Passenger Side Auto Mirror -need help!

[Brett Dikeman]

At 5:24 PM -0800 1/27/03, Kevin Clinton wrote:
>Thanks for the response.
>
>"Probably the easiest is just to find a local junkyard, ask if they
>  have any 5000's, and pull one off ..."
>
>Are you suggesting that I just swap out the whole mirror - (housing
>and all), or just take the innards from the 5000?

Sure.  Why not?  Remember, it's the same mirror across ALL the type
44's, and if you've got such a broad criteria, finding one should be
downright easy.

>Assuming your suggesting I swap innards can you tell me how to take
>off the glass mirror to gain access to the mechanism.

There are two styles- yours -should- have the rotating collar.  The
Bentley illustrates this best, but the back of the mirror has a ring
on it with notches that a sliding ring, on the mechanism, traps.

You rotate the ring by inserting a narrow flat blade screwdriver in
the hole on the bottom straight up, and it catches on teeth on the
outside of the rotating ring- you then angle to either the right or
left(sorry, don't remember!) and the collar turns...then the glass
should pull off.

Newer cars have some sort of snap-fit attachment, I'd have to dig out
the Bentley to see what the 'preferred' removal method is.

Brett
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