rear view mirror for door. Help needed

[gammy126]

Hi All, I have just bought a rear view mirror for the passenger side door, the kind that fixes to the window surround with grub screws. My problem is it keeps falling off when you close the passenger door. iv tightened it up as hard as i can , iv also tried packing the thing with rubber against the st/st and screwing on to that hoping that it will stop it slipping off but to no avail.

Any tips or suggestions apart from give up and throw it away. I know you can get ones that bolt in to the body work but i want to avoid this if poss.

Thanks for looking
Alan

[minor65]

I have mine fitted to the edge of the glass on the quarterlight window (with a rubber strip between the glass and the screws). Although this is probably not the proper place for it, it has always worked for me. A down side is you can't open the quarterlight window, but that doesn't bother me.

[dfyates]

I have one of the mirrors you described, i.e. which is fixed onto the window channel just aft of the quarterlight with two grub screws. The mirror is supplied with a little stainless steel strip to prevent the grub screws from damaging the stell of the window channel. Problem is - the outside face of the window channel has a sort of curved chamfer at its rear edge and the little steel plate cannot seat properly. Vibration of door shutting makes the mirror fall off after about 5 shuts.

I araldited the small steel plate to the outside of the window channel and let it cure, then tightened up the grub screws hard. Been on three months now.

[mike.perry]

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[bmcecosse]

^^^^^ What an ugly mirror!

[C6Dave]

Any tips or suggestions apart from give up and throw it away. I know you can get ones that bolt in to the body work but i want to avoid this if poss.

Thanks for looking
Alan

Like you the 'clamp on' ones kept falling off so I went another route not wanting to drill the wings

You can get ones that you can fasten to the triangle at the bottom of the front quarter lights.

You drill one hole on the outside edge and the retaining nut sits inside the triangle which being stainless steel won't rust unlike those that fit by drilling the front wings

You have to play around a bit to get the angle right, but they do work.

Got mine from Chris at Tom Roy

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[mike.perry]

^^^^^ What an ugly mirror!

Thanks for the compliment Roy. It was only fixed as a temporary mirror whilst I sorted the wing mirrors out but I never got around to removing it and it refused to fall off. The rusty bit is a piece of old hacksaw blade as I lost the original clamping bar.

[bmcecosse]

[oddbod]

If it works,why not, by the time you need to replace it I am sure you will have a most elegant solution!

[i love my van]

This looks ace!!!!! i have a van with the same mirrors on the wings but you can't see a blinking thing with them! I will have to get a pair and put them on the doors! the rectangle ones just aren't the same! Do you happen to have any contact details of where i can buy them?
Any tips or suggestions apart from give up and throw it away. I know you can get ones that bolt in to the body work but i want to avoid this if poss.

Thanks for looking
Alan

Like you the 'clamp on' ones kept falling off so I went another route not wanting to drill the wings

You can get ones that you can fasten to the triangle at the bottom of the front quarter lights.

You drill one hole on the outside edge and the retaining nut sits inside the triangle which being stainless steel won't rust unlike those that fit by drilling the front wings

You have to play around a bit to get the angle right, but they do work.

Got mine from Chris at Tom Roy

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[gammy126]

Thank you for all your posts