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Wobbly F430 door-mirrors solution

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  1. 328gts1987

    328gts1987 F1 World Champ
    Lifetime Rossa Owner

    Mar 11, 2007
    13,009
    Rotterdam Holland
    Full Name:
    Fred
    Hi all,

    After 100.000km's took care of the wobbly door-mirrors of my F430 spider. As The same mirrors are installed on the coupe it is a fix for both.

    Maybe also for Scuds/16M's but those have carbon mirror-housing and can be fine/more ridgid.

    Anyway, the issue is the to legs of the mirror "opening" up. The top leg has a pin/cap holding it in place, the bottom leg has a turning plate (with the cable running through).
    By age the distance between the Legs of the mirror widens and the pressure of the top-leg at the pin reduces (also wear can help) and the mirror goes wobbly.

    By installing a rubber disk (I used the inner-tube repair rubber for a bicycle....) on top of the pin-head the distance is reduced and the wobbly stops.

    See flexi-rubber disk moulded over the pin-head.

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    In this way the mirror can still be folded instead of the tyraps I see sometimes....

    Also I noticed in some cases the turning disk (bottom leg) is installed with 3 small screws at the base.
    If those loose it has the same effect and the mirror-house becomes wobbly. Same feel/problem but different issue. So check those 3 screws when you are there.

    The mirror-housing can be opened by removing the 3 star-head screws beneigth the lower leg. DON'T scratch you door-paint and use proper (small) tools (I taped the door paint before starting using paper masking tape)
     
    StevieBob and colorfull like this.

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