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Making new wingmirrors
Written by dl_page on 3/31/2012 at 09:48 am

In this day and age of "off the shelf" parts, I never thought if that!!!

Need coffee :)

--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "David" <david.dockstader@...> wrote:
>
> If all you need is the glass you should be able to find a mirror shop that
will make a mirror to fit. I've had mirrors made here in Louisville quite
inexpensively.
>
> As far as making the shells, I've had a similar thought. For years I was
involved in the composite canoe and kayak business and it would be quite simple
and inexpensive to make molds of the shells in fiberglass and reproduce them in
fiberglass, kevlar, carbon fiber or whatever. When you say cast them in resin I
presume this is what you mean. I don't think I'd try resin alone without fiber
reinforcement.
>
> --- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Page" <dl_page@> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>