Hi people does the colour coded part of the door mirrors come off if so how easy are they to come off.

Some coonnnt has pinched my drivers side door glass.Im sure it hasnt just fell out cause it was there when i come in from work last nite.I came to the car this morning and the fookin thing is missing.

I will try and get a door mirror complete if i can and swap either the mirror over or the colour coded part.

Thanks

 

Amazing to think someone would want one off these, unless they have done it to sell it on.

Trouble is being heated, the glass is expensive, unless of course you opt for non heated?

Martin

 

Non heated is crap, especially when it's on the driver's side

The colour coded part comes off easy enough - remove the glass (but some scrote has saved you the effort already), and you'll see four or five pegs coming through the housing - pull out the plastic centre of the pegs that spreads them out (like screws in rawl plugs), then push the pegs to detach the colour part from the mirror housing.

 

the little pegs are made of rubber, so you will need a very needle nosed set of pliers to get to the awkward ones

they are in each corner, pulled them out, remember to keep them safe, pop the mirror cover off, job jobbed

there is a small slot under the mirror casing that you used to click the mirror glass into place when you get a replacement, heated ones are ace in the winter/wet weather

 

Thanks people.I would understand if the car was a fiesta or a mondeo but not a sierra. by the looks of things they have damaged the motor part of the mirror too.Dojj ive seen the slot under the mirror.I will have a look on ebay and get a complete mirror bought.

The security light on the front of my house stopped working a few weeks back. Ive been to busy with getting my car back on the road.


Ive seen the 4 plugs that hold the mirror casing on.

Thanks for your help people...

 

i'll have a hunt around for a housing if i've still got them sitting around if you need one mate

that said i had a massive clear out a few months back and binned a load of stuff but if it's not a massive hurry for you to get i'll look towards the weekend (still sick)

 

Right thanks matey.
Im watching.a complete door mirror on the bay at the moment.

 

So how do you get the mirror glass off and on without damaging the rest of the mirror.

 

The rear of the glass has a rotating locking ring, which you lock via the little slot
Poke a slim screwdriver into the slot so the blade is 90 degrees to the glass and lever it either left or right and it will unclip the mirror backing from the housing
If the motors have been pulled too much though they tend to strip the plastic adjusters which means a new unit or dismantling a spare for the job
It is very easy once you have done it once so don't fret

 

Right thanks Dojj. Your the man when it comes to sierras.

 

the one you are watching on ebay though, make sure the spring is tight on the flip section

lots of them sag over time due to the springs getting knocked about and even though they are designed to bounce back, once the spring stretches beyond it's normal rate it loses it's elasticity and thus you get the sag

if your mirror isn't sagging though and you just need the innards, they are fairly easily swapable as the motors are screwed into place on the little housing, one motor moved the mirror up/down and the other moves it side to side (there are only 2 motors and they simply wind in/out and when things break it's normally the little plastic lugs that have the teeth on them that get striped)

post up a pic of the damaged one and i'll walk you through if you like

 

Thanks Dojj. I wanna try my best to keep my mirror and when i get another one i just wanna swap the bits over. I will take some pics later for you matey. I dont finish work till 7 tonight.

Do you want me to pm you or just post the pics here.

 

post the pics here mate, that way it will help everyone

 

Sweet ok.I will take the pics tomorrow then try and get them posted tomorrow nite.

 

Its took me nearly 2 hours to post these pics up lol.

 

the bit the mirror connects to is broken mate so you need a complete unit

simple enough to unscrew from the other mirror but it's the wiring that's going to be the tricky bit as i can't remember if it was push or soldered to the sierra units, the later mirrors are all push fit clips that are easy to strip down

you can also clearly see the little prongs that hold the cover to the case in the right of the picture, top and bottom, with their little rubber bung things to spread them open and also on the left upper in the last picture, just above the wiring loom

easiest thing to do is to strip down the mirror with the 4 screws out and see how it's wired up, removing the rear cover gives you virtually nor access as it's just a cover over the top

 

Right thanks Dojj even if i have to cut the wires and solder them on to the other motors off the.other mirror.

Im still pissed off about my mirror the coonts. When i win the mirror on ebay and it comes i will strip them down and make a good one.


So are the mirror glass really easy to get off.

 

the mirror glass is easy to get off once you get the hnag of it

on the back of the mirror there is a round platic circle with 4 points on it
these locate into the coresponding holes in the mirror housing but there is a round locking ring which you turn a few mm to lock everything into place via the hole underneath

when they have removed the mirror, they have pulled the round locking ring off the housing so you can't just stick another mirror onto it as one of the adjusters is still left in the pic but the up/down one has gone with the ring because it's missing

let me see if i can find a pic to show you

 

I have a sierra door mirror in white somewhere, dont know if glass is ok.
If its ok you can have it mate
Just gonna go and have a look

 

Mush, post a pic of how it looks at the minute with the red rubber bands, holding the transit connect glass in


Like i said when i came to see you the other night mush, absolute cunts trick, you cant have nowt man, especially round here, with all the f*cking pikeys

 

Wow that would be cool.Do you want anything for it.Thats if the glass is ok.

 

Come on fella it took my slow arse computer 2 hours to post them pics i didnt dare post any more or i would of been late for work lol.

I will TRY and post a pic tomorrow.

 

Just for you Fiddy diddy.

 

rofl

even my daughter is laughing at that

 

Nowt wrong with that matey...

 

"why has he tied pink ribbons on his car daddy?"

i can't really explain to her that some scrote had half inched his mirror can i

 

Just checked the mirror, glass has cracks across it, but the mirror itself is complete.
Yours if you want it tho mate.
Can you just get a glass from halfords?

 

Ha ha ha there royal mail elastic bands ha ha.

 

If you dont want it mate i will have it off you. Im still gonna try and get a complete door mirror and make mine into a good one again.

You can get the stick on mirrors on ebay for 5 quid bin and free postage.Why couldnt the theiving coooonnt just buy one instead of pinching mine.

 

@ the mirror with bands.Glenn be carefull that dosnt come out whilst driving mate and go down the door otherwise you will be more pissed off.If your lucky you may even get one in white with the loom still attached so just swap it over in the door.One can only hope
Another thing if you do get one with a broken glass,just by sticking a halford one over the top will work.It will still heat through and be hardly noticeable for now like.

 

Im watching a white mirror on ebay.I was just wanting to swap the mirror glass and motors over then hopefully it will be back to normal.

Whats wrong with my.mirror now.I use the car everyday and need mirrors lol.

 

Just wanna say thanks to you all who helped me with my mirror.I swapped the glass and motors off the door mirror and put them in my mirror.It was a piece of piss to do.I didnt cut any wires the only thing i had to do was cut a plastic triange bit of plastic so i could get the wiring out.

Thanks again people.

 

glad its sorted glenn - i was gonna say i have a set of mirrors on the red xr4i im breaking

 

Yeh im happy about it too.I hope this one doesnt go missing lol.