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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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
I'm tempted to add sound deadening to my car interior, but my fear of door panels has stopped me.
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.
I'm guessing it's more difficult if you have power running to the mirror.
i ended up replacing the mirrors of several other people who were putting off getting new ones, and the powered ones were slightly more complicated, but still not terrible
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.
It was a simple plug.
It's pretty trivial. After my friend was hit by a deer, we ordered the mirror and had it installed in about 20 minutes, including the time looking for a clip that popped.
i think most of the time was watching a youtube video of someone doing it to build up confidence