TAKdriver
Active Member
Hi
I've had to do it twice in the last 6 months and know where you're coming from.
On the centre back of the mirror glass are two solid plastic lugs : these slot/clip into a frame ( also plastic and replacement easily come by from a number of sources.) as a push fit : their alignment in the frame is horizontal i.e. one to the right of cntre of the glass and one to left : that frame is fixed by three screws onto the motor which is fixed in the outer plastic casing.
You may have to refit a new frame as a plastic lug may have cracked. I now carry a couple of spares ( a couple of quid each.)
there are also two half inch flexible plastic square "guides" on each top corner of the rear of the glass : these just slip into a slot and so far as I can see are just steadying mechanisms although they may serve some other purpose which I have not yet noticed !
It's a fiddly job refitting the glass but no more than that. If you study the shape of the lugs on the back of the mirror and the shape of the parts of the frame that they fir into you will find ( I think) that on re-fitting if you try to clip the inboard one into place first the outboard one will clip in more easily ( and it is literally a "click/push operation.)
Hope that helps.
Happy to describe further if necessary.
I'm not much good for anything else but I've had to do this twice recently !
When you pull as described by Simon you free the glass from the two lugs/clips.
I've had to do it twice in the last 6 months and know where you're coming from.
On the centre back of the mirror glass are two solid plastic lugs : these slot/clip into a frame ( also plastic and replacement easily come by from a number of sources.) as a push fit : their alignment in the frame is horizontal i.e. one to the right of cntre of the glass and one to left : that frame is fixed by three screws onto the motor which is fixed in the outer plastic casing.
You may have to refit a new frame as a plastic lug may have cracked. I now carry a couple of spares ( a couple of quid each.)
there are also two half inch flexible plastic square "guides" on each top corner of the rear of the glass : these just slip into a slot and so far as I can see are just steadying mechanisms although they may serve some other purpose which I have not yet noticed !
It's a fiddly job refitting the glass but no more than that. If you study the shape of the lugs on the back of the mirror and the shape of the parts of the frame that they fir into you will find ( I think) that on re-fitting if you try to clip the inboard one into place first the outboard one will clip in more easily ( and it is literally a "click/push operation.)
Hope that helps.
Happy to describe further if necessary.
I'm not much good for anything else but I've had to do this twice recently !
When you pull as described by Simon you free the glass from the two lugs/clips.
