why does a mirror need electronics?
- motor-based adjustment/movement. 2. heating/fog clearing 3. indicators on mirror.
edit - or what @jontosh2001 says. Although there’s no excuse for indicators on a wing mirror.
adjust the angle of mirrors from within the car, some fold in, some are heated, some have the indicator lights on.
Someone smashed the whole wing mirror off my old car last year.
Couldn’t be arsed letting the insurance sort it out, and the idiot who broke it was in a UPS vehicle, so they were paying for it. Got a replacement unit for about £70, fitted it in an hour or two (and charged them £30 for my labour )
The mirror cap was the wrong colour though, so got Peugeot to sort me one out in the right colour - I think it was about £125 to spray a piece of plastic the size of the palm of your hand! JFC!
It’s just the cover I’ve broken, nothing more…I’ve even managed to clip it back on (in 3 pieces)! Finding a replacement should be too hard…except, like what @urbanfox found, ford want to re-paint a basically black cover to become the right shade of black…
I don’t think you actually need the rearview mirror iirc
you get cars and vans with no rear window and they’re obviously alright
I didn’t think about this until after getting it resprayed, but you could get a pair of chrome mirror caps (or ones with chequered flags, or all that shit) for literally half the cost of getting one resprayed.
Maybe ‘treat’ her to a couple of chrome mirror caps. Probably be able to pick one up in the right colour from a breakers yard or ebay or wherever pretty easy and cheap I reckon anyway.
I was of the understanding you needed 2 mirrors, one of which was the driver side one.
On the way to the scrapyard right now.
She really is the luckiest girl.
Maybe pick up some dinner while you’re there.
Any combo of two is good - a deer’s face took off my driver’s side one and it still passed it’s MOT!
I got a black wing mirror cover, some butchers sausages, a few potatoes and a Savoy cabbage