Door Mirror replace from hatchback - Guide

[nikcoleman]

Hi.

I hope this will help anyone horrified at the cost of cc mirrors. If yours is broken you CAN replace it with a door mirror from a regular hatchback. You will need screwdrivers including torx types, and depending on your patience and finger strength, you may need to join some electrical wires.

I bought two, funnily enough with red painted sections identical to my cc, for £30. As opposed to £127 EACH from Peugeot. They were from a 52 hatchback.

You can find elsewhere instructions on the basic dismantling, but here's the trick to overcome the incompatibility of the plastic triangular door section between the two. The replacement mirrors from the hatchback MUST be the type with the coloured plate on the top identical to the cc type.

The cc type mirrors, and I'm talking about the 2003 model here, have an alloy plate / casting inside the triangular window section that bolts to the car. The hatchback version is all plastic but the same dimensions.

The cc alloy plate is bolted to the outer actual mirror section via a sort of bearing device, which is in turn attached to a casting which carries the mirror motors, mirror itself.

This is covered by the plastic shroud which gets broken. This is what we are replacing. This replacement though ALSO works if the cc mirror has been hit hard snapping the mirror motor assembly from the bearing, causing it to wobble around. This is when owners end up taping the outer mirror element to the stalk.

Here's the back to back fix then: the secret is that the hatchback plastic version, if you strip it down, does in fact ended up bolted to the same bearing as the cc alloy version at the point at which the mirror section meets the door mount.

On the cc mirror, turn it upside down and undo the three screws on the section of door mount beneath the mirror pivot. Strip both mirrors - you'll find excellent instructions elsewhere on this forum. The hatch version will have a six pin plug on the electrical loom, the cc has an eight although only six are connected. If you can be arsed, undo the mirror motor section and prise out the three pin plug which is the same as the cc so you can swap the looms over. OR cut the cc loom off near the mirror motors, cut the the hatchback six pin connector off and join the wires, the colours all match.

If youve stripped both mirrors down and removed the section under the mirror joint on both, you will find yourself left with the outer mirror section from the hatch, all plastic but moulded into an alloy bearing section, which is identical to the original cc item, and will bolt straight on to the cc door bracket, then put the whole thing back in the cc, once you have either connected the original cc loom or cut and shut the wires.

Hope this helps!

Nik

[j2112]

Nice info, thanks. Something I'm going to have to sort out .....