M3 Style Mirrors For Honda Prelude

Installing M3 Style Mirrors is one of those neat projects that can really add some spice to the look of your Honda without taking up too much of your time. The total install time for a pair of M3 style mirrors should be less than two hours.

The Honda Prelude's was a sports coupe produced by Japanese automaker Honda from 1978 until 2001. The two-door coupe spanned five generations and was discontinued upon the release of the fourth-generation Honda Integra (Acura RSX in North America) in late 2001, due to its decreasing sales and popularity.  Many modifications can be done to the Honda Prelude to make it look sportier and perform better.

Aftermarket mirrors are available in different materials, including FRP plastic, carbon fiber and fiberglass. Plenty of different styles are available such as D1 style, F1 style and M3 styles. You can also get them in manual or electric, and get them with or without LED turn signals built in.

The toughest part of the job is actually finding a set of mirrors that will match your body color. If your Honda is white or black, there are usually after market mirrors available in those two colors. Any other color will need to be custom-painted to match your body paint.

Some after market mirrors are manufactured with an additional lamp in the side. This can be wired to either to your parking lamps or your turn-signal lamps. Either one requires additional wiring to be threaded through the door, so I usually don't recommend this approach. Most of the cars I've seen with lamps in the side of the mirrors don't actually have them connected—they're just for show.

The Prelude's perennial competitor has been the Toyota Celica, another straight-4-powered coupe introduced several years prior to the Preludes. Throughout the 1980s, the Preludes was challenged by the Honda Accord, Nissan Silvia, Isuzu Impulse, Mitsubishi FTO, Mitsubishi Cordia (later the Eclipse), Ford Probe and Mazda MX-6. Out of all of these contemporaries, the Eclipse is the only one remaining in production.