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Door mirror heating

Mark Elder

Mark Elder

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Trivial I know, but I need to investigate why my pax door mirror has stopped demisting. Driver's side is fine.

Anyone had this issue and found an obvious cause? I assume it's on same fuse as driver's side? Guess I'll start by pulling the glass off and see if power is reaching the element.

It was fine last winter. I suppose it might be related to the doors coming off for the check stays to be sorted last spring. That caused the central locking electrics in the pax door to get disconnected. I'd be surprised if it is a disconnected plug because the mirror motors are working fine.
 
Broken wire is most likely, they are very brittle when old and break off the connector on the back of the glass. As you say, all wiring is though the one plug
 
Just posting a conclusion on this. Finally got around to investigating and the cause was that one of the pins had pulled out of the plug/socket joint at the mirror end of the loom inside the door. Presumably pulled when the door was removed for fixing the check-stay. Mirror now heating again.[:)]
 
Hope they did the check stays OK - sounds like they didn't bother to connect everything back afterwards[8|]
PS 2 years since your original post? Glad to hear you've fixed it[:)]
 

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That's right Paul, I was very surprised by that myself - somehow heating of a mirror never got to the top of my list!
 
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