Door mirror glass loose

[Dave]

The glass in the door mirrors is now a little ’loose’ ie the glass vibrates as you drive. It seems well attached, bit what its attached to has gone sloppy. Any thoughts?

 

[Towpack]

This happened to mine a while back. IIRC the mirror sits on a backing plate with two slots at the top which hook onto two lugs and is secured at the bottom underneath with a screw. The backing plate on mine had broken round one of the slots so I made a small plate with a slot in it from thin aluminium sheet and screwed/glued it to the backing plate. Been OK since.

 

[Dave]

Great, I’ll take a look. How do you remove the glass to access what lies behind?

 

[Towpack]

There's a hole in the base of the mirror housing to access the locating screw.

 

[frank rabbets]

Yes the little plastic holders break. I drilled a hole in mine and pushed a steel holding pin in.

 

[essexpete]

Same here, removed and glued/bodged a lug. Left hand one just fell apart, righthand had a coming together.

 

[Dave]

It happened rather quickly - one day good, next day shaking. Thanks for the advice.

 

[LandLocked93]

Couple options:
1 - I used pipe dope, the purple and orange combo for pvc pipe. Applied in layers about 45 mins apart, it creates a 'globby stiffness' with some pliability. Allowed the post to be glued back together but then also take new screw that could be tightened quite a bit.

2 - Bracket to fix shakey mirror on FJ80, FZJ80, LX450 with bottom reinforcement - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club]