Power Folding Mirrors Help-, pass. mirror get stuck on closing Options

[eggman40]

wired mine up today and the drivers side opens and closes perfectly. My pass. side opens perfectly but on the close cyle it get stuck. i hear a clicking sound like its the plastic gear thats slipping. Unless i help it close, it will continue to click continuously. Took it appart but didnt know how to get into the gearbox...


any suggestions? maybe grease in a certain spot? was i screwed on my mirrors?? thanks for any help.

[gt_driFFter]

This is exactly what happened to me! I took the entire mirror apart, including the box that has all of the gears in it. I would not recomend this, as there are 5 or 6 different sized gears that have to go in a certain order. At this point, I was not expecting to even use this mirror, I was just curious to see what was going on. I somehow managed to get the gears in all the right order, and put it back together and it worked! Then I tested it 20+ times, still worked great. Until I accidentally hooked it up to where it tried to open when it was already open, so it "hyperextended" and went backwards. When I put it back to the normal position it did the same stuff as before: clicked really loud and didn't move unless I pulled on it a little. I'm getting a replacement mirror sent to me, as it didn't work in the first place and it was just a fluke that I got it to work temporarily. Knowing my luck, I would've painted and intstalled them, and then a week later it would've stopped working!

This post has been edited by gt_driFFter: Nov 9, 2008 - 12:54 AM