how do i take my wing mirror off my 94 chim

[jonny car roll]

i need to take my drivers side wing mirror off how do i do it??? help

[pilgrim13]

The door mirror is mounted on an alloy tripod arrangement that screws into a thread in the door. The mirror itself attaches to the alloy tripod and is held in place with a grub screw. To get to the grub screw you have to push the trim between the door and the underside of the mirror out of the way. Its best to put some sort of tape on the door around the mirror base to protect the door paintwork

[jonny car roll]

o.k thanks... however i've got access to the bottom of the mirror from a hole in the door trim from taking a speaker out. the wing mirror now unplugged can be rotated around and around but is not coming out... is this grub screw a alan key job and how do i get the door trim off

[Philr]

I did a full write up on how to remove the mirror a few years back...but it doesn't look like these are still available on PH anymore.

The door panel comes off by undoing the 3 or 4 bolts at the base of the door (on the inside !). The only way to undo them is to get your arm (or that of a kid/small person) to undo the nuts.
One bolt is forward of the the speaker hole and the rest are at regular points towards the back of the door.

Yess you need to undo the grub screw in order to take the mirror off the door....otherwise it will just spin.

Hope this helps

Phil

[edward1]

To me it sounds like the grub screw is loose and the mirror is rotating but not the bottom part the screws into the embedded bolt in the door. The remove this bit (and tighten when replacing) I lifted the plastic covering on the outside of the car that goes over the tripod bit. Having taped the body work used a punch and a hammer to access the bit that fastens into the door and tapped it round until loose enough to be undone by hand. I'm sure this is not the authorised way of doing this but it worked!

You may be glad the grub screw is loose. I recently had the aluminium mirror frame snapped by someone trying to rotate the mirror, hence the desire when replacing the mirror to tighten without putting torque throught the frame.

A real PITA job! 2 links that I found helpful below (if they work when copied to a post)

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...