Door mirror glass

Is the plastic stuff any good?

I've tried it and thought it was pants

Newshound ( snipped-for-privacy@fairadsl.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

It's an Astra, ffs. If nowhere can find a mirror for *that*, what hope for those of us running odd stuff?

Assuming your not in the back of beyond, your local Halfords shed will stock replacement mirrors.

Dave

I thought it was useless when I saw it fitted to an old Colt that we bought as a run-around. Halfords as Dave said should stock one off the shelf. Why not make a template then take that with you and get a close match if they haven't got an astra one?

Should have looked a little bit further down the google page .....

Good thought (though their range wasn't very good last time I needed one). I buy such a lot of (relatively) obscure stuff on the web these days that I'm surprised that one of the motor trade suppliers doesn't have a site.

Thirty odd quid. Save your money. Motorworld (and others) have self adhesive mirrors for all makes. Don't remove the old cracked glass, it sticks straight on top. About a fiver afair. DaveK.

Further to that if it's not curved glass, buy one of those stick on 'overtaker' gizmo's which show the blind spot- about £2. DaveK.

The message from "DougP" contains these words:

Typical - don't list the Montego!

The message from "davek" contains these words:

But (in my experience) only flat glass, which is an abomination in a driver's door mirror.

Thanks for the link, how did I miss that?

Actually though it is Motorworld that *can't* manage to find me one, also they are asking £20 or so just for the (curved) glass, whereas the link is offering me the whole unit. My problem now is that I can't quite work out which one I need. It's a car on the borderline of Mk 3 and Mk 4 and has some features of each. The mirrors have a colour-matched shell so it looks like the Mk 4, except that the glass is more oval. The Mk 4 in the picture seems to have one square-ish corner, and that is the shape of the glass which would not fit!

Unitruck Ashton -U- Lyne do replacement mirror glass for pretty well everything bar WWII Focke-Wolfe . check under the car glass applet >

Vauxhall

Thanks, looks good: I will give them a bell

Sticking a new mirror on an old one looks awful and often stops it adjusting properly.

Why not remove the old glass? It takes about 5 seconds.

Secondly, the cost of a genuine glass is not great and they are well packed so a dealer could post one to you. At least you know it will fit properly.

The chassis number will tell the Vauxhall dealer all he needs to know and can identify the exact model.

Last year I was able to buy a glass for 1986 Carlton from a local auto accessory/factors place so an Astra should be no probs. Stuart