Driving home from work this evening down a rather narrow lane, doing about 25-30mph as there are so many potholes and blind bends.
Some
in a 3 Series comes steaming along in the opposite direction, fails to get over far enough and smashes my driver's door mirror to pieces. The ****** didn't even slow down. ![[:@]](/forums/styles/seatcupra/oldforumsmileys/furious.gif "Furious [:@]")
So now I have a very attractive piece of broken glass dangling from my drivers door, and a door mirror with all its innards on display.
Thankfully it seems not to have done any damage to the door, and although it took one hell of a whack, what's left of the mirror seems to still work. It folds, and if i hold the glass gently to it I can still move it up and down electrically (although I'm not sure whether left and right works though).
The entire plastic casing is gone, but the metal guts of it all seems to be there.
If I can get away with just needing new glass and a new casing, what do you guys reckon I should be looking at price-wise (including painting)? The mirrors are (were) the heated electric folding type, and it's a pre-facelift Cupra so they are the squarer Golf ones.
Alternatively if the motor(s) in the mirror needs replacing too, how much is that likely to push the cost up by?
Also how do I remove the glass? It seems to be wired in - presumably for the heating element, but the wires don't appear to be spaded. I don't really fancy just leaving the glass dangling there scratching my door!
I think (and hope) that I got off fairly lightly. I should be thankful that the Beemer didn't actually front-end me, seeing as he was that close, and going one hell of a pace. I'm still royally pi$$ed off though
From the front:
From the back:
My car is my baby - I love her to bits... and in 10 years of driving this is the first accident of any kind of description I've ever had. I know it's really minor when compared to what some of you peeps have been through, but I'm still properly upset! This is also by far and away the nicest car I've ever owned, which makes it all the more heartbreaking!
Some
in a 3 Series comes steaming along in the opposite direction, fails to get over far enough and smashes my driver's door mirror to pieces. The ****** didn't even slow down. So now I have a very attractive piece of broken glass dangling from my drivers door, and a door mirror with all its innards on display.
Thankfully it seems not to have done any damage to the door, and although it took one hell of a whack, what's left of the mirror seems to still work. It folds, and if i hold the glass gently to it I can still move it up and down electrically (although I'm not sure whether left and right works though).
The entire plastic casing is gone, but the metal guts of it all seems to be there.
If I can get away with just needing new glass and a new casing, what do you guys reckon I should be looking at price-wise (including painting)? The mirrors are (were) the heated electric folding type, and it's a pre-facelift Cupra so they are the squarer Golf ones.
Alternatively if the motor(s) in the mirror needs replacing too, how much is that likely to push the cost up by?
Also how do I remove the glass? It seems to be wired in - presumably for the heating element, but the wires don't appear to be spaded. I don't really fancy just leaving the glass dangling there scratching my door!
I think (and hope) that I got off fairly lightly. I should be thankful that the Beemer didn't actually front-end me, seeing as he was that close, and going one hell of a pace. I'm still royally pi$$ed off though
From the front:
From the back:
My car is my baby - I love her to bits... and in 10 years of driving this is the first accident of any kind of description I've ever had. I know it's really minor when compared to what some of you peeps have been through, but I'm still properly upset! This is also by far and away the nicest car I've ever owned, which makes it all the more heartbreaking!
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