Door mirror

[philh]

Trying to remove drivers door mirror as floppy, i have done as the bible suggests and looked under mirror to see tab but i cant get the tab to move left (as suggested by bible) or right. Is there another to remove mirror from door or am i doing it worng in the first place (93 chimp)

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

Can't help with removal, but I also had the same problem with floppiness.

Rather than remove the mirror, which I'd read is a real PITA, I bought a sheet of black neoprene rubber from a craft shop (but you could probably get it from your friendly local BDSM supplier if you haven't got a craft shop nearby). I cut small strips of neoprene and used a screwdriver to push it down firmly around where the mirror body rotates in its collar. A couple of thicknesses of rubber holds the mirror firmly but still allows it to move.

It's a bit of a bodge, but it works - and looks okay.

[Ozstyle]

Hi, moving the tab to the left will only release the glass from the mirror housing.
Lots of threads on floppy mirror fixes in the archives and the bible is pretty good.
I removed my mirror due to same reason. Lift the black collar up the mirror base by rotating and pushing it upwards, this will expose the mirror pivot. There is sufficient room to insert the ends of a pair of long nose pliers(or circlip pliers) into the recesses in the mirror piviot. Then keep the pressure on and rotate anticlockwise to unscrew the mirror pivot from the door. The mirror wire plug will not pull through the threaded boss in the door, if fix can't be done insitu then speaker out and disassemble wiring plug (fiddly) in door to allow wires to pull through treaded boss.

Oz