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Mk5 Experts: Mirror question...
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:00 pm
by Speedlaw
Hi everyone,
Quick question on your nice mirrors... Did they ever sell manually operated mirrors in the UK? I've spoken to a dealer in London and he thought they only ever fitted Mk5's with powered mirrors. Is he right? Am I screwed?
(I counted on the availability of them, now I've spent lots of cash for nowt)
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:31 pm
by Josh_PoloGTi
AFAIK they all had electric powered mirrors.
Do you have manual?
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:42 pm
by Speedlaw
No I've got the powered ones myself (mk4) but I'm trying to fit the facelift version on mine. To minimize expenses I went for manual mirrors, but it seems to have backfired on me. Bugger.
So now I've got one useless right-side small manual mirror.
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 2:28 am
by polo2k
manual here
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:41 am
by Speedlaw
Yeah Ash, I know cars on the continent have manual mirrors, but I wanted the UK version. I.e. the small left hand side version... Which isn't available. Anywhere.
Oh well, I'll figure it out somehow.
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:18 pm
by polo2k
id think that you could get the continental internals and put them in the uk mirrors and if you do that tell ma how much you want for the internals
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:15 pm
by Speedlaw
Well I've thought about that (i.e. big left side internals into small housing), but I seriously doubt that it'll be easy.
The internals can be bought in either a small (135mm) or a big (165mm) version, so that's probably for a good reason.
If I were to mod it, it would have to be spot on, so the mirror glass would fit exactly in the center of the housing, any rubbing and it would pop off after a big bump.
I think I'll go for a powered one on the left (small) and a manual one on the right. Sounds naff, but I've already got the right manual one, so that's why. I consider it 'Out of the box thinking'.
