Side View Mirrors filled with liquid??!!??
04-24-2008, 08:08 PM
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Side View Mirrors filled with liquid??!!??
My drivers side heated mirror got too hot and cracked at the edge. I guess and c. 2/3 of the liquid crap in it leaked out. I guess this is what makes it a $200 mirror.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Has this happened to anyone else?
04-24-2008, 09:03 PM
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I've had my mirrors turn brownish
inside on the edges. It started to work its way in towards the middle. Kinda seemed like a liquid pattern. I just bought the cheap replacement glass and slapped it over the old glass. Problem solved.
04-25-2008, 04:06 AM
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over the old glass? as in its place or as a cover?
one of my mirrors stopped heating and the other is showing a nasty yellow-to-brown gradient with condensation in it. Definitely liquid for the auto-dimming feature.
04-25-2008, 04:16 AM
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The replacement comes with
adhesive pads to stick the new mirror over the old mirror. I did not attempt to remove the old mirror as I would probably break something. The replacement mirror glass is surprisingly cheap. Just say goodbye to auto-dimming/heated.
04-25-2008, 05:30 PM
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Too expensive, i just fixed it...
Being sleep deprived from a newborn baby who doesn't sleep, i need to break something. So i got a shot at the mirror.
It was so bad i needed to removed the dimming film so that i could see something.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68260/broken_dimming_mirror.jpg">
So i removed the mirror and found that it was leaking at the bottom, namely from a crack in the surrounding black plastic frame. I proceeded to remove the frame and then wanted to remove the plastic film over the mirror. I found out the hard way that it is a glass that covers the mirror and keeps the dimming liquid in there.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68260/mirror_fixing_in_progress.jpg">
So it broke and i removed everything and cleaned the mirror. Now I have a simple, maybe heating, non auto-dimming for sure, mirror.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68260/mirror_fixed.jpg">
Now I need to clean the contour but it'll be much more useful this way.
I need to find a true replacement, i like the auto-dimming feature.
Martin
It was so bad i needed to removed the dimming film so that i could see something.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68260/broken_dimming_mirror.jpg">
So i removed the mirror and found that it was leaking at the bottom, namely from a crack in the surrounding black plastic frame. I proceeded to remove the frame and then wanted to remove the plastic film over the mirror. I found out the hard way that it is a glass that covers the mirror and keeps the dimming liquid in there.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68260/mirror_fixing_in_progress.jpg">
So it broke and i removed everything and cleaned the mirror. Now I have a simple, maybe heating, non auto-dimming for sure, mirror.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68260/mirror_fixed.jpg">
Now I need to clean the contour but it'll be much more useful this way.
I need to find a true replacement, i like the auto-dimming feature.
Martin
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