Car mirrors are one of the most essential security features that you need to constantly make sure are working correctly, because it is your safety, the safety of other road users and your budget because you can be fined if you have a malfunctioning side mirror. This is the case we will focus on today, you have dealt with a crash, one of your mirrors is damaged and you are now wondering how to change a side mirror on your Peugeot Expert? You are at the right place, we will describe all the steps to help you replace it in the right way. First of all, we’ll take a look at what attracts you on this page, how to change a complete side mirror on your Peugeot Expert, and then how to replace only the mirror glass.
How to replace a complete side mirror on my Peugeot Expert?
Let’s go, we start this article with the part that most probably interests you the most, how to replace a side mirror on my Peugeot Expert? This procedure is quite easy and you should be competent to do it on your own with a minimum amount of tooling. You will just need to take out the plastic cover inside your car’s interior, it is in most cases clipped on the door. For power mirrors, remember to 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 most cases there are three, a simple screwdriver should do the trick to allow you to complete this step of changing the side mirror of your Peugeot Expert. Make sure you 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 just 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 Peugeot Expert, you see it wasn’t that difficult.
How do you just replace the window of the side mirror of my Peugeot Expert?
In case you just need to replace the window of the side mirror of your Peugeot Expert, you will first of all need to discover the type of locking of your mirror. To achieve this, the quickest strategy is to examine the fixing system on the replacement glass.
Side mirror glass replacing: tongue-locking glass
- If you need to replace the side mirror glass of your Peugeot Expert and it uses a tongue and groove system, you are lucky, it is the least complicated unit to take out. All you have to do is to use a plastic object to take out the window “by force”.
- To reposition it, do the same and push it back in place with force. To check that it is perfectly 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 Peugeot Expert you will need to locate the locking spring, turn the glass in the opposite way to give you access to it, disassemble it.
- Make sure you 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 case of defrosting system
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- Stick to the positioning guide (notch) and carefully 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 find the location of the swivel plate of the window to be changed on the side mirror of your Peugeot Expert, in most cases it is at the bottom behind the window
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- Turn the glass in the opposite way to give you less complicated access to the device and using a screwdriver, rotate the device.
- If your mirror is equipped with a defrosting system, do the reverse process to reattach it and check that it is perfectly fixed.
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