remove mirror reflectors
#1
remove mirror reflectors
I bought a set of the black blanks to replace the orange reflectors on my mirrors...read a bunch of the posts here and sounded like they pry out fairly easy but didn't have much luck. Any tips/tricks/recommendations on popping out the mirror reflectors?
#2
Senior Member
Originally Posted by 12platinum
I bought a set of the black blanks to replace the orange reflectors on my mirrors...read a bunch of the posts here and sounded like they pry out fairly easy but didn't have much luck. Any tips/tricks/recommendations on popping out the mirror reflectors?
#3
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Get a thin/small flat head screw driver and carefully pry between the reflector and the side mirror on the curved side of the reflector. Basically all the way on the end of the reflector, on the curve side, is where to pry. I do it all the time to clean it out and clean across my LED's I installed inside my reflectors.
The tabs on the curved side are much shorter than the longer tab on the flat side of the reflector.
The tabs on the curved side are much shorter than the longer tab on the flat side of the reflector.
#5
Any links to the black blanks or LEDs?
Can you guys point me to the black blanks and/or LEDs?
As long as I'm pulling the mirrors...has anybody found a way to run heat to the mirrors? I hate that they always fog up now that weather is getting colder. There is obviously a power source to the mirrors for turn signal and power fold.
As long as I'm pulling the mirrors...has anybody found a way to run heat to the mirrors? I hate that they always fog up now that weather is getting colder. There is obviously a power source to the mirrors for turn signal and power fold.
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Originally Posted by Madtown
Can you guys point me to the black blanks and/or LEDs?
As long as I'm pulling the mirrors...has anybody found a way to run heat to the mirrors? I hate that they always fog up now that weather is getting colder. There is obviously a power source to the mirrors for turn signal and power fold.
As long as I'm pulling the mirrors...has anybody found a way to run heat to the mirrors? I hate that they always fog up now that weather is getting colder. There is obviously a power source to the mirrors for turn signal and power fold.
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#9
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Originally Posted by Madtown
Did platinums or lariats come with heated mirrors? I don't want the extended tow mirrors.
#10
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Get a thin/small flat head screw driver and carefully pry between the reflector and the side mirror on the curved side of the reflector. Basically all the way on the end of the reflector, on the curve side, is where to pry. I do it all the time to clean it out and clean across my LED's I installed inside my reflectors.
The tabs on the curved side are much shorter than the longer tab on the flat side of the reflector.
The tabs on the curved side are much shorter than the longer tab on the flat side of the reflector.
Can you guys point me to the black blanks and/or LEDs?
As long as I'm pulling the mirrors...has anybody found a way to run heat to the mirrors? I hate that they always fog up now that weather is getting colder. There is obviously a power source to the mirrors for turn signal and power fold.
As long as I'm pulling the mirrors...has anybody found a way to run heat to the mirrors? I hate that they always fog up now that weather is getting colder. There is obviously a power source to the mirrors for turn signal and power fold.
I believe the xlt's do to. I bought a set of heated, power, with the turn signal off of a member of this site. In the trades and sales section, He was swapping to tow mirrors, Then found the climate control with the defrost button on Ebay. I did a write up on it, if you end up going that route.
I wanted to add the signal lights ( both front and back sides ) as well as puddle lamps ( which I was going to make my own anyway ) but, as I started pricing out the costs of the reflectors and the pop in signal lights it was expensive to purchase OEM stuff.
As luck would have it I came across someone locally selling off both power mirror assemblies from his 2 week old F150 after upgrading to tow mirrors. These have the reflectors , signals , heated and auto dimming --- got them for $80 each ( the planets were aligned that day ) so it was a no brainer.
This made my life a lot easier --installed the LED strips ( signal mod ) -- trimmed out the reflectors --- made up and installed the puddle lamps -- swapped out the mirror assemblies. Since the mirror assembly already had the majority of wiring this made things easy and neater to simply plug into the existing wire harness -- exception was the puddle lamps which was the only thing I had to splice and connect into the harnees for.
I'm thinking of biting the bullet and purchasing a replacent climate control module to activate the heated mirrors.