fitting quarter light mirror
Posted By : William Davies, 08-Feb-2005, 08:30pm
Hi Mel,
My 1200 Coupe had something similar fitted when I first owned it. This one was clamped to the glass in the quarterlight, so it swivelled with the quarterlight. It fell off when cornering at speed when I'd only owned the car a couple of weeks. It may have been mounted wrongly, but I didn't really like it so I never bothered fitting another.
Cheers,
Bill.
My 1200 Coupe had something similar fitted when I first owned it. This one was clamped to the glass in the quarterlight, so it swivelled with the quarterlight. It fell off when cornering at speed when I'd only owned the car a couple of weeks. It may have been mounted wrongly, but I didn't really like it so I never bothered fitting another.
Cheers,
Bill.
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fitting quarter light mirror
Posted By : Jonathan Reed, 08-Feb-2005, 09:46pm
I gave up too. Even drilling small pilot holes to help solidity failed. Most of the time you need mirrors whilst overtaking and as far as I can see all mirrors on a Her/Vit (esp. soft tops) over 45mph are a bit useless!! Get used to looking over your shoulder and try to make out that blurry view from your indoor drivers mirror.
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fitting quarter light mirror
Posted By : Chris Taylor, 09-Feb-2005, 07:26pm
People seem to be able to get these to stay on on Minis (proper ones, not BMW!) so you might have a look at one when you pass in the street.
Proper door mirrors do a decent job,but will ultimatelycrack the doorskin. I advocate wing mirrors. Not only are they proper 1960's correct accessories, but they DO help with overtaking manouevres and you don't have to look far away from the road ahead to use them.-
fitting quarter light mirror
Posted By : Colin Lindsay, 09-Feb-2005, 07:51pm
I've had one each of the Club stainless mirrors fitted to both my last GT6; both fell off leaving an identical inch long scratch on the drivers doorskin and are now lying on the shelf in the garage. I bought a genuine 1970s accessory mirror in a junk shop and it has a far better clip for screwing to the window glass, so obviously the clip on the stainless models is totally inadequate. Possibly a drop of 'Gripfill' would keep it on... but I'd agree you definitely need some sort of rear view / blindspot mirror.
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fitting quarter light mirror
Posted By : Jason Chinn, 08-Feb-2005, 08:36pm
The are a bit weird - I had one on my 13/60 and have two on the Sixfire. The U shaped piece of metal goes in the window channel, there's usually a
furry bit on it that sits facing the door glass. There's then a blank pice of metal that goes in the U on the outside of the window channel , this
clamps the channel when you tighten the two grub screws. Make sure it's all tight, in fact put some grippy tape on the inside of the clamp to improve
the grip. These are great mirrors if you can get them to stay on, be prepared to lose one or two 
I was fortunate in
that when mine fell off I caught it - yes I was driving and yes I was bloody lucky!
I was fortunate in
that when mine fell off I caught it - yes I was driving and yes I was bloody lucky!