Vanity mirror cover repair
#1
05-28-2016, 05:04 AM
Vanity mirror cover repair
I suspect this will seal my reputation for using 'alternative' techniques to effect repairs (such as using sewer pipe tomake tools for removing S-Type fuel pumps, as previously reported), but sometimes ‘alternative’ works a treat!
Have you ever had an S-Type vanity mirror cover come off in your hand? When my car got to about ten years old, this happened on both sides. In both cases one of the lugs, which hold the cover in the sunvisor and act as its pivot, sheared off. I found myself thinking the lugs were about the same diameter as my wife’s bamboo food skewers and, furthermore, the moulding of the cover has reinforcing on the inside, behind the lugs. So I got out the trusty Dremel and drilled a 3mm hole right through the cover along the centre-line of the old lug. I then sanded a skewer so that it would just slide through thehole. I cut about a 10mm length. So I had made myself a 10mm long bamboo pin.
Next came the slightly tricky bit. You can’t glue the pin in place in the cover before you install the cover into the visor. You have to position the cover in place in the visor and then insert the pin. I slid the pin into the hole and pushed it right through so that the inner end was poking through into the inside ofthe cover and the outer end was flush with the side of the cover. I put a dab of glue on the inside end (I used marine epoxy because I had it on hand, but I would guess almost anything would do). I then installed the cover into the sun visor in its ‘opened’ orientation. I used the flat face of a screwdriver to carefully slide the pin outwards so that it engaged with the hole in the visor. I waited a couple of hours for the epoxy to dry and the job was done.
I didn’t think to take step-by-step photos (sorry), but photos of the finished job should give the general gist. Note that even the lights work again!
Have you ever had an S-Type vanity mirror cover come off in your hand? When my car got to about ten years old, this happened on both sides. In both cases one of the lugs, which hold the cover in the sunvisor and act as its pivot, sheared off. I found myself thinking the lugs were about the same diameter as my wife’s bamboo food skewers and, furthermore, the moulding of the cover has reinforcing on the inside, behind the lugs. So I got out the trusty Dremel and drilled a 3mm hole right through the cover along the centre-line of the old lug. I then sanded a skewer so that it would just slide through thehole. I cut about a 10mm length. So I had made myself a 10mm long bamboo pin.
Next came the slightly tricky bit. You can’t glue the pin in place in the cover before you install the cover into the visor. You have to position the cover in place in the visor and then insert the pin. I slid the pin into the hole and pushed it right through so that the inner end was poking through into the inside ofthe cover and the outer end was flush with the side of the cover. I put a dab of glue on the inside end (I used marine epoxy because I had it on hand, but I would guess almost anything would do). I then installed the cover into the sun visor in its ‘opened’ orientation. I used the flat face of a screwdriver to carefully slide the pin outwards so that it engaged with the hole in the visor. I waited a couple of hours for the epoxy to dry and the job was done.
I didn’t think to take step-by-step photos (sorry), but photos of the finished job should give the general gist. Note that even the lights work again!
Last edited by roger.neill; 05-28-2016 at 05:09 AM.
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Jumpin' Jag Flash (05-29-2016)
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05-29-2016, 08:40 AM
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Here is one with step by step pictures. I used a paint can handle AIR.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/s...ics-faq-69401/
Nice job anyway Roger.
** Edit: I don't know why cut and pasting with my phone won't add clickable link.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/s...ics-faq-69401/
Nice job anyway Roger.
** Edit: I don't know why cut and pasting with my phone won't add clickable link.
Last edited by joycesjag; 05-29-2016 at 08:47 AM.
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