repairing doormirrors?

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Hi

Hi i wonder if someone could help me

my door mirror broke into 2 pieces (foot, housing) and now i wanna try and repair it, the aluminium tube(?) snapped inside the housing/foot

did anyone here repair the door mirror? if so..would anyone share some information and give some tips and tricks?

thanks

/Stef

 

[DonDavis]

Stef, do you have a picture? What exactly broke on it? There's a metal tube and spring inside that creates tension between base and mirror, I think. Is that what broke?

Don in Germany

 

[S|b]

yes that part broke..the "tube"

the base and housing is undamaged

is it possible to repair this..or do i need to buy a new mirror?

thanks for replying

/Stef

 

[DonDavis]

Stef, you should be able to replace that tube with something from your mechanic or hardware store... It's threaded on the outside, right? Have you removed the base yet?

Don

 

[S|b]

i havent done anything except lots of thinking

ill try and figure out something and then ill update this thread

thanks

/Stef

 

[DonDavis]

sounds good!

 

[JPS Europa]

I am sure that your local machine shop can fabricate a tube piece for you for little money.

 

[olle olsson]

Have you fixed the mirror yet? Its quite easy. Fixed mine myself. If you have any, and I mean any problems just call me. Save lots of time in thinking. Im what they call a problem solver. And I have had a lot of problems.
Olle

 

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hi there...you are bringing a quite old thread back to life :smile:

yes my doormirrors are repaired...i broke both(!) doormirrors within a month last summer....first one was probably vandalism..the second was all my fault...i borrowed my neighbours garage when i was gonna try and fix the first one!...lack of sleep, long working week..you all can imagine what happend when i drove into the garage..anyway it belongs in the past..they are fixed and function 100% :biggrin:

 

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the broken part

 

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the broken part close up

 

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Stainless steel "thingy"...ready to fit

 

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lined up together...dont bother about the dirty "foot" i cleaned it later :smile:

 

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connected...notice the small cracks...it happens if you push too hard using the drill

 

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i did some testing..functions 100%

 

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assembled, ready to be mounted again

 

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i have loads more pictures

i was thinking of doing a DIY repairing mirrors...but my technical english is not good enough and it would not make sense..and i dont want grammar nazi to attack me :smile:

big thanks to Anders at my work who helped me

/Stef