Door Mirror
The glass fell out.. on the road of course. I just had a glimpse of a cloud of tiny fragments drifting away behind me.
I couldn't get to a shop for a few days, and boy how I missed that mirror when moving left or reversing ;o)
I went to one of our local motor stores and bought a replacement SRG90 glass. It has a white sticky foam backing to stick it to the old cracked mirror, and this shape is to fit a Fiat Uno. As the glass was missing, I stuck it to the original plastic panel, after first scraping then wiping off the old foam with Evo-Stik solvent. I hoped the solvent wouldn't eat the plastic and this seems to work, the old stickum came completely off clean. The foam had hardened and the glue had dried out. The new mirror was stuck in after a couple of trial fits and practice - you only get one go and the mirror needs to have clearance all round if you want the tilt adjustment to work!
As you can see the fit is excellent, and looks just like the driver's side:
Driver's side for comparison:
The shadows and tilt are deceptive, but the match is pretty good :o)
Only one regret - I found a cheaper place for the same thing later....
UPDATE 2008!
I've been half expecting it. The driver's side mirror fell out :o( After getting hold of a replacement, this time an SR90, I left it under the passenger seat for weeks, and grumbled at the empty mirror housing every time I tried to use it. This time I got a picture of the old tape. You can see close up how cracked and dry the old stuff is, and also the large area where there has been a gap - it's where the bugs got in.
Here is the replacement glass. It has a large double sided tape on the back, giving at least the glue area of the original. The funny looking strip is a flexible plastic handle for manipulating the glass, it has its own sticky pads on it.
I didn't bother taking a photo of the finished item, it looks exactly the same as the original! The only difference I can see is the glass is flat. Not a big problem when the mirror is so close.
Aixam