OT GMC truck mirror question

I have a 2003 GMC 2500HD extended cab truck with heated,electric mirrors (they fold in when you push a button) They work great but they are a touch loose when I put my slide over towing mirrors on, they move a little at highway speed. Does anyone know how to tighten these up or should I call the dealer? I guess they are not to tight due to the fact that they fold in electrically. Thanks, Craig

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Craig Suslosky
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Hello,

I don't know how to tighten them but I will warn you, don't break them! My father is a parts department manager for a GM dealer and I witnessed someone ask my dad for one that he had broke. The non-heated one was close to $500.00 (Canadian) and the full-monty version (like what yours is I think if you have the LEDs in it too) was close to $800.00!!! I thought the guy was going to faint. Seems his wife wasn't watching moving the truck and wacked the mirror off on the side of the barn.

Jeff

Craig Suslosky wrote:

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Jeff Williams

OW! Great engineering, GM: fold in with a push button but break when hitting an obstacle. DUH!

I once scraped a left (passenger side) mirror off a rented Vauxhall in Wales when an approaching huge Volvo truck assumed that I was as skilled a driver as he and could get by with the millimeters of road he deigned to allow me. The passenger side of the road was a rock wall. Mirror, meet wall. Bye!

I was delighted to discover upon visit to a Vauxhall dealer that a replacement mirror cost about 15 pounds. Phew!

I tried those slide-on towing mirrors with my '97 Chev and had the same problem: they wouldn't stay put at highway speed. I found some other towing mirrors that hook with nylon straps to the window and door bottom that work quite well. I miss the big "West Coast" mirrors I had on the Blazer, but I didn't want to drill holes in the doors of my new truck some years ago, and still don't. Those sites

*wlll* rust. I ended up brazing brass threaded insert mirror mounts into the doors of the Blazer when I was gonna paint it anyway. That worked.

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Don Foreman

On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 23:55:17 -0600, Don Foreman brought forth from the murky depths:

Not bad at all. What's even more exciting is when you get too close to someone coming at 70mph the other direction and your mirrors touch.

Next time you need to do that on a painted vehicle, grab one of HF's threaded insert pop riveters. Drill a hole, screw a threaded insert onto the riveter, and pop it into the panel.

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