Car mirrors are one of the most essential safety features that you must always ensure that are functioning correctly, because it is your safety, the safety of other motorists and your finances because you can be fined if you have a faulty mirror. This is the circumstance that interests us in this article, you have experienced a crash, one of your mirrors is broken and you are now wanting to know how to change a side mirror on your Nissan Xterra? You are at the right spot, we will outline all the steps to help you replace it in the right way. To begin, we’ll have a look at what attracts you in this article, how to change a complete side mirror on your Nissan Xterra, and then how to replace only the mirror glass.
How to replace a complete side mirror on my Nissan Xterra?
Let’s go, we begin this guide with the part that most likely interests you the most, how to replace a side mirror on my Nissan Xterra? This process is very simple and you should be able to do it yourself with a minimum amount of tooling. You will just need to take off the plastic cover inside your car’s cabin, it is usually clipped on the door. For power mirrors, make sure you unplug the power connector that you will see behind the cover. Finally, you will have to unscrew the screws that hold the mirror, generally there are three, a simple screwdriver should do just fine to allow you to complete this step of changing the side mirror of your Nissan Xterra. Make sure you keep the mirror on the outside of your vehicle when unscrewing the last screw, so that it does not drop out. Finally to install your new side mirror, you will simply 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 learned how to replace the side mirror of your Nissan Xterra, you know now that it wasn’t that difficult.
How do you just replace the window of the side mirror of my Nissan Xterra?
In case you simply wish to replace the window of the side mirror of your Nissan Xterra, you will first of all need to discern the kind of locking of your mirror. To achieve this, the easiest procedure is to take a look at 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 Nissan Xterra and it uses a tongue and groove system, you are fortunate people, it is the easiest device to take off. All you have to do is to use a plastic thing to take off the window “by force”.
- To reposition it, do the same thing and push it back right into place with force. To check that it is perfectly positioned, 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 Nissan Xterra you will need to identify the locking spring, turn the glass in the opposite direction to give you access to it, disassemble it.
- Make sure you keep the spring because it is possible that you have not one provided 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 softly push it into its housing so as not to break it. Check that it is well positioned by moving it around.
Side mirror glass replacing: swivel tray locking glass
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- You can find the position of the swivel plate of the window to be changed on the side mirror of your Nissan Xterra, most of the time it is at the bottom behind the window
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- Turn the glass in the opposite direction to give you much easier access to the device and using a screwdriver, rotate the mechanism.
- If your mirror is equipped with a defrosting system, do the reverse operation to reattach it and check that it is perfectly fixed.
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