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#1 kmidderigh

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Posted 19 July 2014 - 11:50 AM

This crack appeared the other day on my drivers side mirror pillar :   https://www.dropbox....6c/DSC01771.JPG   wondering how it got there ? someone thumped the mirror ? stress crack due to driving repeatedly at 'some miles per hour' :-)   doesnt seem loose if i waggle it a bit - worth reparing ?

Edited by CocoPops, 20 July 2014 - 09:23 AM.


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Posted 20 July 2014 - 08:17 AM

Looks like the miror may have been smacked?

does it enlarge if you pull the mirror back?



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Posted 20 July 2014 - 08:40 AM

:yeahthat:

If it does, open it up then squirt in some structural adhesive.



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Posted 20 July 2014 - 09:13 AM

I'm sure that is normal... It's where the door skin meets the door panel. There is normally a body coloured sticker over the top.

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Posted 20 July 2014 - 09:22 AM

Like so...
(Ignore the red box but you can see the sticker shape)
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Posted 20 July 2014 - 02:52 PM

good info   :)



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Posted 20 July 2014 - 05:36 PM

Hard to tell because of the reflections but it looks much more like a surface crack to me. It runs down nearer the middle and has a much more jagged line than those straight cut protective vinyl pieces.

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Posted 20 July 2014 - 05:38 PM

In the op pic, the cut vinyl is missing. Go and have a look at your doors, they should have the vinyl piece. I wonder if the op compared his two doors the other one should have the vinyl.

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Posted 20 July 2014 - 05:55 PM

Like so...
(Ignore the red box but you can see the sticker shape)
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The door cars and triangles in carbon looks amazing!

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Posted 20 July 2014 - 06:06 PM

did you really need to quote the photos?



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Posted 21 July 2014 - 04:54 PM

great info - thanks - spot on - sticker missing from drivers side due to recent re-spray of the door. Present on passenger side.

 

(crack doesn't widen under pressure)

 

Don't suppose you can get a replacement sticker ? otherwise guess a bit of black vinyl will do....







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