kev dood

WoW, thats not good. Mine are nowhere near that. I just get a bit of bubbling on the edge of some of the spokes. The wheels are dirty at present but if I get round to cleaning them and find the work dig. camera I will post a piccy. I guess yours is the "norm" then for our "quality" wheels?!

Although I am totally new to posting on this site, I know from following various topics that this has been done to death. However, I was wondering if anyone had posted pictures of what the pitting/corrosion on the IS200 wheels looks like? Mine, when dirty end up with clear'ish spots on them, and in a couple of places the paint looks slightly bubbled. Is this what I should be looking for? One garage mentioned that new replacements had run out and they had gone back to fitting refurbs which he didn't reccomend as looked different. Are the refurbs better as they are coated all over? Thanks for any of your help, its amazing how nervous you feel putting one of these things up!!

Its a good job someone knows what they are doing, can't wait to see the real thing. Good luck, though sounds like you won't need it!

I gotta get me a good piccie! :P I would presume that the level for the current sensing would be set high enough to cope with this? I may be harping on about nothing, as it was mentioned somewhere, that it may mimick the switch. In which case all shall be hunky dorey!

I presume it would be a similar setup to the electric windows. i.e. when the window or mirror is in a position where it can not move any further, the motor will draw more current. A current sensing circuit will then sense this and shut down the motor. Thats how I would do it anyway! If they used a timer, then if for some reason, maybe cold/ice, the window/mirror is slow at moving, then it would stop part way! If the sense is the case, then may have to tap into wherever the signal runs from, could be the switch on the door - in which case all you have to do when you get an arm signal is to mimick this at the switch! (he says) I could be wrong however - it has been known on more than one occasion!!

Wow, first post to this site, sorry to say hi in the middle of discussion, but wanted to ask.... ....I take it that the output to the mirror will be linked into the one from the switch? Just wondering as I guess they also use a current sense to know when to stop moving the mirror motors? If its not linked in to this signal then how will your circuit know the mirrors have stopped moving? It sounds like a really useful project anyway. Am gold today too and this is too new for me to cope with - boo hoo