OW! Great engineering, GM: fold in with a push button but break
when hitting an obstacle. DUH!

I once scraped a left (passenger side) mirror off a rented Vauxhall in
Wales when an approaching huge Volvo truck assumed that I was as
skilled a driver as he and could get by with the millimeters of road
he deigned to allow me. The passenger side of the road was a rock
wall. Mirror, meet wall. Bye!

I was delighted to discover upon visit to a Vauxhall dealer that a
replacement mirror cost about 15 pounds. Phew!

I tried those slide-on towing mirrors with my '97 Chev and had the
same problem: they wouldn't stay put at highway speed. I found some
other towing mirrors that hook with nylon straps to the window and
door bottom that work quite well. I miss the big "West Coast"
mirrors I had on the Blazer, but I didn't want to drill holes in the
doors of my new truck some years ago, and still don't. Those sites
*wlll* rust. I ended up brazing brass threaded insert mirror mounts
into the doors of the Blazer when I was gonna paint it anyway. That
worked.




On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 03:06:59 GMT, Jeff Williams
wrote:

Hello,

I don't know how to tighten them but I will warn you, don't break them!
My father is a parts department manager for a GM dealer and I
witnessed someone ask my dad for one that he had broke. The non-heated
one was close to $500.00 (Canadian) and the full-monty version (like
what yours is I think if you have the LEDs in it too) was close to
$800.00!!! I thought the guy was going to faint. Seems his wife wasn't
watching moving the truck and wacked the mirror off on the side of the barn.

Jeff

Craig Suslosky wrote:
I have a 2003 GMC 2500HD extended cab truck with heated,electric
mirrors (they fold in when you push a button) They work great but they
are a touch loose when I put my slide over towing mirrors on, they
move a little at highway speed. Does anyone know how to tighten these
up or should I call the dealer? I guess they are not to tight due to
the fact that they fold in electrically.
Thanks,
Craig