Since I live in Khanty-Mansiysk city, winters are cold here and every morning all the windows were covered with frost and ice. After warming up the car, all windows clear up except for the side mirrors, so it was decided to install mirror heating; I bought heating elements (cost 500 per pair). I took off the left mirror from my car brand (there's a donor next to me, his left mirror has no cover glass while the right one does)
What we need:
1) heating elements,
2) double-sided tape for fixing everything,
3) 4 terminals (female connectors),
4) wires (it's better to take thicker ones)
5) tools for disassembling the mirror (cross-head screwdriver, hair dryer and lots of luck)
So I brought the mirror home, started looking at how to remove the mirror element, turning, shining a flashlight into the gap with a light, and saw that there were regular fasteners. With a screwdriver carefully pull out the upper part of the mirror element and voila, it came off. Then take off the plastic frame from the mirror (carefully cut the double-sided tape with a knife), clean the mirror with solvent from tape and dirt, then stick double-sided tape on the back side of the mirror for fixing the heating element so that our mirror doesn't fade. Next, we cut two windows in the plastic frame of the mirror for terminals from the heating element. After this, you can already connect the mirror to the holder. All that's left is to route the wires through standard places so that they don't wear out elsewhere. Removed the cover where the motors are located, with some effort and perseverance, the wires are in place. And it seems everything is done and we can be happy that all that's left is to put the mirror back on its place by clicking two fasteners and that's it. But here exactly was my problem. Started assembling, heated them up with a hair dryer and began pressing on the mirror and... It just breaks… I didn't expect this at all. Called a friend who works in the field of mirrors, windows, basically cuts things to size. He said to buy a spherical mirror from a Kamaz truck. Found one but only as part of the housing (mirrors were not sold separately), had no choice but to buy what was available (cost 350, didn't take photos it wasn't that important). Took my own and Kamaz mirrors to him, next day came back everything was ready and there was almost no difference with mine mirror (the Kamaz one slightly narrows the view). With the right mirror things weren't as simple either, thought I'd do it similarly, went under the mirror with a screwdriver pulling on it and... It also breaks. Saw that around the perimeter there's some kind of glue. Of course, I was upset but had a spare mirror from the donor car; did everything to it and took both mirrors to my friend who installed them in place for me. Big thanks to Sasha! Everything is assembled, can now put them back in place, send wires for heating into the pipe that goes inside the cabin (some difficulties here too, will have to cut somewhere, reach with fingers somewhere to pull out wires). Haven't connected yet, need to install a fuse, as it's still cold outside and the car is standing frozen. Once started up I'll connect in the garage.
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