Humph ... my good start to the weekend has been somewhat stuffed by some twonk hitting my passenger side wing mirror. I now need replacement glass and the backing plate (the main body of the wing mirror is fine).
Went to halfords, who said (a) it would need the glass cutting to fit due to the year / model of car, and (b) that they didn't sell the backing plates anyway. Suggested looking on the Internet, which I've tried doing but am now confused! (not hard - I am useless at car stuff)
So - anyone know where I can buy a replacement glass and backing plate for a passenger side wing mirror on a 2008 skoda fabia?
(next time I'm just going to stick to riding my bike at weekends ...)
ebay, there are loads of them, less than a tenner.
A good big-ish motor factors shop would be worth a ring. If they are local I would try [url= http://http://www.gsfcarparts.com/branches.html ]GSF car parts[/url], our local branch is excellent and friendly and probably have a much-cheaper-than-skoda (but fits the same) one in stock.
Is it electric heated type?
Nick one off a nother skoda, seems as if someone already does, 2 neighbours have had their wing mirrors nicked, one off a vauxhall and another off a renault.
DD - not heated or electic.
Project - I don't think I'd be very good at nicking them, I'd probably have to ask someone first how to remove them!
Try wingmirrorman.co.uk Sue. Plug your details in and they'll get back to you with a quote. That's what I did. There are loads for sale where you simply stick the new one onto the old one but that only works if the old one is cracked and still there.
Local Scrap yard for best price
Thing is with local scrappie, wing mirrors are nearly always the first things to be sold from a broken car. I've found this from recent experience.
Sorted - got one from wingmirrorman.
DD - many thanks! I owe you a pint if we ever meet 🙂
PS - this is why STW is great, especially when you're a car-numpty girl!
Woo. I love it when a plan comes together. No worries Sue.
Don't understand why you didn't go with to the first reply! 😕
wingmirrorman is quite expensive, I recently bought replacement wing mirror glass for a Vauxhall from Ebay for well less than a tenner posted next day. (£7 IIRC)
Someone broke mine last week too. 🙁
Still just about functional, glass shattered one end. Backing plate is fine but need a new cover as well as glass. Electrics still work but don't know if I can replace the cover separately or not.
GW - MemberDon't understand why you didn't go with to the first reply!
in this case yes, (depending on how soon you want your mirror fixed) but if i did that every time i asked something in this forum, I would probably be living in vietnam driving my kids named Theolodius and Melody around in an lwb defender listening to some awful guitar bobbins music. etc.
Sorry if you're put out I didn't say "Don't understand why you didn't go with the [b]second[/b] reply!"
not everyone has a motor factors within a sensible distance of their home but most will probably have a letterbox 😉
it's not like it's even a legal requirement to have 3 mirrors on your car so it's hardly urgent.