Hi all, So I was driving along a while back and the mirror on the driver's door went all floppy. Indeed, it was so floppy I had to keep the window open and held the mirror in place until the next exit on the interstate. Then I removed the mirror, tightened up the nut to increase the friction and put the mirror back on the door. The mirror flopped. Fine, I thought, and tightened up the nut even more, then the whole thing came apart in my hands. It turns out that the bolt holding the ball joint together isn't really a bolt, but a hexagonal stud hammered into a hexagonal hole in the mirror mount, and held in place by friction. If the nut is tightened too much to overcome a really floppy mirror, the bolt is just pulled out of its hole and the whole thing falls apart. Not having a mirror is a really bad thing on a Massachusetts highway, so as a last resort, I took the mirror off the passenger's door and put it on the driver's door. The mirror is obviously a different orientation, and doesn't fold flat against the door, but does the job just fine. In fact, I think its better this way round - the overall backwards visibility on the highway is much better than before - and I'm not going to switch the mirrors over when I fix the broken one :-) Cheers, Graham p.s. Has anyone had any success securing the hexagonal shaped stud in the hexagonal shaped hole? Would glue work?
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