Well I was thinking of getting some ctr side mirrors for my hatch and was wondering if I had to remove my door panels to install?

 

are you trying to wire up the relays or no?

 

No just installing the manual folding no power mirrors.

 

no you dont have it in that case. Just pop off the plastic triangle part above the door panel. Then there are 3 10mm bolts that hold the mirror on.

 

Alright cool. How's the visibility on them?

 

Visibility sucks since it's for a RHD car. I've heard of people making it work, but I prefer LHD mirrors to begin with.

Btw, they're not just from a Type R. They're just overseas mirrors in general. I don't think anyone outside of North America got the elephant ears.

 

Yeah, here in Europe even 1.4:s have the folding mirrors, so there's LHD versions too. Probably wouldn't be too expensive to hunt down a pair from a junkyard and getting them shipped, though that'd probably require a contact from over here.

 

Unfortunately customs and shipping usually aren't super cheap. Plus the parts can be difficult to find. Sometimes it's difficult to become motivated when it's for someone else.

I've shipped items to Europe and had items shipped to me.

I've been getting compliments on my elephant ears lately. Apparently my car pulls them off well.

 

Yeah, that's true. I ordered a front lip from US to Finland, 70 dollars shipping and it'll probably be an additional 50 euros customs, haha. Then again, getting mirrors that are being sold as "CTR mirrors" probably will be pretty expensive as well.

 

does anyone know of any sites that sell lhd ek9 mirrors?

 

no such thing as a lhd ek9. If you are lucky you might be able to find a set of lhd ek4, ek3

 

I could have sworn I posted in here about EK9s being Japanese only and therefore RHD only.

All '96-'00 Civics appear to have the folding style mirrors besides the US and Canada (and possibly Mexico IIRC?). So any country that is LHD should work.

 

JHPUsa has the folding mirrors (non-power) for a pretty disgusting price, 300-something. You could also try asking for example www.akr-performance.nl , they've got spare parts for various European Civics, so maybe they might have a set of OEM mirrors available too.

 

for those looking for a cheap alternative ..http://jdmcarboy.com/ ..power mirrors manual folding