PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSED what a day loud typers Engine management light slowing me down while overtaking a lorry then i get home think "lets just park up and go relax" Until i reverse down the hill theres a bar right on the edge of the pavement BOOM!! Wingmirror comes off and smashes top piece... $%&u%$%^%%^£!!!~~~~~~~~~!&"£^$%^**!!!! Now i have a red wingmirror with the top piece shattered if i glue it its going to look so bad compared to my car i looked on ebay but they only have electric ones its a corsa b red 1999 breeze anyone have any ideas how i can sort this out
Which bit of the mirror is actually broken? The cover on the outside or the mechanism inside? You could either: a) Get a replacement of the wrong colour and spray it up yourself the right colour. b) Buy a pair of non-colour-coded ones and replace both. Personally I'd stop worrying about the wing mirror and get the engine sorted.
yeh could have been bad guy honked at me but all i was tying to do was get past to avoid an accident i found an electric one on ebay im wondering if they use the same casing as the manual ones if so i guess i could replace it
I wouldn't count on it, there might not be the same routing for the cabling on the manual adjuster through it.
Think i might give a crack at glueing i place it together and it seemed to leave a very fine crack line The mirrors where muffed when i got the car think he lived out in the sticks so a replacement for both of them might not be a bad idea one day probebly drove through tight country lanes loads of lash marks on the mirrors nothing else Im laughing about it now a little bit because i've never reacted like that before in public jumping out the car i shouted "I new it was a bad ****ing idea them putting a new telephone pole here don't they know im a **** driver!!" don't think the neighbours probebly will be all that impressed im suprised nobody came out and saw what i done The engine management is a bit of a pain might be taking it back to get the sellers garage to check it out seeming its under warranty that truck driver was not impressed
Haha @ the Kalms... Take a few did we? Try phoning round local scrapyards or at least pop along to a few, you never know. Ebay is your best bet I would imagine so just keep looking and in the mean while try and fix up your current one so at least you can use it. Don't worry about aesthetics - its a Corsa.
Rofl nope thats my sisters for her test Was thinking scrappy ebay only have electric ones i think i can fix it to look not much different with my amazing skills Corsa bashing
Just google car spare parts and enter the details of what you want in one or two of the resulting websites. You can choose how they contact you and a search is done over quite a few scrapyard/breakers yards. I've had a few bits for my old Laguna and a bit for my Micra so far and saved half the price on the last part I bought.
Heres the fix Pretty happy with it well looks better on my car than it did on my kitchen table anyway... when i clean it next i will go over the cracks with chipstick and buff it with more polish to make it less obvious
Dude that's so barely obvious I'd just leave it! At least, if it crunches again it'll break on the glue lines and be easy to repair again. Nice job fixing it up
Thanks yeh im not going to replace it until i find two of the same in red used nice and cheap which won't be for a while so i can replace them both
Why i outta... Taking it to a guy i went to school with see whats up with the engine management light see what he can do...
Don't you guys have breakers yards over there? When I did that to my old car (driving out through narrow barriers at night with a hedge covering one side of the barrier) I just went to the local breakers yard and got a second hand motorized heated wing mirror for £25.
If it happens again: Hell, just do it anyway. Get enough and cover the entire car in it, and it'll be indestructable. It'll bounce of other objects you drive into.
I was considering a scrap yard its definately something i will have to do eventually the mirror does'nt adjust right were i want it so its pissing me off a little. My car is red though but not faded so i want to find the right colour so it does'nt look odd My friend done that to his mirror it looked so stupid although he done alot more damage than i did its holding like a million pieces together in a frail deformed package Little update on the engine took it to a old school friend who looked at it he brought his mate around who happened to have a flow sensor and they tested it out took it for a test drive and it felt different could'nt get it to do the engine management light. It done a judder when i took my foot of the accelator and re applied i think that might be the engine working as it should (its a eco tech) Put the old one back in and reved the engine it sounded laggy and slow almost weezy New one in and it came alive! it sounded like a different car so i paid the guy £40 for it which i thought was a fair price Put my foot to the floor today and still could'nt get it to do engine management, will take it on the link road when i get home and push it going up slight hills that will be the true test but its certainly a different car, got alot more power to it
