with out the keys.I installed a plain Gentex mirror today on my 2011 Jetta that has no homelink, compass, nor temperature... just a plain dimming mirror. I ended up tapping into the headlight circuit since I wouln't need the mirror to be powered any other time except when dark. The wire I used was from the 4 wire blue plug, the color of the wire looked like a brownish purple. From the 4 wires it was the one on the end that was separated from the rest. Maybe this helps someone.
THANKS Ibedgen!
Changes made to the original post now.
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