Electric mirrors >84

[trabitom99]

Wanted: electric mirrors, preferably but not necessarily for a LHD car.

The (electrically heated) mirror glass on the right hand side is smashed, after my mother had a slight disagreement with a concrete post in an underground car park.



Also, one of the plastic toothed runners (?) is broken, which means the adjustment only goes up and down, and no longer left & right:



Mirror assemblies are different for LHD and RHD cars, due to the angles the mirror adjusts to. But am I right in assuming that it's the mirror housing which is different, not the motor or the glass?

If anyone has a spare, or sees one in a scrappy could you let me know?

Thanks!

Tom

[petefarrell360]

Tom, we discovered through trial and error that it does make quite a difference it seems with LHD to RHD mirrors as there are angles etc that make the images correct and the view right for the driver to be either on the left or right. I think you're right it is the actual casing that differs. I do have a spare parts mirror with broken glass, if that helps with the toothed runner? Maybe getting some of the replacement cuttable mirror stuff would work for now? Was the mirror completely smashed, or was it hard to seperate and remove the mirror backing part from the centre circle?

Pete

[trabitom99]

Tom, we discovered through trial and error that it does make quite a difference it seems with LHD to RHD mirrors as there are angles etc that make the images correct and the view right for the driver to be either on the left or right. I think you're right it is the actual casing that differs

The plastic mirror housing holds the motor at a certain angle. Maybe this angle is different, depending on whether the car is LHD or RHD. It could of course also be the two motors, which might be housed at different angles in the motor housing - I'm not sure.

I do have a spare parts mirror with broken glass ... maybe getting some of the replacement cuttable mirror stuff would work for now?

Pete, that'd be great to be going on with, if its an electric one. I could always stick one of these:



onto the the broken glass for now, once I've removed the motor from the mirror housing.

Was the mirror completely smashed, or was it hard to seperate and remove the mirror backing part from the centre circle?

It was completely smashed, apparently, and my mum didn't stop to pick up the bits unfortunately. So I'm missing the mirror backing part which the motor sticks into ...

Tom