80 series mirror
Submitted: Thursday, Apr 14, 2005 at 16:05
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Member - Davoe (WA)
My mirror fell out the other day, The actual mirror is fine but it has a white section the mirror ataches to to allow movement which in turn attaches to the black wing outside of the mirror. According to Toyota they only sell the actual mirror or the complete assembly which I find very hard to believe as there is a hole under the mirror assembly to fit a screw driverand remove the part I need.
Anybody else come accross this and got the correct part at a reasnable price. If not I will have to try the wreckers orshell out some obscene amount for a new mirror
Reply By: BenSpoon - Thursday, Apr 14, 2005 at 17:50
Thursday, Apr 14, 2005 at 17:50
Had the same drama with both my last and current 80 series passenger mirrors. Last one the mirror fell out and started flapping around in the breeze, held on by the electric motor wires. In my current one, the thing is flopping around, but is still sat inside the mirror housing.
I tried everything I could think of to get the mirror back in there- Epoxy, "reinforced plastic welding" (aka melted plastic forks with hot clothes pins poked thru)- the only thing that sorted it for us was a large amount of silastic, and pushing it back into place.
I tried wreckers and genuine and had no luck finding anyhting I could call a reasonable price. It seems like a pretty common problem.
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Reply By: Glenn (VIC) - Thursday, Apr 14, 2005 at 19:34
Thursday, Apr 14, 2005 at 19:34
Davoe,
I too had the same issue, meant I had to buy entire mirror assembly. Seeing I was spending so much, I thought I may as
well buy two so that if I ever sell the truck, I will put two brand new assemblies onto it. All I did was take the mirror sections out and replaced originals on both sides. Price made me cry, but what choise do you have sometimes...thanks Toyota.
Cheers
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Reply By: motherhen - Sunday, Apr 17, 2005 at 16:16
Sunday, Apr 17, 2005 at 16:16
Hi Davoe
Something similar happened to me a few years back - bought a cheap complete mirror assembly from Marlows or similar and put that on instead. No fancy features like internal adjustment though.
I noticed some time ago you'd mentioned going to Mt Meharry. When we went up to the Karajini a couple or years ago, we looked for how to get there, but nothing was signed. I'd read you can drive to the top. How do you find it, and what is the drive like? We'll be going that way again next time we go to visit son at Wickham. We have now got a GPS so that may help.
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (WA) - Sunday, Apr 17, 2005 at 18:33
Sunday, Apr 17, 2005 at 18:33
I went there in my 1978 nissan camper (no it didnt make it to the top) and a crappy road atlas book I had really wanted to go there but as you say there are few sighns. All I did was travel on the northern highway until I was adjacent to Mt Meharry and took a likely looking road west. It went past
packsaddle camp until I came accross a sighn off to the south saying Mt Meharry 20km 4wd only so I nursed the old girl down the track and got to within a few ks where I came accross a
creek crossing that looked like it might hang the beast up on as I had seen no other cars I walked the rest of the way. There is a road to the top and my memory of it was it looked ok but of course I wasnt driving. It is not a steep climb to the top
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Follow Up By: motherhen - Sunday, Apr 17, 2005 at 18:45
Sunday, Apr 17, 2005 at 18:45
Hi Dave - thanks for your prompt reply. We couldn't even tell which was Mt M from the highway, so you did
well. I have been looking at QPA WA map book in a
shop which i may purchase; it appears to have many of the minor roads and tracks on it - even from that i couldn't tell which track to take! I haven't looked on the GPS. How far did you walk? We will tackle "easy" mountain climbs - and on our last holiday even made it to the top of Mt. Frankland, near Walpole - which is a short climb but so steep in
places it includes steps and a section of ladder. We would need somewhere to park the caravan if we find and tackle the road. Won't be going in the immediate future, but plan to tour North and visit son some time in next couple of years. How's the mining job going?
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (WA) - Tuesday, Apr 19, 2005 at 22:30
Tuesday, Apr 19, 2005 at 22:30
I have the qpa book and it is good but be aware it has a few shortfalls. The job is going
well and is giving me time too
test out my new (2nd hand 80) I actually found my way out to mm in the dark so i considerd it wasnt too hard. I dont know how far I walked but I had a sprained ankle (karinjini) but there was no way I was going too mis out on wa s highest peak. good
views of Karanjini from top
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Follow Up By: motherhen - Friday, Apr 22, 2005 at 13:26
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 at 13:26
Hi Davo - have you seen the Hema Australian Road Atlas they sell on exploroz
shop? I wonder how comprehensive it is - i would prefer all of Oz in one book, so long as it has detail comparible to atlases like QPA.
Did you get your mirror fixed? (Original subject of your thrread).
Motherhen
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (WA) - Friday, Apr 22, 2005 at 20:59
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 at 20:59
no I havnt I use a mix of the Qpa maps (very detailed) and now the book to get around. If intending on getting right into it I supplement that with 250k mapsheets
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