Door Mirror Silvering Failure

[banjo]

Happy New to you all.

I've had my 1995 LS400 for coming up to one year now. Apart from new tyres and a new Alpine head unit I've had no other expenditure. Done 103,000 miles now and runs as sweet as a nut.

The only problem I've got is the failure of the door mirror silvering gradually creeping up from the bottom of both mirrors. The worst one is the passenger side with now 50% gone. The drivers side is about 25%.

Question is: Can you change just the mirror glass, if so where can you buy them? If not then I'll have to buy both mirror units, presumably from the scrap yard?

Thanks.

[itarumaa]

I did change the glass only, I bought them from eBay, but I in the same time I lost the heating for the glass.

[The Editor]

I did change the glass only, I bought them from ebay, but I in the same time I lost the heating for the glass.

Try Here or.... here.. I have used Wing Mirror Man before for my wifes Mercedes and they were excellent. Glass came with the connections and heater element and was around £25 and took 2 minutes to fit. Mercedes wanted £400 plus for a complete mirror assembly and said the glass wasn't available as a separate part due to safety reasons! I laughed at the parts manager and told him was either lieing or didn't know what he was doing - then walked out.

Anyhoo.... hopefully one of these companies will be able to help you.

Good luck

The Ed