twjanak
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Good morning!
New registered user here but have to say thanks for the help via previous posts on side view mirror repair. Definitely could not have made it without the post from dcsang Here. Hoping this post below may help someone in the future.
My passenger side view mirror would not stay folded out, it would blow back in the wind part way to the window and then catch the detent and stay in this semi folded position. Doing the "reset" procedure found online did not help any. The mirror seemed to operate/fold normally, just seemed like the detent was out of position.
I removed the glass via dcsang's instructions, which were invaluable. Uscrewed the tilt motor and removed the blinker light. Removed the entire plastic housing exposing the plastic arm and wiring. I immediately noticed a broken wire on the two pin connector shown below. I also could see that the mirror would still lock into it's detent, just that the detent was in the wrong/semi folded position. Searching for info on these two wires and the little "Magna" module they connect to led me to believe they had something to do with the fold motor circuit. I tried to salvage the two pin connector to reconnect the broken wire but ended up ruining it in the process. So cut the connector off and twisted the wires together to test. Folding the mirror in and out a couple times resulted in the detent stopping in the correct position. Soldered the wires together and tested again with perfect results.
I do believe sometime during the several weeks that the mirror would not stay in the correct position it went from folding correctly to not folding at all. May have even been intermittent folding/not folding. I assume that was due to an intermittent connection with this broken wire. Either way, it appears to be fixed and I will road test it as soon as I get the front brakes reassembled!
Travis
New registered user here but have to say thanks for the help via previous posts on side view mirror repair. Definitely could not have made it without the post from dcsang Here. Hoping this post below may help someone in the future.
My passenger side view mirror would not stay folded out, it would blow back in the wind part way to the window and then catch the detent and stay in this semi folded position. Doing the "reset" procedure found online did not help any. The mirror seemed to operate/fold normally, just seemed like the detent was out of position.
I removed the glass via dcsang's instructions, which were invaluable. Uscrewed the tilt motor and removed the blinker light. Removed the entire plastic housing exposing the plastic arm and wiring. I immediately noticed a broken wire on the two pin connector shown below. I also could see that the mirror would still lock into it's detent, just that the detent was in the wrong/semi folded position. Searching for info on these two wires and the little "Magna" module they connect to led me to believe they had something to do with the fold motor circuit. I tried to salvage the two pin connector to reconnect the broken wire but ended up ruining it in the process. So cut the connector off and twisted the wires together to test. Folding the mirror in and out a couple times resulted in the detent stopping in the correct position. Soldered the wires together and tested again with perfect results.
I do believe sometime during the several weeks that the mirror would not stay in the correct position it went from folding correctly to not folding at all. May have even been intermittent folding/not folding. I assume that was due to an intermittent connection with this broken wire. Either way, it appears to be fixed and I will road test it as soon as I get the front brakes reassembled!
Travis