From working in a shop, almost every power mirror failure was the wiring
breaking.  The most common break was actually just inside the vanagon and
not at the door itself.  Out of about a dozen jobs on mirrors I never
replaced a mirror or motor.  Only one switch. all had broken wires. Even
though one had a bad switch it also had a broken wire.
jimt

On 6/1/05 10:45 PM, "Paul Guzyk" <paullist@GUZYK.COM> wrote:

> My mirror problem is solved.
>
> First the wires were all broken between the drivers door and the
> dash.  I replaced them.  I tested the passenger door wires to the
> connector behind the glovebox...luckily they were all good.
>
> I thought it was the switch, even tried a couple of different switches.
>
> It turns out the brown (ground) wire going to the SWITCH connector
> was not making contact with the switch.  A few jiggles in the
> connector contacts with a pointing tool fixed it.  I guess the brown
> wire is used for the mirror motors, but not the clutch since my
> mirror clutches worked.
>
> Thanks to Marco from The BusLab for helping troubleshoot and repair it...
>
> -Paul
>
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> The "click" in both mirrors is the clutch that switches the single motor in
>> each mirror into "up-down" mode instead of "right-left" mode.
>>
>> If neither mirror moves, I'd expect it *not* to be the motors... more
>> likely the switch, or a wiring problem.
>
>