Wing mirror glass

[SteveSJS]

Ring on the back of the glass (?) fits into receptor inside flag housing and then can be rotated with a screwdriver blade to lock glass back in place. Before trying make sure the rotating ring is clean and free to move. It's a tad fiddly, but easier in practice than it sounds. HTH

 

[Mark Elder]

Assuming Porsche use the same idea for all models, have a look at this thread [link=http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=404458]http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=404458[/link] Includes some pictures of what holds the mirrors on. I was being particularly dumb that weekend and folk on here helped me out! I don't think you need glue (the contact surface of a new mirror is adhesive by I think only to make a moisture resistent join) - perhaps some spray adhesive if you have some.

 

[Ephraim]

OK - so as I shut my passenger door yesterday, the glass dropped out of the wing mirror housing. Just fell straight out and landed on the floor.Luckily, it didn't break, but I now need to get it stuck back in. Does anyone have any suggestion as to the type of glue to use? I'm presuming that I can't just use any old glue, but don't really know where to start. My mirrors are the standard flag type.

Thanks,

John

 

[poprock]

You’re lucky—when that happened to me the mirror shattered into a thousand pieces by the side of the road!

 

[Ephraim]

Thanks for the links and stuff, the problem is that the actual glass has come away from the mounting mechanism. So, no ring on the back of the glass to hold it in place, as the mirror is no longer attached to its plastic backing. So looking at Mark's pictures, there's none of the plastic that he has on the view of the mirror fromt he underside. I literally just have an appropriately shaped piece of glass.

 

[poprock]

Rather than try to source appropriate fixative when I needed to replace mine, I bought a whole wing mirror from eBay for buttons and took the mirror with mounting plate from there.

 

[Mark Elder]

Oh - right, understand the problem - that's going to be quite a specialist adhesive - it's got to work between plastic and the metallic backing of the mirror, go hard, but not so hard it becomes brittle... Hopefully there's an adhesive specialist on here!

 

[xenon]

You need a contact adhesive such as EvoStick.

 

[Ephraim]

ORIGINAL: xenon You need a contact adhesive such as EvoStick.

He shoots, he scores! On your recommendation, I've used EvoStick, and it seems to have done the trick. I've done two very long journeys since, and the mirror seems to have stayed put. Fingers crossed that this continues. Thanks to everyone for the advice!