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Making new wingmirrors
Written by dl_page on 3/30/2012 at 09:36 am

Hi everyone,

Just a quick rant. After shattering one wingmirror and with a second damaged, I
have finally found, a pair of used, but complete wingmirrors, over here in
France. Total cost for the pair : 500 euros - about 670 dollars...

So this sort of hacked me off, and I still have all of the parts (well almost)
for the outer shell, inner frame, indicator and tear off mount.

Last weekend, I took them all apart, and cleaned them, and bought some
self-hardning modellers clay. I want to make negatives of all the parts, then
attempt to cast them in resin. If that works , I believe that I could reproduce
mirros for the cost of a 30 buck tin of resin...

Another thing. The wingmirror assembly itself works, but I cannot seem to find
anyone who sells compatible glass... so after shopping around, it would seem, at
least for the right wingmirror, the ones used by Volkswagen for the 2001-2004
Bora (Jetta) & Golf left wingmirrors are of a very similar size and would fit in
the shell without too much trouble.

For a right wingmirror, this is more of a problem. On the Bora and Golf, for
civilised-hand-drive cars, the mirrors are assymetrical, and left mirror is
about double the size... Maybe looking for English and Japanese-hand drive
versions where VW reversed the mirrors?

Anyway, this weekend, I'm going mouldmaking!

Cheers,
Daniel