Last week, the glass from the passenger side mirror fell of my S13. No biggie, it had a good 18 year run, so if the glue that held it on wants to call it quits now, i can't really say much. I ordered a new one from Courtesy Nissan, which came in Thursday. Aside from now having that jackass "Object in mirror" blah blah blah... crap written on it, it looks pretty much identical to the piece that fell off.
My question is, how the hell do you snap the new piece on without breaking it?
The back of the replacement piece has five push on snap clasps and of course i want all five to snap in correctly, otherwise it could fall of again. This requires putting pressure on the glass in front of all five snaps. I suppose if you were to apply gradually increasing, but exactly equal, pressure across the entire surface area it would just snap in. This is much easier said than done however.
I've already broken one $30+ replacement glass, so i'm looking for advice on how to deal with the next one.
I do plan on having someone hold the mirror adjustment knob on the inside of the car, in a stable position next time. That should help to some degree, but if anyone out there has any other ideas or tricks, i'm wide open to suggestions.
Thanks,
KRM
My question is, how the hell do you snap the new piece on without breaking it?
The back of the replacement piece has five push on snap clasps and of course i want all five to snap in correctly, otherwise it could fall of again. This requires putting pressure on the glass in front of all five snaps. I suppose if you were to apply gradually increasing, but exactly equal, pressure across the entire surface area it would just snap in. This is much easier said than done however.
I've already broken one $30+ replacement glass, so i'm looking for advice on how to deal with the next one.
I do plan on having someone hold the mirror adjustment knob on the inside of the car, in a stable position next time. That should help to some degree, but if anyone out there has any other ideas or tricks, i'm wide open to suggestions.
Thanks,
KRM