Re: Shaking mirrors (1988 80)

[Don Hoefer <hoefer@jaxom.eng.pko.dec.com>]

Tom Nas asks:

> The righthand door mirror om my 1988 80 is shaking when I drive. Extremely
> irritating, and it renders the thing almost useless. The lefthand one is
> (luckily) steady as a rock.
> It doesn't *seem* loose on its mountings, so what else can it be?

Is it the entire mirror assembly that shakes or is it just the glass?
The glass on each of my mirrors shook and that was just a prelude to
the glass falling off.  The glass is stuck on with double sided sticky
tape and eventually works loose.  I was able to rescue my passenger
side mirror after I learned the hard way what happens on the drivers
side.  The new glass assembly for my car is designed better, a little
plastic clip is molded into the backing to keep the backing from flexing
relative to the glass as the mirror is adjusted.

Don Hoefer
'82 Coupe