How to: wagon power mirrors
moebiius
Wagonist
first off you should have the set of wagon mirrors and set of sedan mirrors, you will be essentially throwing away half of each mirror from each set.
for starters, heat the sedan mirror around the edge and the glass for approximately 1-2 minutes making sure you move the heat gun around! this will allow you to stick a butter knife in one of the edges (sometimes the rubber boot that holds the mirror pulls back because of the heat and you don't have to use the butter knife) and pull the blunt side of the butter knife around the edge slowly so you can somewhat pull the mirror away from the rubber / plastic frame like so..
next objective:
remove the crews holding down the mirror motor and the lower metal plate that the mirror motor sits on, this entails that you slowly remove / release the springs from the lower metal base plate.
next:
take the base of the mirror off the mirror by unscrewing these two when you open up the hinge part of the entire mirror assembly
on the other side are these screws you need to take off:
wagon on the left and sedan on the right
you will be using the mirror housing from the sedan with the wagon base + metal base support
so far this is what you have:
from my two fingers this is the portion of the sedan hinge assembly that you will be using in conjunction with the wagon base:
have to use a punch to get the hinge out, remember to punch it out from the bottom and not the top, this is very important!
almost out:
out:
this is the part you need from the sedan mirror
now the boring part (unless you have proper tools this is gonna take a while), you need to trim some parts of the aluminum hinge:
now shave this like so:
also one last shave that i forgot to take a picture of, its this little nub in the middle of the hinge portion, you'll see what i mean when you put the wagon mirror assembly together with this piece.
onto the wagon mirror assembly, punch out the hinge rod, bottom out just like the sedan but the wagon hinge rod is much more obvious!
comparison between sedan and wagon hinge rods
sedan hinge into the wagon base
now you can put everything back together! remember to use the springs from the sedan!!!! and learn how to de-pin the harness if you don't want to cut and solder!!!
just in case you mess up, the sedan springs are covered in grey plastic and look the same on both ends.
and mirror cover base ends are different, here's a picture, wagon on the left and sedan on the right.
for starters, heat the sedan mirror around the edge and the glass for approximately 1-2 minutes making sure you move the heat gun around! this will allow you to stick a butter knife in one of the edges (sometimes the rubber boot that holds the mirror pulls back because of the heat and you don't have to use the butter knife) and pull the blunt side of the butter knife around the edge slowly so you can somewhat pull the mirror away from the rubber / plastic frame like so..
next objective:
remove the crews holding down the mirror motor and the lower metal plate that the mirror motor sits on, this entails that you slowly remove / release the springs from the lower metal base plate.
next:
take the base of the mirror off the mirror by unscrewing these two when you open up the hinge part of the entire mirror assembly
on the other side are these screws you need to take off:
wagon on the left and sedan on the right
you will be using the mirror housing from the sedan with the wagon base + metal base support
so far this is what you have:
from my two fingers this is the portion of the sedan hinge assembly that you will be using in conjunction with the wagon base:
have to use a punch to get the hinge out, remember to punch it out from the bottom and not the top, this is very important!
almost out:
out:
this is the part you need from the sedan mirror
now the boring part (unless you have proper tools this is gonna take a while), you need to trim some parts of the aluminum hinge:
now shave this like so:
also one last shave that i forgot to take a picture of, its this little nub in the middle of the hinge portion, you'll see what i mean when you put the wagon mirror assembly together with this piece.
onto the wagon mirror assembly, punch out the hinge rod, bottom out just like the sedan but the wagon hinge rod is much more obvious!
comparison between sedan and wagon hinge rods
sedan hinge into the wagon base
now you can put everything back together! remember to use the springs from the sedan!!!! and learn how to de-pin the harness if you don't want to cut and solder!!!
just in case you mess up, the sedan springs are covered in grey plastic and look the same on both ends.
and mirror cover base ends are different, here's a picture, wagon on the left and sedan on the right.
Comments
did you still want the rear filler piece? got it all packed and ready to be delivered