my right ones gone droopy

[mike@brill]

I'm afraid it's help as ever - my drivers door mirror has gone droopy and keeps trying to point at the floor - I've looked at the bible and have had my arm through the speaker hole but cannot find anything to tighten - Oh 93 4.0l by the way - all I can feel is the cable disappearing into a tube set into the body work but that's all - As we were hoping to go to loton park hillclimb tommorrow (260 mile round trip )I am clutching at straws and hoping that someone has an easy quick fix! I know that's unlikely in a tiv but I can but hope! Thanks Mike..

[GreenV8S]

mike@brill said:

I'm afraid it's help as ever - my drivers door mirror has gone droopy and keeps trying to point at the floor - I've looked at the bible and have had my arm through the speaker hole but cannot find anything to tighten - Oh 93 4.0l by the way - all I can feel is the cable disappearing into a tube set into the body work but that's all - As we were hoping to go to loton park hillclimb tommorrow (260 mile round trip )I am clutching at straws and hoping that someone has an easy quick fix! I know that's unlikely in a tiv but I can but hope! Thanks Mike..

If you're lucky its just the mounting pillar come unscrewed from the boss on the door. If so, you can tighten it up by turning the body of the mirror as if you were trying to screw it into the door. If you're unlucky, the grub screw holding the mirror body to the mounting pillar has come loose, in which case you need a cut down allen key and lots of patience to tighten it up.

[Heath24]

Had similar trouble with the N/S mirror.
Ditto Green V8, but found mine to be the stalk had fractured. Constructed off 3 thin metal fingers. These broke while turning mirrors in to get car in garage.
Spoke to an friend in an engineering co. and they repaired it for me by using plates/glue and small bolts, (almost bombproof now , nothing like over engineering ).
During a trip to TVR main dealer, enquired about the stalk, (this being the one that you screw into the boss set into the door) approx £8 plus VAT.
Relatively easy job to do, but a word of caution, don't do as I did, while trying to remove mirror glass, broke it that was £25 plus VAT

[mike@brill]

do you have to take out the glass to tighten up the boss - if so how do you do it? - step by step please as I am pretty good at assuption usually followed quite closely by regret !! Mike.

[GreenV8S]

No, just turn the mirror housing.

[HarryW]

mike@brill said:

do you have to take out the glass to tighten up the boss - if so how do you do it? - step by step please as I am pretty good at assuption usually followed quite closely by regret !! Mike.

If you ever have to take the mirror glass out it is relativly straight forward. Apparently there is a little black tab that you can access when the mirror is fully adjusted one way, personally I couldn't find it.
It is held there by double sided tape, just heat it with a hairdryer it'll drop out, careful its hot so have some gardening gloves handy to catch it, it'll stay attached to the heater wires anyway so shouldn't hit the ground .

Harry

[shpub]

Heath24 said:

Spoke to an friend in an engineering co. and they repaired it for me by using plates/glue and small bolts, (almost bombproof now , nothing like over engineering ).

I hope it is not too tough as it is designed to fail to minimise damage to what ever hits it and your car. Too strong and it could rip out the mounting nut from the door or worse.

If the tower is broken then little you can do except replace it. It might just need twisting back into position. A more detailed section (about 12 pages) on the mirror is in the 2nd Edition and I am pretty sure it has been covered in this or the Griff archives.

[V8 Archie]

GreenV8S said:

If you're unlucky, the grub screw holding the mirror body to the mounting pillar has come loose, in which case you need a cut down allen key and lots of patience to tighten it up.

I was chatting about this the other day, and the general impression (from those that had tried it) seemed to be, "don't bother, let the dealer do it".

My passenger mirror was wobbling, so I took it in. Turned out the mirror chassis was damaged. New chassis (£160). I was charged one hour for fitting (although the dealer did pay half of mirror and fitting), but it actually took more like 2 plus. Having watched the lad struggling, I'm inclined to agree with what I'd heard.

[GreenV8S]

HarryW said:

Apparently there is a little black tab that you can access when the mirror is fully adjusted one way, personally I couldn't find it.

With the mirror adjusted fully 'up', there's a narrow gap between the bottom of the glass and the body of the mirror. You need to put a bit of plastic or something through the gap and push the tab sideways (can't remember which way but it'll only go one way). The glass will then fall out (and probably manage to hit the paintwork if you aren't ready to catch it). Once the glass is out of the way you'll see how the mechanism works to put it back, its very simple.

[Heath24]

[quote=shpub]




I hope it is not too tough as it is designed to fail to minimise damage to what ever hits it and your car.
Too strong and it could rip out the mounting nut from the door.

Shpub - Good point , but hope its not too tough, used similar thickness metal for the repair, small bolts were to hold the plates in position over the fracture lines, the mirror now turns in with minimal effort,(much improved from before) but would hope that if anything hit it,it would break as normal.