Re: E34 retro heated mirrors

[John E. Yurkon <yurkon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@domain.elided> wrote:

>...
>The quickest way to find out if your car is wired for heated mirrors is to 
>The outside inch of the mirror has an even wider angle portion, that'll let 
>you spot things two lanes over.
>
>Part number for the heated version of this mirror is:
>
>56 16 8 119 724
>...

Thanks!  I've installed them on my '97 328is and they work great.
The part number was 51... though.

I know that I've never had heated mirrors on the car, so I was surprized
to find connectors on the mirror with the leads attached.  I measured
both mirrors and got 4.5Kohms.  All I can guess is that they do this
so the computer won't report a problem with the mirrors.  But, if they
go to that trouble why not just use heated mirrors in the first place?

    John

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