2001 Chevrolet Tahoe Driver & Passenger Side 2 Piece Power Textured Black Towing Mirror Set Trail Ridge TR00005

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This is a follow-up to our tow mirror upgrade. This is a 2002 GMC truck. On these '99s to '02s, we offer the signal, but you do have to wire it into your truck yourself. I show that in the other video, but with the kit that's going to be in production, there are a couple of little differences. One is that, for the ground wire, the kit will come with an eye to crimp onto that wire, so I show you that. Also, the colors of the wires coming out could be different. In the original video, I run a red wire across the truck, and the production mirrors are probably going to have a different color, possibly a blue wire or a white wire. I just show you how to identify which wire lights which light so that you can wire them correctly.

As a follow-up to our other video, you can see I'm installing the black mirrors on my truck now. These are more the production version. There are going to be a couple of slight differences. First of all, your ground is still going to be the black wire, but in the kit, what now is going to be supplied is a loop to put either around that bolt or around this bolt. What you want to do is run your ground wire up there. Needle-nose pliers will work. They have a little wire-cutting edge. Cut the wire. Then you want to strip about a quarter to a half an inch of the wire off. You can try and cut it just lightly. Then squeeze lightly, and pull it. Twist the wire, and then fold it over itself. What you're going to do is put the wire into the eye. What I do first with my needle-nose is I bend over these crimps. Then I bend the wire ones as well. Now when you put it in there, the wire hits and squeezes nice and flat. When that wire hits the second set of crimps, it's in there nice and firm. Then you just take your needle-nose and squeeze down really hard there. Squeeze down really hard there. Then you've got a pretty good crimp. Now I'm going to remove this bolt. Put it through that eye. Reinstall, and you've got a nice solid ground now

The other things is you always want to make sure that you know which wire is which. Before you cut these, you could test them to see which one lights which light. Obviously, you want to run the one that lights the lower running light you want to run to your switch here. The one that lights the blinker, you want to run into the inside of the car. The easy way to test them is I've just stripped off a little bit of the end. Now, this may feel a little dangerous to you, but it's actually not. You're just going to take the wire, and you're going to touch the back of the lead here into your courtesy light. When I do that, you can see that the blue wire lights the signal light there. I'm just touching it intermittently. The red wire, if I touch that to the back, you can see it lights the running light. For this application, the red wire we want to run to our switch, which is the running light. The blue wire, we want to run inside the truck. I'm not going to redo all that. I just wanted to show you the upgraded eye that comes with this, and that it's a little different because I know in my video, I ran a red wire inside the truck, which I'm just going to splice here because I don't want to rerun the whole wire. I'm going to actually splice the blue wire with the red wire. What you'll actually do is run this blue wire into your vehicle or whatever is appropriate. Then I'm going to run this red wire over to the switch just like I did before.

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Hi. I'm Tony, with 1A Auto, here to talk to you today about the advantages of buying a quality, name-brand part for your vehicle, like this tow-mirror upgrade from Trail Ridge Truck Accessories.

Now, at first glance, this part may look nearly identical to a comparable, generic mirror that we brought to show you, but upon further inspection, the difference is clear between the fit and finish, the quality of the parts, and the attention to detail that really makes this mirror from Trail Ridge Truck Accessories a quality part that lasts.

The generic mirror already has a large scratch going across the face of the mirror, and there's pitting around the edges where the reflective material is already starting to fail. This mirror from Trail Ridge uses a very high-quality reflective material, as well as being a defrosting upper and panoramic mirror, where this one only has a defrosting upper mirror.

The Trail Ridge mirror has a much finer, more uniform finish. Another great benefit to these mirrors is the caps are interchangeable, so you have all this selection, on top of being a quality fit and finish on the largest section of your mirror, which is what the majority of people looking at your truck are going to see.

There’s nice clean metal on the hinge for this mirror. The generic part is already rusting out on the hinge. It's brand new. It's never been exposed to the elements. It's rusting out already.

We have the same color sockets on the generic mirror. The ends have waterproofing in them. Somebody did this very quickly. They also have steel contacts on them. On the Trail Ridge Truck mirrors, the sockets are color coded. We know which one goes where. We have a brass contact that's not going to corrode, and it's going to conduct electricity much more smoothly.

The wiring on the Trail Ridge mirror uses the OEM color coding, so all of these colors and pin-outs are going to match up for the factory wiring colors, as well as the pin locations. This generic mirror used whatever color wiring they had around. The wires in the Trail Ridge mirror are also a much heavier gauge. It also comes with an adapter harness for the earlier model trucks, that weren't as feature packed as the newer ones, which while still using the same bolt-on application, will have a different wire harness connector.

The Trail Ridge truck mirror still has that cool tinted look without being so dark that you're not going to be able to see your turn signals and side markers. The motor on the generic mirror is very loose. I can move this very easily by hand. The Trail Ridge truck mirror has nice smooth movement. It actually takes a little bit of force. These are zero-clearance motors, which means they're a lot more accurate. If you're using your mirror switch and you adjust it, when you let off, that's where it's staying.

We have a higher quality steel here. The ends are nice and secure, where you can see these are all bent up and banged up already.

On top of the physical differences that you've seen here in this comparison, these Trail Ridge truck mirrors also come backed with a 100% satisfaction guarantee, as well as the support of a toll-free call center, and online instructional videos and tips to help you make the best out of every upgrade. So if you want a set of these for your work truck or toy hauler, be sure to check them out. Available exclusively from 1AAuto.com.