emcs2

Hi all,

I have a 2001/Y Audi A4 with electric folding wing mirrors. This
weekend, it has apparently been attacked by somebody who wanted to
unfold one of the wing mirrors for a laugh. Unfortunately, they
instead managed to break it at the base where the mirror unit joins to
the rest of the car.

Now the good thing is the whole mirror unit and casing is intact and
all the motors are still working, but the fibreglass and rubber that
fixes it to the chassis are snapped.

What do you think is the cheapest way to fix this? Is it possible to
replace just the attaching bracket instead of the whole mirror
assembly? If the whole mirror does need to be replaced, how easy is
this to do by myself - does it require the door to be taken off or is
it a quite modular unit?

I can supply pictures by email if this helps,

Many thanks in advance for any help,


Ed

Mike Buckley

Can't help with the specific problem and the lack of response suggests no
one else can either, BUT, one of the nice things about Audi's is that they
seem to be one of the few makes where you can often buy the individual
components of a unit, rather than having to buy the entire unit.

Have speaks to your Audi dealer's parts dept.

With regards to removing the thing from the car, again can't comment on
later Audi but when I had to do this on an 80 I found it a simple job of
just undoing a couple of bolts once the mirror head had been swivelled. No
need to remove door cards or similar. Again, the dealer would guide you no
doubt.

Mike.

"emcs2" <emcs2@email.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a 2001/Y Audi A4 with electric folding wing mirrors. This
> weekend, it has apparently been attacked by somebody who wanted to
> unfold one of the wing mirrors for a laugh. Unfortunately, they
> instead managed to break it at the base where the mirror unit joins to
> the rest of the car.
>
> Now the good thing is the whole mirror unit and casing is intact and
> all the motors are still working, but the fibreglass and rubber that
> fixes it to the chassis are snapped.
>
> What do you think is the cheapest way to fix this? Is it possible to
> replace just the attaching bracket instead of the whole mirror
> assembly? If the whole mirror does need to be replaced, how easy is
> this to do by myself - does it require the door to be taken off or is
> it a quite modular unit?
>
> I can supply pictures by email if this helps,
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help,
>
>
> Ed
>

Mike Buckley

Can't help with the specific problem and the lack of response suggests no
one else can either, BUT, one of the nice things about Audi's is that they
seem to be one of the few makes where you can often buy the individual
components of a unit, rather than having to buy the entire unit.

Have speaks to your Audi dealer's parts dept.

With regards to removing the thing from the car, again can't comment on
later Audi but when I had to do this on an 80 I found it a simple job of
just undoing a couple of bolts once the mirror head had been swivelled. No
need to remove door cards or similar. Again, the dealer would guide you no
doubt.

Mike.

"emcs2" <emcs2@email.com> wrote in message
news:1122221418.857263.148630@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a 2001/Y Audi A4 with electric folding wing mirrors. This
> weekend, it has apparently been attacked by somebody who wanted to
> unfold one of the wing mirrors for a laugh. Unfortunately, they
> instead managed to break it at the base where the mirror unit joins to
> the rest of the car.
>
> Now the good thing is the whole mirror unit and casing is intact and
> all the motors are still working, but the fibreglass and rubber that
> fixes it to the chassis are snapped.
>
> What do you think is the cheapest way to fix this? Is it possible to
> replace just the attaching bracket instead of the whole mirror
> assembly? If the whole mirror does need to be replaced, how easy is
> this to do by myself - does it require the door to be taken off or is
> it a quite modular unit?
>
> I can supply pictures by email if this helps,
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help,
>
>
> Ed
>

Mike Buckley

Can't help with the specific problem and the lack of response suggests no
one else can either, BUT, one of the nice things about Audi's is that they
seem to be one of the few makes where you can often buy the individual
components of a unit, rather than having to buy the entire unit.

Have speaks to your Audi dealer's parts dept.

With regards to removing the thing from the car, again can't comment on
later Audi but when I had to do this on an 80 I found it a simple job of
just undoing a couple of bolts once the mirror head had been swivelled. No
need to remove door cards or similar. Again, the dealer would guide you no
doubt.

Mike.

"emcs2" <emcs2@email.com> wrote in message
news:1122221418.857263.148630@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a 2001/Y Audi A4 with electric folding wing mirrors. This
> weekend, it has apparently been attacked by somebody who wanted to
> unfold one of the wing mirrors for a laugh. Unfortunately, they
> instead managed to break it at the base where the mirror unit joins to
> the rest of the car.
>
> Now the good thing is the whole mirror unit and casing is intact and
> all the motors are still working, but the fibreglass and rubber that
> fixes it to the chassis are snapped.
>
> What do you think is the cheapest way to fix this? Is it possible to
> replace just the attaching bracket instead of the whole mirror
> assembly? If the whole mirror does need to be replaced, how easy is
> this to do by myself - does it require the door to be taken off or is
> it a quite modular unit?
>
> I can supply pictures by email if this helps,
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help,
>
>
> Ed
>