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4 hours ago, pewterliftedz said:

So has anyone with a 20' actually installed the mirrors and new door harness'?  I'm curious what worked and what didn't with the new wiring.

 

I'm planning to swap mine this weekend to the tow mirrors & harnesses .

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I just received my tow mirrors I bought on the Black Friday sale. I installed them today and thought I would share the install process and how it went.   My truck is a 2019 LT 5.3, CCSB that

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You're welcome.   So regarding our existing harnesses plugging in, yes they do. Identical plug and play. However the factory harness does not have all the circuits for all the mirror feature

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Ok, here you go. This is extended.

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10 minutes ago, chris84 said:

Do you have the Tech pkg/360 view cameras?

No. Just the standard camper mirrors. My truck is a RST.

Mark 

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19 minutes ago, chris84 said:

 

I'm planning to swap mine this weekend to the tow mirrors & harnesses .

Cool, I'm curious what works without dealer programming 

9 minutes ago, markw8 said:

No. Just the standard camper mirrors. My truck is a RST.

Mark 

I'm actually curious what works without the dealer programming anything.  Thanks though, that's awesome that they work like factory.

Duramax3oh Enthusiast

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This is what my mirror buttons look like on my truck with standard mirrors. Do those with the factory tow mirrors have different buttons to adjust the top/lower mirrors? I do not have power folding or technology package. Just safety package with blind spot monitoring - which I’m ok with losing with tow mirror addition 

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This is what my mirror buttons look like on my truck with standard mirrors. Do those with the factory tow mirrors have different buttons to adjust the top/lower mirrors? I do not have power folding or technology package. Just safety package with blind spot monitoring - which I’m ok with losing with tow mirror addition 
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The buttons look the same, except the large window lock button you have is split in two for me, with the split button on the right being for power folding, and the split button on the left being for window locks.
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Thank you!

 

Also, pewter thanks for bumping this thread. My interest in tow mirror install is just falling in right after yours so it seems I’m following you quite a bit! Thanks ?

 

Also to the OP, that is fantastic step by step information and you’re truck looks great. I love the look/color combo between big black mirror and the silver truck. 

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1 hour ago, Duramax3oh said:

This is what my mirror buttons look like on my truck with standard mirrors. Do those with the factory tow mirrors have different buttons to adjust the top/lower mirrors? I do not have power folding or technology package. Just safety package with blind spot monitoring - which I’m ok with losing with tow mirror addition 

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The lower convex mirror is manual adjust on all the mirrors, only difference is that the fancy mirrors have a power fold button.

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On 9/1/2020 at 7:37 PM, pewterliftedz said:

Cool, I'm curious what works without dealer programming

Any tips, tricks or anything to watch out for when pulling off the door panels?

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Any tips, tricks or anything to watch out for when pulling off the door panels?



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Has anyone attempted to install the chrome towing mirrors on an AT4 that has 360 cameras, blindspot monitoring, power fold, autodim, puddle lamps etc?  I can imagine it's going to require a calibration update, power window switch and possibly harness.

 

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Has anyone attempted to install the chrome towing mirrors on an AT4 that has 360 cameras, blindspot monitoring, power fold, autodim, puddle lamps etc?  I can imagine it's going to require a calibration update, power window switch and possibly harness.
 
TIA

Yes. I put ‘20 AT4 loaded mirrors on my loaded ‘19 AT4. The only things that didn’t work were the parking/turn signals, reverse/cargo light, and I had to move a wire in the harness to get the task lights working again. Tow mirrors don’t have puddle lights. Your camera angles will also be screwed up, but will work. Dealerships won’t recalibrate.
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Can you post up a couple of pictures with those camera angles?
 
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This is the only one I have a the moment. Notice the hourglass in the top left, and the missing parking lines. 360 view is the most messed up, as you can see by the yellow parking lines.

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