Need driver's side side mirror completely replaced!! $600 from MINI?!?
 

Does anyone have a better idea?? I'm in SoCal and can't really afford the $600 for a side mirror, someone must be able to repair or replace for less. Desparate!!!

What happened to your mirror? Is the the entire assembly?

well the base of it where the line is has snapped in 2 thanks to a drug induced lady in Silverlake not watching where she's going, tried to chase her down but she looked at me like "are you holding some? " so I just let her go, thank god it didn't damage anything else. I wish I could just glue it together.
there must be a better option than paying $600 to have it replaced, someone anyone help me out. thanks!!!!

pay 600 and get power folding mirrors!:wink:

That or I saw some ones removed from a totalled MINI on Ebay the other day.

upsilon, sndwave's passenger sideview mirror broke its neck and he got a replacement from Classic MINI in Ohio. (NAM members get a discount there!) He paid $28 for the base part. The entire part should probably be about $220 through a junkyard. Call around! $600 is RIDICULOUS! :eek:

Clover :cool:

"entire mirror" is composed of many parts
 

click here http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...72&hg=51&fg=10 and pick thorugh what you actually need, order it from classic and get teh discount, diy-i believe it has to be cheap enough to just buy the pieces you need, as seen in this illustration.

Wow! Thanks for posting that URL. That may well turn out to be the most valuable bookmark I have.

Bookmark these two links
 

These URL's are the links to the main pages of these parts catalogs.

Cooper:

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partgrp.d...3&mospid=48018

Cooper S:

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partgrp.d...3&mospid=48021

I have found them very informative.

oops
 

sorry for not posting the general url-i got that url from this site and just assumed it was general knowledge, and was trying to help by being specific-thanks for updating it scmcs!

Thanks to you and stage1scott for linking what is essentially the motherlode of parts, indexed and catalogued. I had no idea!

Brilliant! :thumbsup:

There are mirrors on eBay now with a buy it now price of $89.99
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MINI-...91079780QQrdZ1

I looked at the same mirror on ebay today and was thinkin about getting one. Holy Crap:eek2::eek2::eek2: Is your dealer insane? I had a piece of an 18 wheeler come off and hit my mini 2 weeks ago and take out the cover of my mirror and I called my dealer today and it was $48 for just the cover primed "not painted" or $120 for the whole mirror painted!!! And that was FULL PRICE FROM MY DEALER!!! Those ppl are on Crack... Geese If you can't find one online pm me and I will buy the one from my dealer and fed-ex it to ya!!! LOL

WOW:grin: Great parts link:thumbsup:

Sorry upsilon23:sad:, that this happened, but the parts bin is now open:wink:
:cool:

My mirrors covers get scratched up due to idiot motor cycle drivers here in Korea cutting between traffic. I asked my dealer in the USA about replacement mirror assemblies (Northwest Mini)and I was quoted $175.00 per mirror assembly. I went and bought some CF look mirror covers from the guy that posted a site in NAM. I got a set for $35.00. They look good, are cheap, and if they get scratched I can always get another set.

If you are saying that the point on the base where it swivles at broke, this is what happened to me.

You don't need to replace the entire mirror, just the base portion. You will then transfer all the other good parts to the new base unit. I replaced mine in about half an hour.

Getting the mirror cap off was the hardest part, but now that I've done it once I could do the job in less time if I had too again.

Total cost will be about $40 or less.

where did you buy the base and all the stuff inside the base then? where are you located? I would happily pay you to do this.