Editing Door Mirror, Sourcing and Replacing (section)

==Replacing a Mirror==

The door mirror and its painted shroud (mirror assy) are located onto the door mount by two plastic dowels. The lower dowel is screwed to the mount with a single cross head (phillips) self tapping screw. The screw is located behind a black sticker on the rear of the mount. Breakage of these dowels appear to be a common fault if the mirror assy is struck by force (ie parking dings and vandalism)

[[File:Wing Stump.JPG|thumb|none|Mirror Mount]]

 “Door mount showing broken bottom dowel from mirror still screwed in place” 

Accessing the screw to remove the mirror assy requires a cranked screwdriver due to the awkward location. Here I used a screwdriver bit in its holder and a thin allen key as a lever.

Note that this screw may be a Torx type.  Use a T20 driver to remove (it was on a 2003 111s) - (T15 Torx key worked on 2005 111R)

[[File:Mirror Plinth Screw.JPG|thumb|none|Mirror Plinth Screw Location]]

 “Door mirror mounting screw”


The mirror assy has 2 plastic locating dowels that fit into 2 holes in the door mount. If you are replacing a broken mirror assy with a 2nd hand (Rover/MG) mirror then the plastic dowels will need to be shortened to fit the Lotus door mount. A 2 minute job with a junior hacksaw. Just make sure you don’t cut them too short !!!!

If your 2nd hand door mirror assy was from a car with a manual adjuster attached, simply hacksaw off the manual adjuster at the point indicated on the picture below. The metal is aluminium and will cut easily at the point shown below

[[File:Adjuster Cut Off Point.JPG|thumb|none|Manual Aduster Cut Off Point]]

 “Where to cut off any manual adjuster if fitted to replacement part”