Like a jagoff, I broke both my side mirrors

[Spook50]

...while trying to push the mirror itself back onto the pivot ball on the motor. There is no good way to remove the glass from the entire assembly. They pop off of the socket easy as anything, which made me think it would go in almost as easily after I repainted the housings. No such luck. Now the socket on the glass mount panel for my right side mirror is broken so I need to go get a whole new assembly, and I have to go to an auto glass joint around here to see if they can do me up with new mirror glass by morning, when I have to drive back to the base.

I am so fawkin pissed right now it ain't even funny. Hopefully that was my only f'ed-up-lika-a-big-dumb-oaf moment for the year.

 

[haryv]

with that usaf income should be no issue.

BTW, dont do like I did in the usaf, use all my money and burn it away. I should have invested it when I was young.

BTW we all make mistakes. live and learn.

 

[lowtideride]

Ive broken my mirrors off so many times i have given up on them. I run with out them. Ya get use to it.

Friggin trees, rocks, brother, garage.

cheer up bro...

 

[Tinker]

Spook -
Probably too late now, but any decent auto glass shop should handle Burco mirror blanks. I'm @ home now so I can't look up the part #s, but they make them specifically for the 62 (go by year). If you can't find them, PM me with your nearest, largest city & I'll find a fellow PPG Prostars dealer for you & call them to tell them what you need.

 

[toddslater]

Spook for years we did the folded up paper wedge thing to hold our mirror (drivers side in our case) in place. From that, after it became fairly annoying to keep replacing the paper wads, we graduated to laying a nice bead of black silicon (top and inside edges IIRC) to hold it in place. You can even get some of the electro adjustments...just don't get too greedy. Anywho, this can get you by in a pinch until a more price friendly used one comes along.

 

[Spook50]

Spook -
Probably too late now, but any decent auto glass shop should handle Burco mirror blanks. I'm @ home now so I can't look up the part #s, but they make them specifically for the 62 (go by year). If you can't find them, PM me with your nearest, largest city & I'll find a fellow PPG Prostars dealer for you & call them to tell them what you need.

Way ahead of ya bro. I buggered up the right side mirror housing so just glass wouldn't cut it, but I managed to get a perfect condition used assembly for 150 bucks from Nix99. And there's an auto glass place in Bothell that'll charge me 30 bucks for a new PPG mirror specific for my 62, installed. All in all, only about a fifth what I thought I'd have to spend, so I'm much happier now. Just gotta scoot the hood repaint back a little more

This whole mirror thing reminds me of a killer prank I played on a buddy of mine in college too...

 

[sandcruiser]

my wife underestimated the strength of a cactus here, now we lack a passenger side mirror. The glass is only cracked a little... but it appears that something is missing from the "breakaway" part (where it usually just lays flat)... like maybe there should be a ball or something.

Can this be fixed? Ah, shoot, I'll see if I can find a picture

 

[Skniper]

I got a pretty cheap complete d-side fj62 mirror doing "Buy it Now" on eBay. Used my mirror assm and the other one to make one complete good unit....but only after I broke the s*** outta a those little telescoping ratchet thingys working thru my learning curve of power window technology.

Stupid mistake...pissed me off, now all I got is spare crap. Although, the "New" mirror works great....and no more wobbly glass.