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Door mirror replacement on 2016 Ducato
I have just replaced my passenger door mirror on my 2016 Ducato. This required replacement as on the second day of a 1 month tour of France & Spain last September, a French artic lorry driver driving too fast in foggy conditions decided to overtake me on a section of road where it was two lanes going down to one.
Despite my breaking hard, and taking to the verge, he hit my nearside mirror and ripped it forward. The noise was tremendous and I thought he had taken away my front nearside wing as well. Needless to say, he didn't stop or even slow down. We stopped a few hundred yards further up the road where it was safe to pull over. To my relief, the wing wasn't touched but the mirror was pulled right forward with both lenses and the indicator hanging by wires.
Using some duct tape, I taped it all together so that I could at least use the mirror. To my surprise, the electric adjustment on both mirrors still worked, and so did the indicator.
I purchased a new electric, manual fold, short arm mirror from Wingmirror Man (https://www.wingmirrorman.co.uk/). I searched but couldn't find much info on how to replace the mirror, however I did find the thread about fitting Proplates by @Riverbankannie which had some very useful for info regarding removal of Remis blinds and interior trim.
To start, the little Remis logo on the top left hand corner is clicked out and there is a screw in the left hand corner to be removed
The blinds can then be pulled slightly towards you and up. There are a couple of clips which need a little bit of wiggling for the blinds to come away.
The 4 star headed screws holding the mirror can now be seen, but a little more dismantling is still required. Remove the 4 screws on the underside of the armrest
Prise off the cover plate in the lefthand corner using a trim removal tool, to access a hidden star head screw
pry out a cover behind the door pull lever and remove 2 more screws
pry off the window winder switch panel and disconnect the wiring plug to the mirror. Pry off the door speaker panel and remove the 3 posidrive screws
In Riverbankannie's writeup it said to unplug speaker. Mine didn't want to play ball, but there was just enough slack on the wiring to swing the armrest out the way. the existing (broken mirror) was unscrewed and removed. The new mirror was fitted and the wiring fed through and reconnected. At this point I tried the mirror functions and indicator, and fortunately was all well.
Re-assembly is in the words of the old Haynes manuals is the revere of disassembly.
Tools I used were some trim removal tools, a screwdriver with 2 star heads and 1 posidrive head
The only difference I could see between the original mirror and the new mirror was the original had 2 additional location pins on. The gasket on the back of the new mirror wasn't as good quality as the original so I swapped them over (mirrors prior to swapping the gasket)
Time took overall was about 1 1/2 hours with frequent reference to the Proplate fitting thread
Cheers
Trevor
I have just replaced my passenger door mirror on my 2016 Ducato. This required replacement as on the second day of a 1 month tour of France & Spain last September, a French artic lorry driver driving too fast in foggy conditions decided to overtake me on a section of road where it was two lanes going down to one.
Despite my breaking hard, and taking to the verge, he hit my nearside mirror and ripped it forward. The noise was tremendous and I thought he had taken away my front nearside wing as well. Needless to say, he didn't stop or even slow down. We stopped a few hundred yards further up the road where it was safe to pull over. To my relief, the wing wasn't touched but the mirror was pulled right forward with both lenses and the indicator hanging by wires.
Using some duct tape, I taped it all together so that I could at least use the mirror. To my surprise, the electric adjustment on both mirrors still worked, and so did the indicator.
I purchased a new electric, manual fold, short arm mirror from Wingmirror Man (https://www.wingmirrorman.co.uk/). I searched but couldn't find much info on how to replace the mirror, however I did find the thread about fitting Proplates by @Riverbankannie which had some very useful for info regarding removal of Remis blinds and interior trim.
To start, the little Remis logo on the top left hand corner is clicked out and there is a screw in the left hand corner to be removed
The blinds can then be pulled slightly towards you and up. There are a couple of clips which need a little bit of wiggling for the blinds to come away.
The 4 star headed screws holding the mirror can now be seen, but a little more dismantling is still required. Remove the 4 screws on the underside of the armrest
Prise off the cover plate in the lefthand corner using a trim removal tool, to access a hidden star head screw
pry out a cover behind the door pull lever and remove 2 more screws
pry off the window winder switch panel and disconnect the wiring plug to the mirror. Pry off the door speaker panel and remove the 3 posidrive screws
In Riverbankannie's writeup it said to unplug speaker. Mine didn't want to play ball, but there was just enough slack on the wiring to swing the armrest out the way. the existing (broken mirror) was unscrewed and removed. The new mirror was fitted and the wiring fed through and reconnected. At this point I tried the mirror functions and indicator, and fortunately was all well.
Re-assembly is in the words of the old Haynes manuals is the revere of disassembly.
Tools I used were some trim removal tools, a screwdriver with 2 star heads and 1 posidrive head
The only difference I could see between the original mirror and the new mirror was the original had 2 additional location pins on. The gasket on the back of the new mirror wasn't as good quality as the original so I swapped them over (mirrors prior to swapping the gasket)
Time took overall was about 1 1/2 hours with frequent reference to the Proplate fitting thread
Cheers
Trevor