Hi all

Im doing a mondeo sidemirror mod for my mk1 focus, and got a couple of spare mirrors for the focus, that are non-electric, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the door plates off the mirrors.?

Have anybody tried to disassemble some mirros that can tell me if they just need to get roughed up or if im simply missing a screw.?

Thanks a lot.

 

I recently bought some electric mirrors from ebay to convert mine. The door plate on one was not as good as mine, so I thought I'd swap them.

Took the plate off of one of the old mirrors first, and it was a nightmare. They push fit onto the hinge which has a retaining lug that clicks into place when the mirror is pushed onto it. Ended up cutting the old mirror up to get it off, which obviously doesn't help when fitting the new mirror as I'd have to cut that up to get it off its existing plate.

Ended up keeiping the one from Ebay

 

Hi
Thanks for your answer.
Decided to brake the thing to find out how it´s build.
So I come to this:
If you remove the mirror, you can see the retaining lugs, as you mentioned, and the only way to seperate the mirror from the plate is to brake the lugs off, quite easy but you end up with a useless plate.
Furthermore, in order to get the wires off, you have the cut the metal strings, I see no option to remove them without, and I can´t see how to ever assemble them again, so bottom line is - if you first have taken them apart they are just to scrap.
And when I finally got it all apart, I also concluded that a Mondeo mirror wont fit the plate as well - so won't be going that way either.
Thanks again.