Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:02:12 -0500
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From: Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject: Re: Re; Permanent Door Mirror Repair
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This thread reminds me of a vanagon I dismantled. The mirror had a real
winner working on them. This guy took the time to drill several holes
thru the very bottom of the plastic and into the ball to hold the mirror
in place. He then inserted a few screws as hard and deep as he could,
causing several of them to break off. It took me several hours to undo
all his damage, and maybe 1/2 hour to get the mirror working correctly.
ERic
Karl Wolz wrote:
>Over 600,000 miles on Vanagons, and I've never had a complaint about my
>mirrors. I've removed them and snugged them down, and had one stud pull
>out, but that doesn't seem unreasonable over that amount of use.
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>Karl Wolz
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
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>Behalf Of
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>>Robert Cardo
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:04 AM
>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>Subject: Re; Permanent Door Mirror Repair
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>>This isn't my fix.
>>I found it in the archives, and it worked well, and locked them down
>>permanetly.
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>>Take the mirror arm off the base.
>>Remove all the hardware.( sping washer etc.) Wrap it in a rag and put
>>the arm in a vise with the stud up. Lock a Vise Grips onto the hex
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>stud.
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>>Hit the bottom of the Vice Grips with a hammer removing the hex stud.
>>Drill the stud hole out with the proper fractional drill to accept a
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>1/4
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>>x 20 tap.
>>Tap the hole.
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>>Put the mounting hardware back on the arm. Run a 1/4 x 20 bolt into
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>the
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>>base of the mirror mount. Snug the bolt down.
>>Mount the mirror to the door.
>>Adjust the mirror to taste.
>>Remove the mirror and tighten the bolt down.
>>Install the mirror.
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>>It will never move again.
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>>What I have discoverd with these mirror's is, if you replace a broken
>>one with any of the list vendors money saving offerings the mirrors
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>will
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>>move and not lock down.
>>They are cheap in quality.
>>Mirror's direct from VW do not slide around as easy the inexpensive
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>ones
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>>do.
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>>I posted this to the list for the benift of Mr. Vehring, who was the
>>first to inquire and complain, but never found the time to inquire.
>>Pehaps he found a better way to solve his obvious problem on his own.
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>>Perhaps.
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>>RC
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