Replacement Wing Mirror - OEM or aftermarket?

[Flash]

Hi All,
After some advice regarding the replacement of Power Fold Wing Mirror. Some boy racer has just taken mine clean off (Parts of distributed far & wide) is it best to stick with VW parts or are some of the aftermarket non OEM ones ok?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Pauly]

Collect as many parts as possible as the aerials are inside the wing mirrors, aftermarket mirrors fit and work but generally dont come with the aerials inside
A complete genuine VW one with aerials (model dependant) is around £300-400 unpainted

 

[Flash]

Pauly, thanks for the advice, pretty gutted that the mirror is damaged to the extent that it is, guess I just wanted a cheap fix but VW seems to have the winning edge.
Cheers.

 

[Pauly]

Genuine are available in component form so you may not need to replace everything depending on damage

 

[Flash]

I will have a good look, hopefully as you say I won't need every bit of it. Really annoying as he did stop until he seen me getting out of the van, then as you guessed he did one as rather a rapid speed, that said looking at my mirror his car must be damaged (hopefully)

 

[Pauly]

Heres the ETKA diagram each numbered piece is available individually, i have prices for most of the pieces, let me know what bits and i can give you an idea of cost

 

[Flash]

Pauly that's tip top, once I have looked properly I will give you a shout, thanks.

 

[DaveyB]

Jeez, if he was that close to the van, thank god it was only the mirror, k**bhead could have taken out the whole side of the van. If you have power folding mirrors, there has recently been a couple of threads on here about using the T5 mirrors and a separately sourced control box to make them fold on alarm activation (as its not possible 'yet' with the T6 components), may be worth a looksee if you've got to replace one anyway.

 

[Flash]

DaveyB at the time looking on the positives, that was exactly the response that I gave to my wife, could have been the whole side needing repair, still gutted that the t--t didn't stop for any length of time!

 

[Caravellet6]

Did you get his number, failing to stop is an offence....

 

[Flash]

Caravellet6, unfortunately not, for the brief moment that he stopped I could not read his plate, in fact I'm not even sure that it was a standard (legal) plate.

 

[Markey]

Whats the easiest way to unclip the rear cap (No13) without breaking anything

 

[PVE]

I also hit something with my right mirror. So I just want to know, is it possible to remove only that rear cap since that is a bit displaced? And like the above question any suggestions for the novice?

 

[Markey]

Just changed mine and are a bit of a pain to do so have plenty of patience to hand

Tip the glass forward, reach in the top and pull toward you and it will pop off, 2 wires to pull off the glass too (heated)

2 small torx screws then to remove holding piece 11 and 6 together

Then the whole 3 pieces 6,11 & 13 are just clipped together

Get some trim tools and start pulling them apart (not easy and you may break some clips)

 

[Vinci]

Heres the ETKA diagram each numbered piece is available individually, i have prices for most of the pieces, let me know what bits and i can give you an idea of cost

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Pauly, may have prices for parts 6 and 13 from your wing mirror expanded diagram, many thanks

 

[Pauly]

I’m away from computer send me a pm to remind me and will sort it tomo
The bottom trim is about £6-7 and the top case primed is twenty odd quid I think

 

[WheelieBealie]

A complete genuine VW one with aerials (model dependant) is around £300-400 unpainted

To be honest that's not too bad a price all in, I had someone do the same on my Qashqai mirror (when I had it) and that was over £500, that was also heated, auto-fold but also had puddle lights, indicators and a camera in it.