Some lovely person clipped my driver's side mirror. Only the glass is shattered. The rest of the mirror is just fine. The dealer tells me to replace the whole mirror, which costs $150 just for the part. But my mechanic suggested maybe just replacing the glass. The mirrors are heated, so would removing the broken glass and gluing new glass effect the heating mechanism? Is there a proper way to go about doing this? What would you do?

 

Thanks.

Some lovely person clipped my driver's side mirror. Only the glass is shattered. The rest of the mirror is just fine. The dealer tells me to replace the whole mirror, which costs $150 just for the part. But my mechanic suggested maybe just replacing the glass. The mirrors are heated, so would removing the broken glass and gluing new glass effect the heating mechanism? Is there a proper way to go about doing this? What would you do?

 

Thanks.

This happened to old car of mine ( non heated mirrors). I had an auto glass specialist replace just the mirror, moreover it was substantialy cheaper then then the whole unit, and they even cut it to fit.

John

This happened to old car of mine ( non heated mirrors). I had an auto glass specialist replace just the mirror, moreover it was substantialy cheaper then then the whole unit, and they even cut it to fit.

John

 

i've done the same thing. Go to a windsheild place they can do it.

 

nipper