Vehicle mirrors are one of the most important safety features that you need to perpetually ensure that are functioning properly, because it is your safety, the safety of other road users and your wallet because you can be fined if you have a defective side mirror. This is the case we will focus on on this page, you have dealt with a collision, one of your side mirrors is ruined and you are now wondering how to change a side mirror on your Lincoln MKS? You are at the right place, we will outline all the procedures to help you replace it in the correct way. First, we’ll consider what attracts you on this website, how to change a complete side mirror on your Lincoln MKS, and then how to replace only the mirror glass.
How to replace a complete side mirror on my Lincoln MKS?
Let’s go, we start this guidebook with the part that probably interests you the most, how to replace a side mirror on my Lincoln MKS? This process is fairly simple and you should be able to do it without help with a minimum amount of tooling. You will just need to take off the plastic cover inside your car’s cabin, it is in most cases clipped on the door. For power mirrors, make sure unplug the power connector that you will see at the rear of the cover. Finally, you will have to unscrew the screws that hold the mirror, in general there are three, a simple screwdriver should do the trick to allow you to pass this step of changing the side mirror of your Lincoln MKS. Make sure to keep the mirror on the outside of your vehicle when unscrewing the last screw, so that it does not drop out. At last to install your new side mirror, you will only have to fit the new one in the 3 screw axes, screw it back in, reconnect the electricity if it is electric and to finish reposition the plastic cover. That’s it, you’ve just discovered how to replace the side mirror of your Lincoln MKS, you know now that it wasn’t that hard to do.
How do you just replace the window of the side mirror of my Lincoln MKS?
If perhaps you only wish to replace the window of the side mirror of your Lincoln MKS, you will first need to identify the type of locking of your mirror. To do this, the least complicated approach is to examine the fixing system on the replacement glass.
Side mirror glass replacing: tongue-locking glass
- If you wish to replace the side mirror glass of your Lincoln MKS and it uses a tongue and groove system, you are lucky, it is the easiest system to take off. All you have to do is to use a plastic object to take off the window “by force”.
- To reposition it, do the same and push it back right into place with force. To verify that it is well situated, move it around.
Side mirror glass replacing: metal spring locking glass
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- With this locking system, to replace the side mirror glass of your Lincoln MKS you will have to identify the locking spring, turn the glass in the opposite direction to give you access to it, disassemble it.
- Make sure to keep the spring because it is possible that you have not one supplied it with your new window, replace it on your new window, dismantle the old one paying attention to the electric cables in the event of defrosting system
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- Go along with the positioning guide (notch) and smoothly push it into its housing so as not to break it. Examine that it is well situated by moving it around.
Side mirror glass replacing: swivel tray locking glass
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- You can locate the position of the swivel plate of the window to be changed on the side mirror of your Lincoln MKS, generally it is at the bottom behind the window
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- Turn the glass in the opposite direction to give you easier access to the device and using a screwdriver, rotate the mechanism.
- If your mirror is furnished with a defrosting system, do the reverse operation to reattach it and check that it is well fixed.
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