How to replace side mirror retract actuator (at least how I did it) (1 Viewer)

[kcjaz]

@ToyotaTrk did you figure the green plug out? I was cleaning up my shop and found this in a box:

 

[ToyotaTrk]

@ToyotaTrk did you figure the green plug out? I was cleaning up my shop and found this in a box:

Nice - thanks for the follow up. But I have 6 wires on each end... I did try and inset the stripped wires into the female sides, but it was a guess as to which wire went where. On female side I have a red wire with a blue stripe and a green wire with a red stripe. On the male side I do not see those 2 combinations.

Still trying.

 

[kcjaz]

Nice - thanks for the follow up. But I have 6 wires on each end... I did try and inset the stripped wires into the female sides, but it was a guess as to which wire went where. On female side I have a red wire with a blue stripe and a green wire with a red stripe. On the male side I do not see those 2 combinations.

Still trying.

Ahh. Wrong green plug. Sorry.

 

[ToyotaTrk]

No biggie. It may be the right plug for 2013 though. Mines a 2018

 

[sleepycruiser]

Continued:

The actual actuator is the black plastic thing but the kit comes with the metal part too. The kit also comes with a new wiring harness. This is because in order to remove the actuator you have to pull the harness through the hole in the middle of it. To do that, you need to cut the original harness connector off or carefully pull the 19 pins out of it. This is the biggest PITA of the whole thing. I ended up cutting my old connector off because I destroyed several of the wires trying to pull them out of the connector until I figured out how to release the pins from the connector BEFORE pulling the wires.

Old harness connector:

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9. Before you remove the old connector, note which wire goes to what pin location. I took photos and also tagged each wire:

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I called this the “top” of the connector and labeled the left upper pin (pink wire) #1.

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“bottom” of connector

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As I said, I cut mine off the connector, but you can pull the pins out and potentially reuse the old harness. I made a “wire pin map” calling pin #1 the upper left pin location when looking at the connector with the connector locking clip (not the pin lock) up:

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Do you recall how you found all of the functions of each wire? I am looking for the exact same thing but for a 2011 LC200. Thanks.

 

[kcjaz]

Do you recall how you found all of the functions of each wire? I am looking for the exact same thing but for a 2011 LC200. Thanks.

I don’t recall where/how I got the list. I either just found it somewhere or I used the FSM wiring diagrams.