Mercury leak in Gallardo

[Shamile]

Originally Posted by pdisme

Like flip flops vs shoes.

[Bullfighter]

Originally Posted by Shamile

... Yeah...I sure do like that old fashioned toggle switch, forward...dimmed....backward...daylight.

Since I live in FL, I have tint on the VT Roadster and the Testarossa anyway. Headlight glare at night isn't a problem.

I just love over complicated crap for the sake of...over complicated crap...

It does take a lot of effort to move that mirror, though.

Now I wonder if my Audi mirror is due to explode.

[deon.smith]

Originally Posted by happyboy

I live in Southern CA and the temp of 100 plus degrees, did not go well with the 2004 Gallardo, rear view mirror yesterday. I had mercury leak from the mirror and fall on the climate control area, totally peeling off the rubber surface and the the plastic on the buttons now visible.

Is this a common problem. Secondly does anyone know what the rear view mirror and the climate control front panel face plate would cost. I am thin king an arm and a leg

You might want to bid on this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Lambo...item2c51770041

[Flash G]

Originally Posted by mdoan300

Magna-Donnelly is one of the suppliers of auto-dimming mirrors for BMW and it was a fairly common problem w/ the E46 M3 and E39 M5 equipped w/ the M-oval mirror. When my M3 was out of warranty and it failed, I emailed Magna-Donnelly directly and they gave me a free replacement (I had to ship the old one back). However, I decided to install an auto-dimming square mirror w/ compass and Homelink that was optional on BMWs.

Acura uses (or used) Magna-Donnelly mirrors and there was some sort of lawsuit from an Acura CL owner that got ill.

AFAIK, MD is no longer replacing BMW M-oval mirrors directly and they recommend you use a 3rd party vendor and they charge you $75 for the swap. There's a long thread on m3forum.net about it. Hope this helps.

///Michael

Gentex was another supplier of auto-dimming mirrors for BMW, but I believe their auto-dimming technology is different from Magna-Donnelly's.

Same thing happened to my Range Rover mirror. Magna Donnelly replaced it free of charge.

[SFchallenge]

Oh damn. The same thing happened to my mirror too, I can see a liquid in the glass & I left it that way for many months now. Didn't know it's poisonous & I've just sent Magna an email about this.

The previous owner of my E39M5 also replaced the rearview mirror twice because of this issue!