Graham wrote:
> Just knocked the RH power mirror off my LS2 2000
> when driving into the garage & getting distracted
> momentarily. Been going in there in various cars for 45 years
> without a mishap til now.
> Anyway, it looked like the mirror was made to
> pop off with little damage. The only damage was
> to the plastic mounting plate on the car body.
> Turns out that even though the mirror, casing & motors were sound
> & controllable, with only a scrape mark on the paint.
> the whole assembly had to be replaced at a cost of
> CDN $300.

ouch. 140$US for a power mirror on a 98SL2. I tried going around a
goof (two lanes, one usually had parked cars tho) riding his brakes
doing 15 in a 35 one morning (I was late) and clocked one of those big
green trashcans that was too close to the road with my passenger side
mirror. Left a permanent mark in the pass. side door glass.

The entire unit had to be replaced, even tho it was fine except for the
mirror housing's threaded plastic bolt mounting receptacles were snapped
- as it appeared to be designed to do to prevent serious damage to the
vehicle. Took about a 1/2 (.5) second to destroy, 5 minutes and 140$ to
replace. Figures.

-rj
98SL2