Corroded Door Mirrors

Post Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:51 am

Anyone ever tried re-furbing them??

Post Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:10 pm

would be easier to but some more but if the corrosion isnt too bad i guess you could freshen them up.

Post Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:11 pm

I want to do this to mine, simply going to paint them black....same with the bumpers....cant be to hard, i hope!

Post Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:20 am

I was just wondering because sometime in the not-too-distant-future good ones are going to be hard to find.

Post Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:45 pm

luckly there was a white 316i in my local scrappy that had a respray not very good, but the wingmirrors had been done well

try rubbing them down and see if it makes them any smoother

Post Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:12 pm

i have tried rubbing down some last summer and didnt come off as well as i thought it would, you wont be able to make them brand new, but is better than alot of bubbly paintwork on them.

Post Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:38 pm

chip / sand off the corosion. you'll need a pretty brutal sandpaper to get through it, something like 80 grit aluminium oxide paper.

mask up the mirror casing well too, as you can't seperate them from the bases, and you don't want to sand gauges into the plastic.

fill, smooth, prime and paint. shouldnt be too hard to get a decent finish.

Post Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:29 pm

harry_p wrote:chip / sand off the corosion. you'll need a pretty brutal sandpaper to get through it, something like 80 grit aluminium oxide paper.

mask up the mirror casing well too, as you can't seperate them from the bases, and you don't want to sand gauges into the plastic.

fill, smooth, prime and paint. shouldnt be too hard to get a decent finish.

That's pretty much what I was thinking.....

Rub down and scrape loose material
Etch prime
Fill as necessary
Prime then satin black bases.