Corroded Door Mirrors

[StuBeeDoo]

Anyone ever tried re-furbing them??

[leeparkes]

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

[rare]

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

[StuBeeDoo]

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

[Alex]

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

[m4xos]

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.

[harry_p]

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.

[StuBeeDoo]

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.