Visors w/Vanity lights?

Swordfish2Cowboy · Post by **Swordfish2Cowboy** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:37 pm

Alright, so has anyone hooked up the visors with the lights? I'm looking at the wiring diagram, and I've found wires for those and the mirror with the compass and thermometer.

But I still can't find what the light is called that I just bought. Ashtray light, or ashtray courtesy light, or whatever. 04608669AA

Jenni · Post by **Jenni** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:06 am

For the visor you only need ONE wire with 12V! That couldn't be too hard to wire up?
For the ashtray light (

) you only need 2 wires - 12V and gruond. Take it from the radio harness.

Swordfish2Cowboy · Post by **Swordfish2Cowboy** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:19 pm

12V constant? Or should I use something that comes on with the rest of the interior lights or cluster? And why are there three prongs?

Jenni · Post by **Jenni** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:05 am

It depends on your wishes:
If you wanna have the possibility to use the vanity light w/o ignition key: use 12V continous. If you wanna have them off when the engine is off - use 12V "ignition".
(It will have power like the radio...)
Don't forget: You need a plug to disconnect the Visor from the power. I think the easiest and cheapest way is such a plug that you can find in every home depot:

<-- take this isolated for the car side and the other one for the visor to protect against short circuits!!!

For the ashtray light the first choice is useless i think - wire it up to the 12V ignition from the radio harness. Use this:

I have no clue what the 3rd wire is good for. I think you should test it...

In the manual i can only find 2 wires: + and -. Nothing more.

Oh: And in the manual this light is not connected to the ignition, it is connected to the instrument cluster lights (the illumination for the HAVC and switches....) - so it is only lighted when you turn headlights on.

Mat00ES · Post by **Mat00ES** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:30 am

I just remembered about this and took a quick look. Its connected to the defroster switch, or atleas thats what it looks like. I have some pics but, they are on my phone till I get home. Im working 12-9, so should be after that.

Jenni · Post by **Jenni** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:37 am

You could use the wire from the switch illumination, right. Defroster switch is the shortest way.

It is the ORANGE wire for power and the BLACK/ORANGE for ground. (in diagram).

And in the diagram the plug for ashtray light has only 2 plugs!

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:25 pm

Swordfish2Cowboy wrote:Alright, so has anyone hooked up the visors with the lights? I'm looking at the wiring diagram, and I've found wires for those and the mirror with the compass and thermometer.

But I still can't find what the light is called that I just bought. Ashtray light, or ashtray courtesy light, or whatever. 04608669AA

As far as the 3 wires goes, that is for the center mirror with auto-dim. One wire is 12v, one is ground, and the other gets a signal from the reverse light switch to turn off the auto-dim when you are backing up. You can leave that disconnected and the auto-dim will work fine.

Swordfish2Cowboy · Post by **Swordfish2Cowboy** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:08 pm

Oh okay. So where do I find a wire that overrides the autodim?

Jenni · Post by **Jenni** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:39 am

did you read the topic?
we were talking about sun visors.
those things INSIDE the car with the mirror and (maybe) vanity lights.

Congrats for digging a death thread just to write nonsense...

DetergentCandy · Post by **DetergentCandy** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:40 am

HOLY RESURRECTED THREAD BATMAN!

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:42 pm

Post by **occasional demons** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:46 pm

Made a new thread for his post... that was between Sworfish and Jenni...

viewtopic.php?t=58280

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:21 am

Has anyone been able to determine if the wiring for the illuminated visors is already behind the headliner in an SRT? I didn't know if I would just be able to plug and play if I found a set.

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:05 pm

I really doubt that the wiring is there David

Jenni · Post by **Jenni** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:59 am

meeeeh - it is just ONE wire for 12V ignition switched. could not be THAT hard to run a wire from the vanity lights to the sun visors!

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:35 am

^^When someone is trying to just use OEM parts, yeah, it is that hard. But thanks for your help!

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:54 am

Midnight_Rider wrote:^^When someone is trying to just use OEM parts, yeah, it is that hard. But thanks for your help!

lol, easy now! Haha.

All you need is the wiring harness for the mirrors (it'll be the whole piece that goes from the dashboard, up to the roof including the mirror plug). Wish I took a picture of my install... I suck at accomplishing that.

Anyhow, one wire for power and the visors ground themselves out when you screw them into the frame. That's it

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:07 am

^^Oh, I get it. Now to go searching for parts...

Caraudioholic24 · Post by **Caraudioholic24** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:13 am

LOL I've had a set in my for sale thread for a LOL bit... But from what I've seen every 03+ that ive worked on the plug on top of the dash has all the connections you need...power etc...

Also the wire for the temp sensor on the compass/temp mirror is in that plug as well as the wire for door open illumination....

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:54 am

Midnight_Rider wrote:^^Oh, I get it. Now to go searching for parts...

Ya, I'm with you on all that "OEM" looking stuff. Although my rearview is from a Buick Park Avenue... but that's besides the point. I got the assist handles and a non-sunroof headliner, vanity visors (and I even secured them the way the old harness was, so it looks factory)... I got a glove box light, but I can't seem to figure out how to wire it up (all the How-To's have description on the colored wires, but I don't seem to have those wires under the dash). Also got a locking glove box, but I haven't had it keyed yet. lol...

And ya, you should hit up Mike. He's where I got my harness and visors from

srtjesse · Post by **srtjesse** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:31 am

if you have a lighted rear view then you already have the harness for the lighted vanity mirrors. Pull off your sun visors and take a peek and you will see a wire just hanging out. If you pull your top dash cover off you will se kinda by were your drivers side tweeter is a small suare red plug this plug has 4 wires on it 3 constant 12v and one ground this is were your harness conects to. It will run up your drivers A pilar then accross the roof to your visors and rear view i can snap pictures for you guys if you need. H and by the way thane made me a set of lighted vanity mirrors for my b day

iThane · Post by **iThane** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:27 pm

srtjesse wrote:H and by the way thane made me a set of lighted vanity mirrors for my b day

wewt

too bad the damn passenger's light suspender clip broke...

Post by **occasional demons** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:35 pm

iThane wrote: wewt

srtjesse · Post by **srtjesse** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:55 pm

ill figure something out to get it fixed

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:52 pm

srtjesse wrote:if you have a lighted rear view then you already have the harness for the lighted vanity mirrors.

If you have a "map reading light" mirror? That's a big negatron, because I had to get a separate harness. My old harness only had the wires for the mirror, that's it. Unless you're talking about just splicing into that harness, then well... that's something I didn't want to do. Kinda what Gramps is trying to accomplish with this whole ordeal.

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:49 am

Yup, no splicing wires for me, thank you.

iThane · Post by **iThane** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:01 am

My sxt had just a lighted rear view mirror and I had the harness clip already in
my dash. I haven't looked into the blue car yet, but I would assume the same..
I grabbed the connector from the neon I snatched my visors from anyways, just
to be sure

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:08 am

The map light mirror was standard on SXT's. Good to know that the clip is already there- I just need the harness from the clip to the mirror and visors and I'll be good to go.

iThane · Post by **iThane** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:35 am

do et gramps! in just one junk yard i've found 2 sets of the visors.
a 1gn and 2gn. the 2gn had a sun roof though, which made it a pain
to get the stoopid harness out, so i only grabbed the harness out of
the 1gn w/o the sun roof