Some drunken **** has broken the plastic joint on my passenger-side wing mirror.



Does anyone know if the component parts can be bought separately, and how easy it is to pull it apart ?

Someone did this to mine and I was gutted, but not as much as went I paid for the replacement.

It's a complete unit (bracket, mirror etc) minus the coloured cover and they aren't cheap.

It will depend on model which one you need as there are at least four different ones per side, with and without heat, with and without external temp sensor (yes some have it on the off and some have it near side) and so on.

The trim on the inside of the door pulls free and there are a couple of bolts holding it on (and probably a wire connector) so it's fairly simple to fit.
Remove the glass mirror and pull out the internals of the old, broken one will get you to the coloured cover clips easier, save breaking that too!

Take you pick!
http://www.sgpetchparts.co.uk/fiat/panda/2012-2013-petrol-0.9-Twinair-85-bhp/Mirror-17058.html
Though I don't think the L/H with sensor is listed here, and mine appears to have a external temp sensor on the left, so I went to the dealer and paid twice as much!
Contact them with your reg/chassis number.

chr1s said:

Some drunken **** has broken the plastic joint on my passenger-side wing mirror.

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Does anyone know if the component parts can be bought separately, and how easy it is to pull it apart ?

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ouch.. sorry to hear that,
had to do similar on a PUG 307 - hit a pheasant..!!


if you're quick.. before the parts go cruddy,


mix-up some "araldite / epoxy" put around the fractured "ring",
cobble it back together with cable ties,
after a day you can snip the ties off + it's back together ( and should still swivel)


charlie

Thanks for that (even though it's not the answer I was hoping for).

Like yours, mine is electrically adjustable and appears to have the temp sensor.

I am expecting to collect my Multipla today, after a clutch replacement, so this is an expense I can do without. For the short term, I will remove the mirror and electrical cable - maybe I can figure out a way of making and fitting a new internal component. There isn't much give in the mirror unit, if a drunkard bashes into it, so this is likely to happen again, because we live on a route for drunken idiots going home from the pub.

You could mate the two parts together with a short pipe.

It was something I considered, remove the broken part and spring and slot a short pipe (with an interferrence fit, ie jam it in) in to hold the parts together.

Thing is, one end of the pipe needs to be narrower than the other as the holes are different sizes!

I'm fortunate in having access to a small machine shop in work, so I can get a colleague to machine a tube with different diameters at each end, if that's what it takes.

I just found the invoice for mine, £153.95, Ouch!
Near side mirror with sensor P/N F0000735536791

For £150 I wouldn't mess around trying to glue it up etc.

By the time you've spent 3 hours realising what you did didn't work etc.

Not worth the hassle..pay up and move house!

Aikidoamigo said:

For £150 I wouldn't mess around trying to glue it up etc.

By the time you've spent 3 hours realising what you did didn't work etc.

Not worth the hassle..pay up and move house!

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You must be paid too much

Are you doubting my engineering skills ? :nono: Even if I just Araldite it and it doesn't fold anymore, that's better than paying over £150 for someone to do the same again next year. The damage is all internal, so the repair will be invisible.
It turns out that it was bashed deliberately. The cars parked in front and behind me both have their mirrors folded 'forward' - unluckily for me the Panda mirror doesn't fold forward (and only folds stiffly) so it broke.

(And the Multipla repair costs are increasing. After replacing the clutch, they've found that the master cylinder also needs to be replaced ...)

Possibly some good news.

I took the assembly off the car; removed the glass (using the advice on earlier threads); unscrewed the motor assembly from the housing assembly; threaded the harness through the holes, so I could separate the mirror assembly from the bracket; unclipped the cover; and re-assembled the whole thing without fitting the glass or cover.

It appears that nothing is actually broken, but that the metal tube (which should be held in tension by the spring, securing the mirror assembly to the bracket) has just come out of the plastic moulding in the bracket.

If I can hold the bracket and mirror assembly securely mated together whilst applying pressure to the tube (against the spring), then twist the tube, it should go back in place (as long as nothing cracks or slips apart ...).

I'll try it tomorrow.

Success.

The mirror is back together and back on the car, fully working and looking as it did before .... at no cost.

I had to make a tool, but it was then quite straightforward. I'll post a 'how to' guide later.