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rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:43 pm
by 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
Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:05 pm
by 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.
Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 10:19 pm
by 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.
Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 10:51 pm
by mike.perry
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Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:34 pm
by bmcecosse
^^^^^ What an ugly mirror!
Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:40 am
by C6Dave
gammy126 wrote:
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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Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:48 am
by mike.perry
bmcecosse wrote:^^^^^ 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.
Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 1:18 pm
by bmcecosse
Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:18 am
by oddbod
If it works,why not, by the time you need to replace it I am sure you will have a most elegant solution!
Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:29 pm
by i love my van
C6Dave wrote:gammy126 wrote:
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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Re: rear view mirror for door. Help needed
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:21 pm
by gammy126
Thank you for all your posts
