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MGF Electric mirrors

Postby DavidL » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:28 pm

Thinking about taking the effort out of adjusting my mirrors.

Has anyone tried to fit these, and if so, any pictures? They seem to be available relatively cheaply...
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Re: MGF Electric mirrors

Postby b1zbaz » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:21 pm

I'm sure they would be relatively straight forward as long as you get the control unit along with the mirrors surely it will just be 12 volt
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Re: MGF Electric mirrors

Postby lankyjames » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:33 pm

And heated too, a bonus for those with heated front windscreens, sounds like a far-too-comfortable midas to me!
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Re: MGF Electric mirrors

Postby DavidL » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:48 pm

Before I posted my question I was watching a pair for either £20 or £25.

Posted the question, looked again, no longer for sale......but there are others, with widely varying prices. :o


...and on the subject of heated windscreens, I phoned my local Auto Windscreens today to see if they'd swap my old screen for my heated one. Yes, they'd do it. But they would have charged me around £200 for the job.

I helped my Dad remove and replace a windscreen in his first Mini (he bought a 1959 one around 1971 and stripped it down to a bare shell, cut out and patched everything that was rusty, and gave it a complete respray). Hard work but not impossible.

How hard is it to remove/replace a screen in a Midas?
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Re: MGF Electric mirrors

Postby lankyjames » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:54 pm

These ones David? :
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MGTF-MGF-Elec ... 43b9a53419

I replaced a screen in my mini, cracked the first one, luckily had a spare found out my scuttle wasn't straight, hence too much force fitting the first one, doh.

How is the Mk3 screen mounted, rubber or bonded?
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Re: MGF Electric mirrors

Postby Stuart » Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:57 pm

lankyjames wrote:How is the Mk3 screen mounted, rubber or bonded?


The same as the mk 2.
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Re: MGF Electric mirrors

Postby DavidL » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:06 pm

lankyjames wrote:These ones David? :
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MGTF-MGF-Elec ... 43b9a53419

They are the ones I'm watching NOW. :D

I think the set I saw first were Buy It Now for £25. Looks like someone else did.
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