folding mirrors help

allkiller · Post by **allkiller** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:35 pm

my passenger foldie is playing up and wont go all the way out...folding in no prob but going out, it stops about 25mm short and the motor just clicks away can this be taken apart and adjusted \ fixed ??

thanks

Samiya85 · Post by **Samiya85** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:10 pm

I have a drivers side folding mirror for 5th gen

macky_6 · Post by **macky_6** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:50 pm

Yeah, you can dismantle the whole thing but its a pain in the ass, doorcard off job.

Try spraying WD40 into the base of the mirror and folding/unfolding a few times. Usually does the trick for mine. If not, spray some more

allkiller · Post by **allkiller** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:23 am

cheers

Post by **cebul** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:57 am

Like Macjy says, you can tak it apart, hace a look on PreludePower, Yanks defo stript them and there should a step by step write-up how to take it apart and put it back together.

mills · Post by **mills** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:27 am

There are cogs inside the mirror, you may find that some of the teeth will have snapped off

My drivers side mirror sticks at the start of folding, I have to give it a little pull to get it going

bennyboy · Post by **bennyboy** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:52 am

Yep, had lots of these apart

It can be simple, or as said it can be stripped teeth.
Sometimes you can reposition the wheel/cog in question so that only the good teeth are used, but you'll have to see if that's viable when you get it all apart.

From memory:

Door card off
Three bolts to take mirror off
Pop mirror off carefully
Undo revealed bolts (self explanatory really)
The mech box comes apart in two halves, just be careful due to all the bits, but it's not rocket science if you're fairly mechanically minded.
This is on a 4th gen BTW.

HTH

macky_6 · Post by **macky_6** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:16 am

I manged to take them apart and I am a complete arse at mechanics

allkiller · Post by **allkiller** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:10 pm

Nice, thanks for the break down , Bennyboy

allkiller · Post by **allkiller** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:26 pm

macky_6 wrote:Yeah, you can dismantle the whole thing but its a pain in the ass, doorcard off job.

Try spraying WD40 into the base of the mirror and folding/unfolding a few times. Usually does the trick for mine. If not, spray some more

Yep that worked, thought the cogs were cream crackered but all ok now.
cheers Macky-6

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