Mirror Removal
04-19-2008, 11:13 AM
#22
Race Director
DON'T REMOVE THE MIRROR! I've done 3 Invisicord installs and on every one removing the wire harness clip from the mirror is the hardest part.
Tilt the mirror (drivers side down and out). With your left hand depress the clip at the top of the plug and wiggle, twist and pull. It will come out! On the last install yesterday on my '08 re-installing the plug after placing the Invisicord taps was as difficult as removing it.
Between the V1 install, the Homelink garage door remote (The Owners Manual doesn't have a clue, I had to call Lear for the process) and the Nav. set up I've got about 8 hours into the change from the '05 already.
Tilt the mirror (drivers side down and out). With your left hand depress the clip at the top of the plug and wiggle, twist and pull. It will come out! On the last install yesterday on my '08 re-installing the plug after placing the Invisicord taps was as difficult as removing it.
Between the V1 install, the Homelink garage door remote (The Owners Manual doesn't have a clue, I had to call Lear for the process) and the Nav. set up I've got about 8 hours into the change from the '05 already.
04-19-2008, 12:24 PM
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~ for those of you with vibration problems...
this may help;
"Anyways, I took both mirrors today to a local place near me which installs customs parts on pickups/vans etc. Its not a garage per se and they do not do mechanical work per se. They took pity on me (not to mention they liked my 2007). They took a look at my wiggly mirror. He took a #8 Torx tool and easily unscrewed the 3 torx screws. He took the disk out along with the three pins. The pins were all bent and he took a wrench and straightened them. He put it back together. I took it out to my vette and twisted it in and voila!! its like new again with no wiggles . The rearview mirror with the cam lock on the the mirror and the male on the windshield. Note on the cam lock ring there a 3 tiny circle/bumps (not the torx screws) that fit around the cam's outer male cutouts on the windshield. While those tiny bumps dont actually hold the cam lock on per se, by taking the mirror off and back on and so on, it grinds those bumps down (they are only about 1/16" sticking above the disc when new). If they get worn down they can give the mirror cam a slight loooseness but nowhere as bad as faulty spring pin wiggles. Dont know what GM was smoking when they designed this system. The mirror has a cam that locks it in. Swivel the mirror as if your setting it at about 1/4 to 1/3 turn and then turn the whole thing (like a twist) and the whole shebang will come off. To remount it keep the mirror at that setting angle and then line up the cam at about a 90 degree angle and then turn/twist the cam back on."
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"Anyways, I took both mirrors today to a local place near me which installs customs parts on pickups/vans etc. Its not a garage per se and they do not do mechanical work per se. They took pity on me (not to mention they liked my 2007). They took a look at my wiggly mirror. He took a #8 Torx tool and easily unscrewed the 3 torx screws. He took the disk out along with the three pins. The pins were all bent and he took a wrench and straightened them. He put it back together. I took it out to my vette and twisted it in and voila!! its like new again with no wiggles . The rearview mirror with the cam lock on the the mirror and the male on the windshield. Note on the cam lock ring there a 3 tiny circle/bumps (not the torx screws) that fit around the cam's outer male cutouts on the windshield. While those tiny bumps dont actually hold the cam lock on per se, by taking the mirror off and back on and so on, it grinds those bumps down (they are only about 1/16" sticking above the disc when new). If they get worn down they can give the mirror cam a slight loooseness but nowhere as bad as faulty spring pin wiggles. Dont know what GM was smoking when they designed this system. The mirror has a cam that locks it in. Swivel the mirror as if your setting it at about 1/4 to 1/3 turn and then turn the whole thing (like a twist) and the whole shebang will come off. To remount it keep the mirror at that setting angle and then line up the cam at about a 90 degree angle and then turn/twist the cam back on."
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04-19-2008, 05:55 PM
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this may help;
"Anyways, I took both mirrors today to a local place near me which installs customs parts on pickups/vans etc. Its not a garage per se and they do not do mechanical work per se. They took pity on me (not to mention they liked my 2007). They took a look at my wiggly mirror. He took a #8 Torx tool and easily unscrewed the 3 torx screws. He took the disk out along with the three pins. The pins were all bent and he took a wrench and straightened them. He put it back together. I took it out to my vette and twisted it in and voila!! its like new again with no wiggles . The rearview mirror with the cam lock on the the mirror and the male on the windshield. Note on the cam lock ring there a 3 tiny circle/bumps (not the torx screws) that fit around the cam's outer male cutouts on the windshield. While those tiny bumps dont actually hold the cam lock on per se, by taking the mirror off and back on and so on, it grinds those bumps down (they are only about 1/16" sticking above the disc when new). If they get worn down they can give the mirror cam a slight loooseness but nowhere as bad as faulty spring pin wiggles. Dont know what GM was smoking when they designed this system. The mirror has a cam that locks it in. Swivel the mirror as if your setting it at about 1/4 to 1/3 turn and then turn the whole thing (like a twist) and the whole shebang will come off. To remount it keep the mirror at that setting angle and then line up the cam at about a 90 degree angle and then turn/twist the cam back on."
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"Anyways, I took both mirrors today to a local place near me which installs customs parts on pickups/vans etc. Its not a garage per se and they do not do mechanical work per se. They took pity on me (not to mention they liked my 2007). They took a look at my wiggly mirror. He took a #8 Torx tool and easily unscrewed the 3 torx screws. He took the disk out along with the three pins. The pins were all bent and he took a wrench and straightened them. He put it back together. I took it out to my vette and twisted it in and voila!! its like new again with no wiggles . The rearview mirror with the cam lock on the the mirror and the male on the windshield. Note on the cam lock ring there a 3 tiny circle/bumps (not the torx screws) that fit around the cam's outer male cutouts on the windshield. While those tiny bumps dont actually hold the cam lock on per se, by taking the mirror off and back on and so on, it grinds those bumps down (they are only about 1/16" sticking above the disc when new). If they get worn down they can give the mirror cam a slight loooseness but nowhere as bad as faulty spring pin wiggles. Dont know what GM was smoking when they designed this system. The mirror has a cam that locks it in. Swivel the mirror as if your setting it at about 1/4 to 1/3 turn and then turn the whole thing (like a twist) and the whole shebang will come off. To remount it keep the mirror at that setting angle and then line up the cam at about a 90 degree angle and then turn/twist the cam back on."
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04-20-2008, 04:25 PM
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