Rearview Mirror Fell Off
Rearview Mirror Fell Off
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From: Anaheim California
Get a $2 glue kit at any auto parts store ...follow directions do not use too much glue . put a piece of tape on the outside of the windshield to help you locate the center . Hold it straight and level when you glue the shoe to the inside ....be sure the shoe is upright so the mirror sides down onto it . slide on the mirror after the recommended cure time .
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From: Southern NH
Jim,
I tried the local parts store rearview glue on 1 of my cars 2 summers ago. It fell off 2 more times. I prepped it properly each time. I ended up going to a local windshield shop and they did it for free and it hasn't fallen off since. I mentioned my 3 attempts and he said he gets a lot of people with the same problem. He says the parts store glue isn't really that great when the temp in the car gets hot.
I tried the local parts store rearview glue on 1 of my cars 2 summers ago. It fell off 2 more times. I prepped it properly each time. I ended up going to a local windshield shop and they did it for free and it hasn't fallen off since. I mentioned my 3 attempts and he said he gets a lot of people with the same problem. He says the parts store glue isn't really that great when the temp in the car gets hot.
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From: Carlisle, Ontario, Canada
Hello Steve J.
I may get some flack for this, but what the heck. I had my mirror fall of an 85 S that I had a few years ago, just as you have experienced. When I went to replace the mirror I realized that the unit was really late 70's crap.
I went to a local wrecker and got a real nice GM mirror with independent lap lights at the bottom of the unit actuated by their own little switches. It came off a late 80's early 90's GM 2 door (Alero or something like that??). It was like new, and $20. I think it was also the same unit that came on that years Vette.
I got the piece that is glued on the window from a GM dealer for under $5, and like tresamore wrote, a glass shop glued it in for free.
It was fab! I just wired the little lights up to the 928's over head light for independent power. I was sure to grab the small 3-wire harness for the mirror (5-6 inch) and the little black cover for the wires so that they are hidden. The mirrors lights also were positioned just over my lap, so they perfectly illuminated anything I had in my hands, but the actual bulbs were never visible (no glare).
It was such a nice set up, and looked absolutely stock. When sold my S and purchased my current S4, one of the first things I did was have my mirror mounting stud removed, and a GM one glued in. I then got another neat little $20 GM lighted mirror.
There are nicer custom mirrors available with all sorts of stuff in them, but for $20 bucks you can't go wrong.
IMHO
I may get some flack for this, but what the heck. I had my mirror fall of an 85 S that I had a few years ago, just as you have experienced. When I went to replace the mirror I realized that the unit was really late 70's crap.
I went to a local wrecker and got a real nice GM mirror with independent lap lights at the bottom of the unit actuated by their own little switches. It came off a late 80's early 90's GM 2 door (Alero or something like that??). It was like new, and $20. I think it was also the same unit that came on that years Vette.
I got the piece that is glued on the window from a GM dealer for under $5, and like tresamore wrote, a glass shop glued it in for free.
It was fab! I just wired the little lights up to the 928's over head light for independent power. I was sure to grab the small 3-wire harness for the mirror (5-6 inch) and the little black cover for the wires so that they are hidden. The mirrors lights also were positioned just over my lap, so they perfectly illuminated anything I had in my hands, but the actual bulbs were never visible (no glare).
It was such a nice set up, and looked absolutely stock. When sold my S and purchased my current S4, one of the first things I did was have my mirror mounting stud removed, and a GM one glued in. I then got another neat little $20 GM lighted mirror.
There are nicer custom mirrors available with all sorts of stuff in them, but for $20 bucks you can't go wrong.
IMHO
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From: Hobbs, NM (or lovington)
eh mine fell off about 2 weeks ago when i bumped it cleaning the window. Now that i think about it, i really like the lights the one in my firebird had in it. I think ill get me one of those.
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I used one of the little kits to reglue the mirror about 6 months ago. So far it is still there. I like the GM Mirror idea, wish I'd heard of it before I glued the mirror back on :-).
To get the shoe off the mirror, I used a screwdriver to lever it out. It is a friction fit (on my 80 anyway) but it was in there pretty tight.
To get the shoe off the mirror, I used a screwdriver to lever it out. It is a friction fit (on my 80 anyway) but it was in there pretty tight.
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From: Huntington Beach
I got a mailer from a company called Mito Corp that sells some interesting rearview lights... Kind of expensive, but one is 'auto dimming' and the other has 'homelink'.
http://www.mitocorp.com/nvsmirro.htm
http://www.mitocorp.com/homelink_mirrors.htm
http://www.mitocorp.com/nvsmirro.htm
http://www.mitocorp.com/homelink_mirrors.htm
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From: Mountains of GA!
Originally posted by Perx
I got a mailer from a company called Mito Corp that sells some interesting rearview lights... Kind of expensive, but one is 'auto dimming' and the other has 'homelink'.
http://www.mitocorp.com/nvsmirro.htm
http://www.mitocorp.com/homelink_mirrors.htm
I got a mailer from a company called Mito Corp that sells some interesting rearview lights... Kind of expensive, but one is 'auto dimming' and the other has 'homelink'.
http://www.mitocorp.com/nvsmirro.htm
http://www.mitocorp.com/homelink_mirrors.htm
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From: South Texas
I've used the Wall-Mart product on several vehicals several times. Course, I really over did it on the preping, the cureing and such.
Unless I break it off, they have never fallen off. (I've broken it off multipule times, dang forehead.)
Usualy it's at least 2 years before I break it off.
Hum, and it's not like we don't get loughts of heat in Houston, or anything.
Unless I break it off, they have never fallen off. (I've broken it off multipule times, dang forehead.)
Usualy it's at least 2 years before I break it off.
Hum, and it's not like we don't get loughts of heat in Houston, or anything.
