Thought I'd revive this thread as had an interesting experience today.
I took the dead wing mirror off in the hope I could do something. Checked all the feeds using the multimeter (what a handy thing - should have got one years ago) and they were fine. Opened up the mirror gearbox to see what electrical stuff might have gone AWOL in there. removed the one electrical bit and it turned out to be a switch, with a lug on it that engages in a lughole (obviously) so that it is switched when the mirror reaches full travel (you can just hear the click of it when you open and close the mirrors in fact, now I know there is a switch).
Anyway, there was a slight but definite smell of burnt electrical stuff. The switch had a couple of little electrical components soldered as part of it. I'm no leccie so dont know ehat they are but it seemd to me I might as well take it out and reassemble the mirror. I could then attempt to renovate the switch as there's no chance of buying a new one.
So I unsoldered the green wire, took it out and reassembled the mirror. Whereupon the mirror seemd happy to lock into the open position instead of lfopping about as it had previously. It looks as though it can also be folded manually. A good result as far as I'm concerned.
So, Steve1259 if you havent sorted anything yet, this may give you a solution.
I'm now going ot get in touch with an electrical mate of mine and see if he might look at it and work out what the electrical components are if I post it to him. If so, he could see if he can get the switch working 'on the bench' then I could nip over and we could try and reinstate it in the mirror one weekend.
My only worry is why did it go in the first place. Its as though something overloaded and triggered it off but I cant think what, and why didnt a fuse blow if so. Better ask my mate to get some spare components in case it goes again on reinstall.
I've put a pic or two of the littler blighter at:
http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x259 ... 010458.jpg
and
http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x259 ... 0457_1.jpg
and
http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x259 ... 0456_2.jpg
for those interested.
Mike
). Sure enough the plastic shaft had let go. But this time the locating lug at the top had snapped up, presenting a very tricky job esp. as I have lost all my v small drill bits and dont have a good minidrill either. But Using a magnifying glass and some v delicate work, I actually managed to drill the lug and the shift and pin/glue it back with araldite. I sleeved the lug locating barrel in brss tube as per the nearside in any case, to strengthen it against splitting (weakest link etc).
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