hey everybody my name is Justin welcome back to the BTR garage today we have
another upgrade for my 2002 Ford F250 we're gonna be replacing the OEM mirrors
on the truck with some aftermarket telescoping tow mirrors that are a lot
bigger and have some more features as well let's go ahead and take a look at what we've got
so the mirrors that I picked up are from YITAMOTOR that's Y-I-T-A-Motor
Yitamotor it is a towing mirror of course an aftermarket mirror
to replace your OEM units on 1999 to 2007 I believe Ford F250's, 350's, 450's
and I think '01 through '05 excursions Ford excursions I'll put the
links down in the description to these specific mirrors the kit that I got but
it comes with pretty much everything you need obviously the giant mirror itself
I'll hold these up to the OEM size mirror here in just a second they are
heated mirrors they have integrated turn signals and parking signals in them or
parking lights in them and then of course they are telescoping not sure if
I can get them all the way telescopes when they're not attached to the truck
but they do telescope quite a bit and of course back in and then they come with
the appropriate harness for your vehicle my older truck I think is gonna have
this round plug in it whereas the mirror itself has the newer rectangular plug
here and then of course the nuts to attach it to the truck let's go ahead
and take a look at this thing next to the OEM mirror so the OEM mirror on the
F250 is not too bad but it does kind of have the rounded edges and then the
convex mirror on the bottom which you really need when you're trailering and
towing race car trailers for example in my case these things come in really
handy in the one on here is very very small if you take a look at the one on
the heater motor mirrors it is huge I mean it's 4 inches by 6 inches or
so in size so quite a bit bigger than the one on the OEM mirror and the OEM
ones do telescope as well see if I can get this out again
that looks like about it so it's got slightly more telescoping maybe another
two inches of extra telescoping room on the mirror itself so a much better
viewing angle with the Eaton motor aftermarket towing mirror all right to
get these things installed on the truck we're gonna have to do a little bit of
work changing out the mirror itself is not too difficult it's only four nuts on
the back of the mirror on the inside of the mirror I should say that attached to
the door the hard part is gonna be figuring out the wiring because my 2002
F250 it's an XLT model it doesn't have heated mirror wiring or turn signal
wiring by default those OEM mirrors all they are is power mirrors and we're
gonna have to tap into turn signal wiring and some other wires as well in
order to get the signal functionality on the light bulbs on the outside of the
mirror as well as the heat so to get started we're gonna go ahead and take
things apart so we're gonna open up the door get the door panel itself off get
the old mirror off and start digging around in the wiring figure out what we
need to connect to and tap into in order to get these new features working on the
Yitamotor tow mirrors so getting the door panel off on these trucks is pretty
simple you only need a couple of tools you'll want a 7 millimeter socket
for the two screws that are in here or two bolts that are in here a flathead
screwdriver or something similar this is a body panel tool and basically we just
need to take off the power window cluster right here you can use your
screwdriver or the plastic tool stick it in the front just kind of pry up a
little bit and then slide it forward make sure your windows are already down
you can go ahead and remove all of the plugs from the power window switches go
ahead and set that unit aside grab your flat-head screwdriver we're gonna go
down to the little light on the bottom and there's a little crack in it you
just stick your screwdriver in there pry it back pull that piece off set it aside
you also want to grab this top piece above the door little black section it
just pulls off with your fingers
snaps out like that set it aside now to get the door panel off there is two
bolts the little seven millimeter bolt up here another one down here by the
light go ahead and take those off now what you can do is go ahead and just
kind of pull up and pull away on your door to get it to come off of the door
itself really just takes a little bit of a pull upwards and then it'll come away
you want to be careful of the light bulb that is still attached down on the
bottom you can reach behind twist the light bulb counterclockwise and pull it
out and then just make sure you're not snagged on anything else like I was
that's pretty much it door panel is out I'm also going to go ahead and pull this
light bulb out of here so that it's not on constantly you just pull it right out
it will be hot ouch another thing I recommend doing to
make this job a little bit easier is removing the door speaker that way you
can get in behind the door to fish the wiring around I've already removed a few
of the bolts this is a five and a half or five point five millimeter bolts in
here it is smaller than the ones and the doors wouldn't pull your speaker out and
then it's just a regular old pinch clip on the bottom of the speaker set that
aside and then to get to the wiring harness for the mirror we're gonna want
to disconnect that first you got to pull away some of the protective layer here
and as you can see the wire harness for the mirrors right here
zoomed in a little bit closer another pinch clip give it a pension and a
wiggle and then that comes out so that's our harness for the OEM mirror now to
actually get the mirror off of the truck we want to remove this other little
protective cover or plastic liner you don't necessarily need to remove it but
peel it up on both sides to expose the 10 millimeter nuts that are in there
then you also want to remove the four or I'm sorry the two grommets towards the
right side when we're doing the driver side mirror once you have those off
you can see the bolts will give you a closer look here there's our top two
bolts and then the bottom two bolts when you remove these you want to be careful
that you'll lose the bolts into the door panel not a big deal if you need to fish
them out you can go through the speaker hole and then again here's our harness
for the mirror itself so we're gonna go ahead and start taking the mirror off
this part of the process it does help to have a little helper on the other side
to grab the mirror so it doesn't go falling off onto the ground otherwise
you're gonna have to figure out how to do one hand holding the mirror in one
hand undoing the nuts on the inside of the truck here so I'm going to start on
the lower side and actually I needed an 11 millimeter socket for the OEM bolts
on my 2002 truck I think that 10 millimeter nuts are for the replacement
mirrors and you want to be careful again when you're doing this that you don't
let it fall into the door and it's kind of tricky on this one anyways in the
bottom using a screwdriver to hold it into place so we got that one out
alright alright and the last bolt obviously is the one where she'll be now
you want to make sure you're holding it is it coming loose what okay got it okay
easy we'll fix the harness out through the back hopefully there we go perfect
alright now that we have both mirrors off of the car again we'll take a look
at the OEM versus the new unit motor mirror
Yuda motors are pretty enormous compared to the OEM mirrors and we'll take a look
at the bases here or the mounting bases you'll notice on the new mirror it has
these rubber grommets over the bolts you can pop those off and then it's ready to
mount what I'm gonna do though is actually take back some of the sleeve on
this wiring harness so I can access some of the wires in there and what we have
to figure out is which wires in the truck are going to activate the signals
and the heat as well now my favorite part is getting ready to wire everything
up so the power mere the mere motor that actually moves the mirror is all part of
the OEM wire harness and will attach to the appropriate pins on the new Mears
harness and actually I noticed on my truck I have the new style harness it
didn't have this round one like I had thought that I showed earlier so it does
have the correct rectangular type of plug on the truck door so that makes
things a little bit easier so what I did as you can see I pulled back some of the
sleeve here on the wire loom and what we need to do is splice into a few of these
wires and attach those to the appropriate wire on the truck itself so
I got the wiring schematic from Edom motor they basically send you this
little paper and a note with the various colors of wires and what they do
so those wires are all in the harness here so the blue wire is actually the
side marker or the running lights so it's the lower light on the back of the
mirror here which would be that one your black wire of course is your ground the
gray wire in here activates the heat on the meter the red wire on here activates
the turn signal and then the orange white yellow again is for that window
mirror motor sorry the mirror motor not the window mirror motor so those are all
included in the OEM harness so we don't have to worry about those what we're
gonna do is splice into the blue wire we're gonna splice into the gray wire
and we're gonna splice into the red wire in here using common little plastic
splices that you can get at a hardware or electronics store and then what we
have to do is run the spliced wire we'll have to find some extra wire I've got in
the garage here and we got to run those through the door into the cabin of the
truck and I'll show you where all of the wiring is underneath the fuse box and
then on the f250 the wires you need to tap into for the truck itself so
left-hand turn signal or driver side turn signal is a green wire with a white
stripe the right-hand turn signal is a white wire with a blue stripe for the
running light or the parking light you can use any Brown wire in the truck and
that will go to the blue wire on this harness and
then the heater wire we're gonna have to figure out what we want to run that off
of you can use any power source in the truck I don't know if we'll do it on the
key on ignition wire and that way the heated mirrors are on all the time or
what I want to do is tap into that power source and then put a switch or a relay
on there that I can mount somewhere in the truck that way I have an on/off
switch for the heated mirrors but for now what we're gonna do is get the
mirrors mounted back in the truck and then at least try to get the signal
working and go from there so back in the truck we're gonna start by taking the
front panel off below here and these are just little push-button twisties that
push off press them in rather and then twist them counterclockwise to get them
off then the panel just drops right down put that aside now what we'll do and
I'll try to get the camera in here for a better view but you basically expose all
of the wires underneath here and you just have to go digging through to find
the right wire so what we're gonna look for is that green wire with the white
stripe that should be our left-hand turn signal and then we'll know which one to
splice into on the inside and which one that goes to on the mirror itself the
other thing we got to do is pop the boot out in the door here because that's
where we're gonna run the wires through so now most of the wiring is exposed as
you can see I unhooked the fuse box as well and it's just kind of hanging down
here there's four bolts that screw it in on the top two on the top two on the
bottom the other ones down here and you can kind of pull that aside to get a
better view of what's going on here but as you can see up in the top section we
have exposed the wire loom so this guy up in here you can see we've got our
green wire with our white stripe that's our left turn signal and then our
white wire with the blue stripe being our right-hand turn signal
now the brown wire for the running lights can be found back here pry off
your headlights which just pops out like that you'll notice we have the brown
wire down here which was already tapped into for something I'm not quite sure
for some reason my truck has an extra bundle of wires down there I'm not sure
what it was for but anyways your brown wire before the running light is in this
clip here that's what you'll use to power the running lights on the mirrors
so with those wires identified I can now go ahead and grab some extra wire that I
have to start running it through the door into where the wire harness is for
the mirror behind me here and then run it into the cabin and once we get
everything a run properly we'll splice into those wires and then splice into
the harness on the mirror side now for my wiring I have an assortment of
different colored wires what I'm gonna do is match the new wiring the best I
can to the wiring on the mirror harness itself so if you remember we had blue
wire on the mirror harness that's this here or this one here so the blue wire
is for the side markers or the running lights we're gonna use the blue wire for
that the black of course is the ground I'm gonna use the white for the heat
even though the heat is the gray wire on here I couldn't find any gray wire and
then the red I'm gonna use for the turn signal wiring which is the red wire on
the mirror harness now it doesn't matter what color wiring you can use you could
use whatever you want having some sort of color coding just helps out a little
bit now if you remember for our turn signal wiring the red wire from the
mirror harness is going to go to the green with the white stripe for the
driver side and then the white with the blue stripe for the passenger side so
we'll get lengths of wire to run those or the running lights it's gonna go to
the brown wire which is on the light switch headlight switch and again that's
is gonna go to the blue wire on the harness and here's my new little wire
harness very simple has the red white and blue wires the red wire of course is
going to go to the green with white stripe why
on the driver's side for the turn signal the blue wire again for the running
lights or the parking lights and then the white wire will eventually go to a
power wire for the heat in the mirrors then you'll want a tool like this a
flexible rod tool or something that you can use to fish the wiring through the
door panel and the door boots between the door and the console of the truck
we're gonna go ahead and start fishing the wires through right now and see how
that goes now the visual for this is gonna be very
bad because it's impossible to see what you're doing up in here but if you stick
your hand and finger through the door jamb where the boot is you can reach
into the inside of the truck and see where it's gonna be coming through where
your wiring needs to go so I'm gonna try to get the wiring fished through there
now the wire is through the door jamb I have my tool through the boot on the
door side and clamped on to the wire loom that I fished through there now
hopefully the goal is that we can pull that loom through into the door you'll
see it works help it through from the inside
sweep work perfect actually got a little lucky so there's our wiring on the door
side now so what we can do is use this wiring to splice into the mirror harness
we'll mount up the mirror harness and then we can start getting everything
hooked up so putting the new mirror back on this is again where you'll want to
have a helper you hold this side please show me and you want to take you got it
it's a little heavy got it you need to fish your wiring harness
back through the hole where the original one came out kind of slide that down
towards the speaker hole okay and bring this up align your bolt holes
okay so we got that there all of our bolts are through I did put thread lock
on the bolts and I'm reusing the nuts that came off of the OEM mirrors I think
you can hold that up like that show got it
we'll start threading these back on here hopefully so with the nuts all tightened
down and snug in place the mirror is solid and the fitment is pretty good I
think on the upper side of the mirror here on the top of the triangle it's a
little bit off of the window body but it shouldn't be a big deal and when you're
tightening down the nuts on the back of this thing you do have to kind of wiggle
the mirror to get everything to kind of fall into place you'll kind of hear
things clunk into place as you're tightening them down but tighten them up
good and snug and then we can move on to actually wiring this thing up so here's
where my wire harness from the mirror the new mirror comes up into the door
and connects to the OEM harness right here and instead of splicing into the
wires up here I decided I'm gonna go down into the door hole behind the
speaker I'm gonna cut a little bit of the shroud off right here and then
splice our wires from the inside of the truck into here and then tape things up
with electrical tape and then I think we should be good to go and then splice
these wires in on the inside under the dash so the wiring is all spliced in to
the mirror the wiring that goes to the inside of the car so you can see we have
all of the spliced wires on the red white blue and then the black ground
wire I actually soldered together we're gonna take this black ground wire and
just drill it or screw it into the door panel probably up here or something like
this but now the next step is to tape all of that up with electrical tape grab
our harness fish it back through the door and we'll be done with the door
side so taking a look at the completed door side you have our harness clip back
in there here's our ground wire and I actually drilled a little hole scuff the
way the paint so we have raw metal put a wired terminal on the end for the
ground and I'm actually gonna leave this stuff down here untaped at the moment
until we tap into the wires under the console as you can see I pulled the fuse
box back and we need to get two of the wires of the blue and the red those are
gonna go way up into here lice into the signal wires and the other wires that we
need to get this thing up in functioning all right so we are all wired up on the
driver's side so we can get you a good view of the splice up here you can see
there red splice with the red wire into the green wire with a white stripe and
then for the running lights we put our blue wire from the mirror splice that
into the brown wire up here on the switch for the lights there's actually
another splice in there but ours is the red splice with the blue wire now we got
the basic wiring hooked up there's only one thing left to do and that is to test
it out so let's take a look alright here we go let's plug the ignition back in
alright go ahead and test out the parking lights I'm looking in my
viewfinder on the camera it looks like it's on very good at work how about the
blinker and we have a blinker awesome so everything worked during that parking
light back off so that's off so during the daytime this is what your blinkers
gonna look like at the night time when you have your lights on or the parking
lights on or your running light you've got that lower light on there all the
time and I plugged my power mirror switch back in let's make sure the
mirrors work they do work they're actually moving side-to-side
and up and down so great success everything worked we got the wires right
so that is a plus now we got to figure out that heater wire now for providing
power to the heated mirrors there are a few things to do and this can become a
little bit tricky depending on your truck my Ford f250 fortunately has an
easy way to do it but basically what you want to do is find a switch 12-volt
power source or I think they call it a hot on run power source basically when
you turn the ignition to the on position or you're in the running mode of the
truck that particular wire has power going to it so what you can do is either
find a switch 12 volt power source splice into it run a wire direct to your
heated mirrors wire in my truck it was that white wire that I ran through the
inside it was the gray wire on the mirror harness and then what that will
do was power the heated mirrors all the time I think that's the way Ford does it
from the factory when you have factory installed heated mirrors don't quote me
on that that's just what I've read in some other research on the internet but
what I did and what I'm gonna do in my truck I want to actually have it on a
switch and on-off switch where I can toggle the heat on the mirrors when it
is needed because I don't really use the heated mirrors or needed all that much
here in Denver Colorado because we just don't get iced over mirrors all that
much so what I did is I grabbed a schematic of the fuse box and all of the
various fuses in there and I have one in my truck
it is fuse F 229 which is a 10 amp fuse that says customer access so this is a
fuse you can use to power anything you want in your truck whatever it might be
in my case we're gonna use it to power the heated mirrors and I'll show you how
to test that fuse to make sure it's a switched 12-volt power source in a
second with a test light and then what I got is this little deal here it's kind
of a fuse adapter this plugs in to the fuse box it has an additional fuse
position on it and a wire which will actually run for the power source for
the heated mirrors and then I have this little switch and they give you a
close-up view of this so you have a better idea so here's the little mini
add a fuse device so basically this fuse plug right here plugs into my
number 29 10 amp fuse slot obviously I have to take out the 10 amp fuse that's
in there then what you do is place that 10 amp fuse on the closed side or the
left side in this case in the picture and then that will power anything that
might be on the truck side of it now to power our heated mirrors we're gonna use
a 5 amp fuse these mirrors I think roughly take one-and-a-half amps of
power so we have a 5 amp fuse that we put in there and then this wire will go
to the power wire on my switch now this is my little switch that I have this
switch is good for up to 30 amps as you can see as an on/off toggle a little red
light that will light up which we'll show you in a bit
and then on the bottom the way you wire this thing the earth is your ground
so that's the top prong the middle is your load that's going to be the mirrors
so I'm gonna hook up my white wire to that and then the bottom is our supply
that's going to be the supply wire that comes off of the little fuse adapter
down here so we're gonna wire that up accordingly I'll show you how to test
out the fuse here in a second so back in the truck we've identified where my fuse
number 29 is which is right up in here obviously you can't see it the camera
angle is hard but if you have the direct diagram it's easy to find out so we have
our test lights this is what we're gonna use to test if there's power going
through that fuse basically ground the test light to an existing ground in the
truck we'll go ahead and put it on that fuse there's little metal pins at the
top of the fuse that you can stick the test light into as you can see the test
light is not lighting up which means there's no power to it so we'll grab our
key turn the ignition to on
so our ignition is on we'll stick the test light back on the same fuse and
you'll notice it is now lighting up so that tells us that we have switched
12-volt power to that fuse and that's the one we can use our little fuse
adapter on this guy here if you remember we just looked at it so what we'll do is
take the 10 amp fuse out of fuse slot 29 replace it with this and then put those
fuses back in there once we have that in there we'll actually run a power wire
which is this wire here now into the power supply on the switch I'll probably
mount the switch up on the dash here somewhere just drill a little hole and
then mount the switch in there and then finish up the wiring so we're gonna go
ahead and get that started and then show you how everything looks
when we get that together and then finally get the other side near on as
well so the wiring is all connected and run for the most part I have the little
fuse block piece up in there which is that guy there the red power wire
actually runs through this hole up here in my - my truck being an XLT it did not
have any kind of function switch right here I know other trucks with higher
trims have a button for something there I'm not exactly sure what but I was
actually able to take that out drill a hole in it and make my little switch
part of that hole so now I actually have a switch that fits in there switch
itself almost fit in the hole but not quite so I had to modify the plug that
was there to get the switch to fit now you can see I have all the wires hanging
out of the hole we'll plug those up to the switch in a second and test it the
white wire is going to my only mirror that's plugged in just with a temporary
connection this is my driver's side near heat wire and then of course we have the
ground which I grounded to a existing ground inside the truck which is just
right up in there so what we'll do is hook up my switch to the proper prongs
stick it in there and then test it out
all right so we'll test this thing out obviously if I flick my little switch
here with the key off or the truck off nothing is gonna happen the little light
on the switch is not coming on and the mirrors are cool to the touch so switch
this off go ahead and turn the truck ignition on turn my switch on my little
red light came on so that's good and you're kind of gonna have to take my
word for it there's no indicator on the mirror that shows if the heat is on or
not so check it here in just a second and see if it's getting warm
which it's already getting warm I can feel it yeah so that's definitely
getting warm I can feel it on the back of my hand and I'll let it sit here for
a couple minutes to see how hot it gets but it's actually warm to the touch and
it seems to be getting warmer by the second so yes
two thumbs up the heated mirrors work we have the little switch may take the
camera off and I'll show you the switch
so there's our little switch turn that off so you can see it a little bit
better got that mounted right above the trailer
brake controller and you'll see if we switch it off the light goes out so
that's an easy indicator to tell if your heated mirrors are on or not and came
out pretty good all right so pretty happy with how that came out now that
that part is done we can go ahead and start working on the passenger side
mirror all of the wiring is complete for the most part other than tapping into
the right-hand turn signal or the passenger side turn signal that's the
only other wire we have to splice into the heat wire is there and the harness
takes care of the rest of the wires and then we have the ground of course on the
passenger side but we're gonna go ahead and put that on a time-lapse everything
on the passenger side goes just the same as the driver's side door for the most
part nothing special there we'll go ahead and get that off and then
hopefully have the final product for you to show all
right now the passenger mirror is installed everything went pretty smooth
you saw in the time-lapse that we had to take the glove compartment out it's just
three little screws on the underside of the glove compartment and it pops right
out and then of course we had to run our extra wire harness the red white and
blue wires for my truck that go from the inside out through the door and then
from there we run it to underneath the dash on the inside of the car kind of
just figure out what's gonna be best for your particular vehicle where you want
to run it and then we tied everything back into the dash where we needed to
now the wires from the passenger side they came in up here pretty easily and
then I just ran them across connected the blue to my blue wire that we ran
earlier that went to the brown wire for the parking light or the running light
the red wire of course is the signal from my Mir side that went up into the
trucks wire harness and that one goes on the white wire with a light blue stripe
so again the passenger side blinker is the white wire with the light blue
stripe and then we just ran that one to our red wire which goes to the blinker
on the mirror that worked okay and then the heat is our white wire I tied all of
those together back in here to my switch which is over there so the two white
wires from each side one from the passenger one from the driver came
together into the white wire for the switch or the power wire for the switch
and then of course our red wire down here
which I haven't tucked the fuse box back in just yet we'll do that in a second so
we're gonna go ahead and get that back together and then we should have
everything all done
all right everybody we're gonna wrap it up that does it for the Edom motor tamir
installation on my 2002 ford f250 everything went pretty simple the
hardest part is finding out which wires in your truck do what if your truck
wasn't wired for heat or running lights or turn signals like my truck finding
those wires that you need to tap into to activate those features is the most
difficult part actually tapping into the wires running the wires doing the
installation is the easy part so now I've got bigger tamir's I have
features that I did not have on my stock mirrors got the turn signals got the
running lights got the heated mirrors and of course the power mirrors which
the OEM ones did have but a big upgrade much bigger mirrors and really looking
forward to towing with these particular mirrors on the truck so if you guys have
any thoughts comments or questions on these mirrors please leave them down
below in the comments I would love to hear from you if you have any
suggestions or tips as well for other people that are looking at this
modification let me know we'll put them in the comments down below and hopefully
that will help out other people as well so thanks again everybody for watching I
hope you enjoyed the video that's gonna do it for me stay fast out there I'm
checking out we'll talk to you all next time
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