Wing mirror tightening.

[Vixpy1]

I'm having floppy problems, well.. basically my drivers wing mirror is loose, but i can't find a way of tightening the circular frame around the flange on the car. I had a new mounting put on it about 6 months ago, I don't think it broken, just loose?

Cheers,

Charlie

[V8 GRF]

If you're a TVRCC member then this link will help

http://www.tvr-car-club.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.as...

Full blown thread on removal and replacement

[Vixpy1]

V8 GRF said:

If you're a TVRCC member then this link will help

http://www.tvr-car-club.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.as...

Full blown thread on removal and replacement

Um.. yea.. err... forgot to join

[spend]

IIRC there is a well documented guide on either the Griff or Chim pages?

Dave

[V8 GRF]

Nothing on the Chimaera pages that I can see and the article on the Griffith Pages is about converting to the Corrado mirrors.

[AntonyJ]

V8 GRF said:

Nothing on the Chimaera pages that I can see and the article on the Griffith Pages is about converting to the Corrado mirrors.

Here is an old thread I contributed to.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Ant

[Crazycraig]

Vixpy1 said:

V8 GRF said:

If you're a TVRCC member then this link will help

http://www.tvr-car-club.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.as...

Full blown thread on removal and replacement

Um.. yea.. err... forgot to join

Here you go Charlie, my post copied over from above with a couple of tweeks.

www.tvr-car-club.co.uk said:

Check out the topic below that I started when my Driver's side decided to give up the ghost.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=192...


You will also find some good info on the below topics aswell.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=213...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=202...


I scoured the earth from breakers to old citreon spares and found these guys to be the best place for wing mirror parts (just incase), they also delivered within 2 days.

www.computermarket.com/mall/3933C3F3/OZ_Computers_... rors_70.html


As Steve said, and as you can see below, the door mirror is connected to the car via a nut which is fibre glassed into the door itself (shot 1 & 2) and then the collar is screwed into the nut (shot 3) with the tripob (which has the grub screw) connected to the collar.(shot 4)

Shot 1 - Boss



Shot 2 - Boss



Shot 3 - Collar



Shot 4 - Tripod



Shot 5 - Internal frame, Tripod and Collar



Shot 6 - All items



The best way I found was to -


1 - Cover door with something to protect the paintwork (old chammis or sweatshirt)

2 - Remove drivers door speaker.

3 - Disconnect cable connectors for mirror electrics.

4 - Remove mirror glass.

5 - Unscrew the 3 screws to remove front part (painted) of mirror housing & rotate out of the way so you can see the hole going through the door.

6 - Lift up the black plastic cover to give better access.

7 - Feed cables from inside through the hole and tripob. (can be a pain as the plugs are large but do them 1 at a time and they will fit)

At this point you should be able to tell if it's the grub screw which is loose or the screw which goes through from inside the tripod up into the internal frame, or even worse a broken tripod or internal frame. (shown below, 'god damn monkey metal')



8 - Take a large flat headed screw driver and stick it into on of the flat recesses of the collar as can be see in shots 3 & 4, and unscrew the hole wing mirror as one unit. (be careful not to twist the cables to much)

9 - Once removed, disassmble the unit so you end up with the collar and tripod as seperate items.

10 - Screw the collar back into the door and tighten using the flat headeed screw driver.

11 - Offer up the tripod and mark the position of the grub screw on the collar with a marker pen.

12 - Remove the collar again and once removed screw the tripod onto the collar so the grub screw is lined up with the mark. This way you know it is lineed up correctly and done up tight, be careful though, the tripods aren't the greatest.

13 - Put the black collar over the tripod & collar and rescrew the mirror hosing back onto the tripod so it is lined up with the tripod as in shot 5.

14 - Smear some silicon on the bottom of the collar so it gives it a better seal when fitted back to the door.

15 - Feed cables back through tripod and hole in door and screw the unit back onto the car. (check the cables every now and again to make sure they don't twist to much)

16 - Tighten back up using the screw driver into the slots. (be careful not to break the tripod)

17 - Check alignment of mirror

18 - Refit front of mirror housing and glass.

19 - IMPORTANT - Reconnect the cable connectors for the door mirror but check for correct routing. I didn't the first time and when I lowered the drivers window it kindly cut them off inside the door,

20 - Refit speaker and Voila, job done.


All in all it took about 1.5 - 2 hrs unless you cut your cables off with the window and it goes up to about 4 hours, but don't let this put you off, it all good experiance, and next time you do it it'll take you half the time, (promis) If you lived closer I'd even give you a hand.

Have fun.

Craig

Hope it helps.

[anonymous-user]

Mines going into Leven's on Friday for a floppy door mirror.

Was on my way down to Cornwall the other week and it flopped by the time I got to Fleet services.

Had to keep taping the thing up for the 3 days I was down there.