Another Crappy Chinese “Restoration” Part
Drivers side remote mirror
Bought it 2 years ago, so warranty is out, but car is still in project stage, hasn’t been out of the garage yet.
3 issues
1, installed the mirror and noticed the control lever movement doesn’t relate to the mirror movement. Compared to the original- the red, green, yellow cables are crimped into the wrong locations.
2, After opening/closing the door a few times, at one point I noticed the control “joystick” seemed to be gone, yet the bezel ring was still in place. WTF? Turns out, not enough material for them to peen the pot metal to hold it together. Pictured compared to original.
At this point I Contacted Dantes Parts describing both problems and the response was “we haven’t had any problems with those, but we’ll let our supplier know.” So I came up with a way to hold it together, & got it installed.
Now problem 3
I went to adjust mirror and heard POP, and joystick stuck in down position. One of the cables came un-crimped from the slug that holds it in the adjuster.
Original works perfectly for 55 years, just looks like crap. Guess I’m going to try to put original parts into new chrome housing, worst case, it becomes a manual adjust or fixed position.
Drivers side remote mirror
Bought it 2 years ago, so warranty is out, but car is still in project stage, hasn’t been out of the garage yet.
3 issues
1, installed the mirror and noticed the control lever movement doesn’t relate to the mirror movement. Compared to the original- the red, green, yellow cables are crimped into the wrong locations.
2, After opening/closing the door a few times, at one point I noticed the control “joystick” seemed to be gone, yet the bezel ring was still in place. WTF? Turns out, not enough material for them to peen the pot metal to hold it together. Pictured compared to original.
At this point I Contacted Dantes Parts describing both problems and the response was “we haven’t had any problems with those, but we’ll let our supplier know.” So I came up with a way to hold it together, & got it installed.
Now problem 3
I went to adjust mirror and heard POP, and joystick stuck in down position. One of the cables came un-crimped from the slug that holds it in the adjuster.
Original works perfectly for 55 years, just looks like crap. Guess I’m going to try to put original parts into new chrome housing, worst case, it becomes a manual adjust or fixed position.
