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For starters, I do all of my own maintenance on my '23 Badlands, as well as my previous '21 Badlands.
The last time I did an oil change/tire rotation, I had the front driver's wheel up and off for the filter change. When I was done, without thinking I released the (floor) jack with it the handle in the upright position while it was directly under the mirror. I could see it happening and couldn't react quick enough, so I watched the handle bust my mirror right off. Ouch!
So I looked around for a replacement; Ford website was around $1600, but could find it a few places for $850 (with the high package I have all the gizmos in there). That hurt my feelings too much, so I figured it was broke already, might as well tear it apart and see what busted. Using a copy of the service manual (use search function to find it, it's for the '22 model year) I tore the thing apart.
There's a post that the mirror rotates on that goes up through the base into the mirror housing that had busted. Of course you can't get just the post, you have to buy the whole assembly. At the time (about 6 months ago), I just glued it back together with some of that expensive super glue (that has the activator), reassembled and it worked, until it didn't about a week ago.
This picture is after I tried using some epoxy to put it back together again, but I didn't even get it reassembled before it failed again.
So, let's dust off the 3D modeling skills and print one and see. Worst comes to worst, it may eventually fail and I'll print another, 'cause I ain't paying $850 for a mirror (BTW, the driver's mirror has the ambient air temperature sensor in it, so it's about a $150 more than the right side. I also thought of getting a base mirror to source just that part at $700).
30 minutes with my calipers and Autocad Inventor, then about an hour and 45 minutes later I had a new post.
I didn't catch a picture of the post and the spring before I put reassembled the base with the housing (and it was such a pain that wasn't about to disassemble just for a picture)
I used a 32mm deep well socket inserted into this side to press down on to depress the spring enough to get the post rotated into position.
When taking the plastic housing off the arm, be aware of the T10 screw to get them apart
Reassemble and reinstall.
PSA: if you start the engine while the mirror is disconnected, you'll get a CEL because the Ambient Temperature is disconnected. I used my scanner to clear the fault.
I'll post the .stl file tomorrow once I upload it to Thingiverse.
The last time I did an oil change/tire rotation, I had the front driver's wheel up and off for the filter change. When I was done, without thinking I released the (floor) jack with it the handle in the upright position while it was directly under the mirror. I could see it happening and couldn't react quick enough, so I watched the handle bust my mirror right off. Ouch!
So I looked around for a replacement; Ford website was around $1600, but could find it a few places for $850 (with the high package I have all the gizmos in there). That hurt my feelings too much, so I figured it was broke already, might as well tear it apart and see what busted. Using a copy of the service manual (use search function to find it, it's for the '22 model year) I tore the thing apart.
There's a post that the mirror rotates on that goes up through the base into the mirror housing that had busted. Of course you can't get just the post, you have to buy the whole assembly. At the time (about 6 months ago), I just glued it back together with some of that expensive super glue (that has the activator), reassembled and it worked, until it didn't about a week ago.
This picture is after I tried using some epoxy to put it back together again, but I didn't even get it reassembled before it failed again.
So, let's dust off the 3D modeling skills and print one and see. Worst comes to worst, it may eventually fail and I'll print another, 'cause I ain't paying $850 for a mirror (BTW, the driver's mirror has the ambient air temperature sensor in it, so it's about a $150 more than the right side. I also thought of getting a base mirror to source just that part at $700).
30 minutes with my calipers and Autocad Inventor, then about an hour and 45 minutes later I had a new post.
I didn't catch a picture of the post and the spring before I put reassembled the base with the housing (and it was such a pain that wasn't about to disassemble just for a picture)
I used a 32mm deep well socket inserted into this side to press down on to depress the spring enough to get the post rotated into position.
When taking the plastic housing off the arm, be aware of the T10 screw to get them apart
Reassemble and reinstall.
PSA: if you start the engine while the mirror is disconnected, you'll get a CEL because the Ambient Temperature is disconnected. I used my scanner to clear the fault.
I'll post the .stl file tomorrow once I upload it to Thingiverse.
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