Forester side mirror: cover replaceable?

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- Charles Packer
  
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14 years ago

Wed, Feb 24, 2010 3:25 PM

The plastic cover for the side mirror assembly -- mine got smashed. The mirror and electric adjuster are fine. On inspection of what remains in place, it looks like the cover is held on with snaps. So can these remans be pried off and a new cover snapped on? My local Subaru dealer sells only the complete mirror assembly. There are hints online that the cover can be obtained. from China, but the Web site in question is kind of odd and hard to navigate. I put in a request there for more information. Anybody here have information on this?

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14 years ago

Wed, Feb 24, 2010 3:30 PM

I might suggest calling around to junkyards instead.

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14 years ago

Fri, Mar 12, 2010 2:18 PM

How much did the dealer want for the whole assembly?

The reason I ask is that we carry kayaks on the roof of my 2001 Forrester and in loading and unloading the kayaks the mirror covers on both sides ended up broken. My girlfriend thought replacement mirrors would make a nice Christmas gift for me, but she said the dealer parts price was something like $425 each for the complete assembly. Could that possibly be right? Surly not. We had no luck at all finding the part from junk yards either locally or online.

Anyhow we repaired the damage for $2.85 per mirror using muffler clamps and covering them with black duct tape. That was a couple of years ago. Now if the kayaks fall they just bounce off the mirrors.