Following successful painting of horrid orange grills am going to get my m8 to do the door mirrors and mounts.

How do they come off - I can see the mirrors have three screws so I assume you just undo them and the mirror housing comes off - what about the bit they screw onto ? Is it normal to color code that bit ?

And if so how does it come off ?

T.

 

there is 4 10mm bolts holding them on

 

Where pray are these bolts and is it normal to code the mounts ?

T.

 

Inside the car, at the front corner of the window there is a small triangle of plastic.

Prise that off, and the bolts are under there.

And yes my mounts are colour coded as well.

Andy

 

Thanks for all that the housings come off fine but ...
and this is really getting rather irritating ....

Where does the mirror power cable disconnect ! If its under the door trim -- I cant seem to get the door trim off - I;ve undone all the screws, under door lock, below handle under prise off cover and the one on the left hand side but.

Or is it a case of cutting the wire and reconnecting - seems a bit drastic...

Need to sort this today as if as my m8 is going to get paint tomorrow and I was going to take the petrol cap cover plate of so we can get a spot on match.

Help ....

Marbles are getting really lost now !

T.

 

The trim *should* come off quite easily.

You seem to have got all the bolts - have you prised up the window switch pad & disconnected the wires there?

Also the door trim "hangs" on the metal of the door at the top - well it more than hangs as it has clips too. Therefore you need to make sure all the push-downs around the edge are undone & then push up the trim from the bottom.

 

Top man - I'll give it a go. Is there a connector for the wire in the door panel ?

T.