Help please non folding folding mirrors.

[chris burford]

My dads wing mirrors on his j spec soop no longer fold in electronically after he had the car resprayed hes checked fuses theyre fine, they make a slight clicking noise when you operate the switch but no movement wondered if any body has experienced this before or know if it is easy enough to strip the mirrors and rebuild them, plus does anybody have a diagram on how they should go together.

your help would be appreciated cheers folks;)

 

Also the glass has ceased to move as well.

[chris burford]

Any body please.

[SupraStar 3000]

Just an idea.

 

Press the glass in and try and physically move the mirror.

It may be stuck and just need freeing.

[TRD3000GT]

Or the bodyshop broke them thinking they were manual mirrors and pushing them in

[Ian C]

Sometimes when washing the car I manually push the mirror and then push it back. It makes a clicking noise like it's bumping over some ratchet teeth. If your motors are doing that then their teeth are probably stripped.

 

In more bad news, the wing mirrors aren't a serviceable item, you just have to buy new ones and get them painted. Which isn't cheap I tried taking one apart once but it looks like you have to break the mirror to get at anything else... It's stuck on post-assembly I think.

 

-Ian

[spidermonkey]

if you can hear the motor working when you press the button then it must be getting power, i would press the button and try to gentley help the mirrors fold, if not you are going to have to strip them

 

my bad, looks like you can't strip em

[chris burford]

Just an idea.

 

Press the glass in and try and physically move the mirror.

It may be stuck and just need freeing.

Cheers for the response fellas the glass does move by hand but it makes a ratchety sound the mirror body however will not move at all by hand.

[Ian C]

And now we'll all go back and read what you wrote rather than what we think you wrote and realise it's the folding-in action rather than the adjustment of the mirror that is problematic You'd think the title of the thread would have given it away...

 

I've got no real idea how the mirror folding mechanism works. If neither of them work I'd say it wasn't the motors as having both fail at once is implausible. But then you hear a clicking noise which says something mechanical is getting power. And you say you can't move them by hand whereas I know I've hit them with my fat arse in the garage before and they fold both ways. Putting all that and the respray together I'd say the problem is that your body shop has glued them in place with paint and you need a stanley knife session /drgregoryhouse

 

-Ian

[Kranz]

Or a razor blade to part the two pieces.... should cut the paint nicely. Hold it in a pair of pliers.