Thread: Fixing car side mirrors?

check out ebay too, they have heaps of parts on there , especially that sort of thing, if you can't find it on there, ask one of the companies that are already selling parts on ebay, they may get it in for you...

Pulled a similar stunt meself (and no I won't tell you what I hit). I had a windscreen place put in a piece of glass - it was flat, which doesn't give the same field of view as the curved, but at least I now know where the other vehicles are which I didn't with the curved glass. I've used curved mirrors before but could never come to terms with this vehicle (an AUll)

Richard

I had a glazier replace an ordinary car mirror for me, cheaper than the original part.

caught the left hand mirror on my au a while back and just poped the glass out didnt break but was unable to replace mirror as the lugs that hold it in place broke and that ment the power mirror no longer worked ie wouldnt move was up for a whole new mirror but luckily got one from a wreckers for $80 and was easy as anything to install dont knoiw how you would go trying to get a new glass cut and to get it back into the frame for the mirror

I did exactly the same thing to my car side mirror with the wheely bin. I bought the plastic mirror 'kit' from Auto Cheap, but I discovered that if it is not glued in very smoothly then it warps the image terribly and is totally useless.
I went to Toyota and was told that I have to buy the whole mirror fitting costing $270. I'm sure there must be someone out there who would like to start up a business selling replacement car mirrors here in Brisbane, so far haven't found one yet.

Hi Lotte, this thread is nearly 3 years old. When posting in a thread, it is an idea to check the date of the last post. Welcome to the forum.
Regarding your mishap, I sympathize with you and it is annoying when you have to replace a whole item when you only need part of that item but that seems to be the way of the world today. Nobody repairs anything any more, they just replace the whole thing.