Offside mirror lowering when in reverse...

[Veee-dubber]

Excuse the shoddy title I'm not sure how to word this exactly lol...

Anyway, Rolling in my friends e46 beemer tuther day I notice that when you engage the reverse gear the offside mirror drops to show the curb to ease parking (which I'm pretty dangerous at lol)

Im pretty sure some of the higher spec mk5 golf's have this feature aswell, and im wondering if its at all possible to retrofit this to an earlier model?

Anyone actually following my drift here?

Cheers 

 

[stealthwolf]

Depending on the car, you need door controllers + mechanisms + coding. Worked out v expensive but worth speaking to eddie-nl

[bacillus]

Depending on the car, you need door controllers + mechanisms + coding. Worked out v expensive but worth speaking to eddie-nl

An alternative (and in all likelyhood cheaper) if you don't have the necessary hardware already installed and if you have a highline display is to install a polar fis+ advanced. That will give you that function as well as many others.
http://www.polarteam.net/en/65-polar-fis-advanced.html

[nadlad]

that function is merily only good for reversing into a parking bay if ure reversing down a street its impossible to use that mirror and then becomes annoying

[SI-R32]

Depending on the car, you need door controllers + mechanisms + coding. Worked out v expensive but worth speaking to eddie-nl

An alternative (and in all likelyhood cheaper) if you don't have the necessary hardware already installed and if you have a highline display is to install a polar fis+ advanced. That will give you that function as well as many others.
http://www.polarteam.net/en/65-polar-fis-advanced.html

From the disclaimer (below) from them all sounds very hit and miss to me, better to buy the bits you want to do it properly, seen a few sets up for sale over the years for under 375 quid so hardly that expensive

NOTE: Due to construction features of vehicles it cannot be guaranteed that mirror position will be "perfect". On models equipped with this function from factory the mirror incorporate a position sensor, which does not happen with those without park assist mirrors, so the mirror will function in the same way, but can not be guaranteed to position "millimeter perfect".

[StephenED30]

that function is merily only good for reversing into a parking bay if ure reversing down a street its impossible to use that mirror and then becomes annoying

Not actually true as it only dips when the mirror switch is in the left hand position and in reverse. If it’s in reverse and the mirror switch is in any other position the mirror wont dip.  You can also adjust the mirror to a different position and it memorises it when in reverse and L are selected. No reverse selected and normal adjustment of the mirror is restored. Mirror will also return to the normal position when travelling forward and moving over 5mph? Hope that all makes sense.

[Eddie-NL]

Can also be switched On / Off in the highline

[Kalpsn2000]

I love this feature. Has stopped my alloys from getting kerbed when parallel parking...shame I had kerbed them a few times already before I realised I had the feature
 

[driver rider]

Can also be switched On / Off in the highline

What is the option on highline?

[Kalpsn2000]

Can also be switched On / Off in the highline

What is the option on highline?

Should be this:

[driver rider]

Can also be switched On / Off in the highline

What is the option on highline?

Should be this:

I don't have this option on my highline....

[Kalpsn2000]

Can also be switched On / Off in the highline

What is the option on highline?

Should be this:

I don't have this option on my highline....

Surprising as your GTI looks like a high spec. I'm not sure which pack it was part of.

[SI-R32]

From 2007 onward it was with reverse parking sensors or luxury pack 1 or 2 pre 2007 didn't ever have dip

[driver rider]

Can also be switched On / Off in the highline

What is the option on highline?

Should be this:

I don't have this option on my highline....

Surprising as your GTI looks like a high spec. I'm not sure which pack it was part of.

Thanks that would explain why it doesn't work.  My car is an '06 plate.

[TonyZed]

Depending on the car, you need door controllers + mechanisms + coding. Worked out v expensive but worth speaking to eddie-nl

An alternative (and in all likelyhood cheaper) if you don't have the necessary hardware already installed and if you have a highline display is to install a polar fis+ advanced. That will give you that function as well as many others.
http://www.polarteam.net/en/65-polar-fis-advanced.html

Great. Bit of kit. The reverse function works very well on mine.

TonyZ