I was wondering if anyone here has upgrade their basic on dimmer mirror to the autodimmer homelink button rearview mirror? What would you need to do if you wanted to upgrade it?

 

I have.

Get the homelink mirrror and a generic harness from ebay.

 

off the topic question, can the homelink factory mirror be programed to open up a gate from a private community in which i live in???

 

Yep, mine works - both the gate and the garage!

 

So is the harness the oem one that fits perfectly in the mirror or is it a universal one. Also would you have to run the power supply any where and is there any special wiring to install it?

 

The harness is a universal one that plugs in on the mirror side and just has loose wires on the other. The non-premium cars don't have the harness up there. You can either run +12/Acc/Gnd up to the harness or get them off the lights. I just ran the wires up since I had them over at my glove box for some other stuff, it was faster.

 

Are you talking about running the wires to the door lights by the sunroof controls?

 

I ordered my harness just waiting for it to come in

 

Yes.

 

i got it to work, very simple to program, took no more than 2 minutes....very happy

 

^ your g is base model? or premium?

 

Mine is a base

 

As was mine.

 

mine is premium

 

The only issue is if it is a rolling code remote. If so then someone would have to open up the gate mechanism to program your remote. It is simple but someone who had that acces would have to be willing to help you do it. I never had anyone willing to do so in the gated communities i lived in.