MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: cossy on March 17, 2010, 07:08:35 pm

Title: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: cossy on March 17, 2010, 07:08:35 pm: Some complete to**er on a country road decided to go past so close and fast wing mirrors touched.

Broken the indicator part.

can you buy spares or is it a new unit at great expense
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: bacillus on March 17, 2010, 07:10:31 pm: Yes you can buy the indicator lens fitting seperately.

btw this may be a good opportunity to switch to the in-pro smoked ones.
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: Saint Steve on March 17, 2010, 07:12:24 pm: Â£35 odd for a vw version. Replaced one of mine a couple of months ago.
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: Nasir on March 17, 2010, 07:33:23 pm: Â£17.50 for the glass indicator part. Pretty easy to do yourself
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: Saint Steve on March 17, 2010, 07:44:19 pm: opps sorry was quoting a Pair as i ended up doing both on mine with the gloss mirror casing change :ashamed:
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: Nasir on March 17, 2010, 08:06:11 pm: Quote from: Saint Steve on March 17, 2010, 07:44:19 pm
opps sorry was quoting a Pair as i ended up doing both on mine with the gloss mirror casing change :ashamed:

Easily done :laugh:
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: cossy on March 17, 2010, 08:57:01 pm: Quote from: Nasir on March 17, 2010, 07:33:23 pm
Â£17.50 for the glass indicator part. Pretty easy to do yourself

is it best to remove the whole unit from the car to replace this item? the indicator almost looks like its glued in place though?

Need to also glue a couple of lugs back to the inside of the cover part. Any ideas on the best glue to use on this hard plastic?

cheers :happy2:
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: MattPoss on March 17, 2010, 09:22:09 pm: Which side is it?! I have a spare one lying round although I would have to check which side it's off.

Matt
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: cossy on March 17, 2010, 09:28:58 pm: Quote from: MattPoss on March 17, 2010, 09:22:09 pm
Which side is it?! I have a spare one lying round although I would have to check which side it's off.

Matt

its offside, drivers side.
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: Nasir on March 18, 2010, 01:15:53 am: Quote from: cossy on March 17, 2010, 08:57:01 pm
Quote from: Nasir on March 17, 2010, 07:33:23 pm
Â£17.50 for the glass indicator part. Pretty easy to do yourself

is it best to remove the whole unit from the car to replace this item? the indicator almost looks like its glued in place though?

Need to also glue a couple of lugs back to the inside of the cover part. Any ideas on the best glue to use on this hard plastic?

cheers :happy2:

You have to remove the whole mirror, it's not glued. It's held by a couple of torx screws. This is a good guide:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3819890

The most difficult bit is taking the mirror housing off, once this is done it's very easy.
Title: Re: Wing mirror smashed
Post by: cossy on March 18, 2010, 10:37:27 am: Just back from the stealers, Â£17.50 plus vat for the indicator part, not too bad I thought. Glad they did parts for it, hate to think how much a whole unit would be.

Did notice they were selling the VW oil for the GTi for Â£38.00 & at a 5 litre quantitly, thought this was a good price?