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wudz
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Do Door Mirrors go flush
« on: Mar 31st, 2005, 10:51pm » |
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Hi,
Just a quickie, as a new handbookless Scorpio owner do the door mirrors push flush to keep them out of harms way when parked...I dare not try pushing them just in case they don't..
Cheers
John
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geraghtyg
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Re: Do Door Mirrors go flush
« Reply #1 on: Apr 1st, 2005, 12:16am » |
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Afraid they don't fold in. They will snap from their housing if you give them a bang but they don't fold in. Perhaps it's a legacy from the old 80's Granada which I'm assuming had similar, if not identical mirrors. And welcome to the club 
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wudz
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Re: Do Door Mirrors go flush
« Reply #2 on: Apr 1st, 2005, 8:00am » |
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Thanks for that George....I will just park and hope..hi
Cheers
john
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Chad66
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Re: Do Door Mirrors go flush
« Reply #3 on: Apr 1st, 2005, 9:52am » |
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....and they make a horrendous cracking noise when they come out their socket...... 
Luckily so far they've just popped back in!! 
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mr._floppy
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Re: Do Door Mirrors go flush
« Reply #5 on: Apr 2nd, 2005, 5:17pm » |
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Scorp mirrors are not designed, as other cars are, to have a second " elbows in " position, but when whacked with another cars' mirrors they do dislocate themselves from the door mounting via a rather nifty series of articulated hinges . Another nice design job that mostly goes unnoticed
It's a simple job to pop it back in place.
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Dave
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Re: Do Door Mirrors go flush
« Reply #6 on: Apr 2nd, 2005, 7:22pm » |
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Oui you're right, Flop.. we should appreciate them for what they did. But the same mirrors appear on the mark 4 fiesta!
nothing's sacred to Ford.
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wudz
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Re: Do Door Mirrors go flush
« Reply #7 on: Apr 2nd, 2005, 9:18pm » |
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Hi all,
many thanks for the info, I have since been down to my local breakers for a couple of red lever covers for the rear dropdown estate seats, whilst there I had a tug at the door mirrors and exactly as described....CRACK and in they came on there articulated hinge, but as mentioned only for the occasional collison, but at least there is some protection built in..
Many thanks again to the members
cheers
John
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