I just found out today that my stock side mirror has a cracked glass in it.
don't know if our recent cold spell caused a run, or if its been cracked since last fall, or most likely I'm just having a bad luck spell....


but anyways I need to replace the mirror-glass and have never done that before. anyone have a tech article or thread about this?

can it be removed without damaging the stock mirror housing? How?

the way these mirrors have skyrocketed in value, I'd really just rather repair mine than replace it...

thanks for the tips and help.
and hopefully I won't have 7 years bad luck!

brant

I replaced my mirror once, but it was 20 years ago!

As I recall, it's just a matter of prying out the thin black plastic beading that holds the mirror in.

The mirror will just come right out.

Take the broken one to a glass shop and have them cut you one the same size.

Pry the plastic retaining ring along the long horizontal side, and be sure it isn't cold or it could crack. Once it's out, any glass shop can do the mirror for you - use the old one for a pattern.

Brant,

Search for a thread started by me. There was an awesome how-to put in there by McMark. I thought they were going to put it in the classics. It is exactly what you need.

QUOTE (GeorgeRud @ Mar 22 2006, 08:45 PM)

any glass shop can do the mirror for you

I found that the glass shops wanted around $40 to cut a piece of mirror--I guess it was too small of a job for them

AA sells them for $11--just specify if you have 5 or 5.25 inch glass. The plastic retaining ring prys out very easy.

I gotta do one for my passenger sidemirror thread

Wow...

great info everyone!

Awesome tips..
I'll do a search (again) with your name Michael!

thanks guys!
brant