No choice to be made here. The Integra's wiring harness isn't populated on the pin that goes to the wire for Homelink power. So you're splicing into the power for the auto-dimming and living with the way the car decides to energize that component.
Therefore, switched with igniton only.
No, I'm not in my driveway.
I'm opening that sucker 200ft down the road because I don't want to sit and wait in my driveway for the door to open.
It also works immediately when the ignition switches on, so when leaving the garage I don't have to wait for the infotainment to boot up and connect...
I am generally turning against traffic to get into my driveway, and keeping an eye out for cyclists, kids, pets, etc.
Fumbling around with the infotainment every single time I do that is the absolute last thing I want to be doing, I can hit the Homelink button without even looking at it.
Aside from the stem and harness, there's exactly zero difference between the frameless mirror that came in my Integra and the Accord frameless mirror with Homelink, other than the Homelink buttons.
They're absolutely identical.
Homelink being off when the car is off also isn't unique to the...
I actually have a video I'm working on for this.
The gist is: you disassemble your Integra mirror and your 08V03-3A0-100 Accord mirror and reassemble using:
Integra stem (matches rake of windshield + required length)
Modified Integra harness that passes through stem (connector inside mirrors...
Hard to overstate how much work goes into a project like this. The frustration is real.
I pioneered a lot of the "open sourcing" of info around Sync 3 swaps and DSP integration in S550 Mustangs (with help from numerous others) back when a certain other people had decided to try and profit off...
There's a ton of info in this thread: https://www.integraforums.com/forum/threads/which-acuity-parts-needed-to-just-remove-lateral-slop-on-shifter.57332/
I have personally done:
Acuity 4-Way adjustable shifter (1981-LHD)...
The manual in these cars, despite getting glazed by auto-journos who just endlessly repeat each other, is not that great out of the box. It's okay, but far from extraordinary.
There's a lot you can do to improve it.
Got this done today. The Acuity bushings aren't a crazy difference when you already have the full 4-way Acuity shifter, but they do make some difference and they aren't awful to install.
The Redline MTL made quite a difference. I am going to reserve full judgement until the car gets cold...
And somebody that planned the production schedule such that parts aren't piling up is getting a faaaaaat bonus.
It's intentional and it's incentivized.
I still don't find this acceptable.
Who is trying to get a fender for these cars just to... have on hand and not use? Like if you need a fender, it's going to be a high 90th percentile chance that you're replacing a damaged one.
Acura/Honda shouldn't play games with parts like this. It's...
This is literally every modern car and I hate it.
Thanks to the miracle of just in time manufacturing, the incentives that are put in place are for parts to arrive at the factory "just in time" to be assembled on a car.
And when one of us idiot consumers dares to damage a part, well it just...