I swung out too far on a left turn last week, and I knocked the mirror off on a trashcan. I ordered a replacement from eBay, took the inside door panel off, unscrewed the old one, screwed the new one in, and put the door panel back together.

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[–] 21 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I was surprised how uncomplicated replacing those turned out to be. I was really expecting to never be able to get the door panel back on, but it wasn't that bad

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm tempted to add sound deadening to my car interior, but my fear of door panels has stopped me.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    I’ve even worked on a BMW door panel and they’re not the worst. Most difficulty is in dealing with the inevitable clips that you’ll probably need to replace a couple of and the black pasty goo they use to stick the plastic on the door.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm guessing it's more difficult if you have power running to the mirror.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Even thats not that bad, on my car with power mirrors it was a cable that had a plug inside the frame of the door under the door card with a connector.

    I swapped the mirror clamshell and new glass onto the mechanism of the broken one and everything was fine.

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