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DYI Side Mirror LED

DYI Side Mirror LED

Postby regulatorr » Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:58 pm

heres. for those who want to know.
Not mine. But got it off the forum that i always go to.

Ok Make sure you mask your parts off dont be stupid and scratch them or get S#$T on them.
Mark your lines out and try and find a peice that somewhat resembles the conture of your mirror not only the out side but the inside. If your new at this NOW isnt the time to be puting a square peg in a round hole.

Becouse I did the drivers side first I use it to get the location of the passenger side. Now these Sentia mirrors are nice to work with the outer unscrews and makes it stupid easy to do this.

1. masked and ready to mark

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2. Now cut it out
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3. See if it fits
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4. Compare the fir and line up
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5. Make sure it fits inside too
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6. Cut the inside for the extruded portion of the lens
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7. test fit and align everything
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8. I usse this modeling epoxy the stuff is wicked for doing this it gets hard as the origional plastic and you can work it with water. you need to mix it one to one
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9. Now apply it to the surounding and force it into the cracks you want a little to push threw the back for a tight fit

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You can add and subtract material where needed I went with a little more volume than the parts so I can sand it back to the part depth. Make sure you cary it out far enough so you dont have to throw a bunch of putty back at it latter.

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OK here is the last of it. From this part on is just prep and paint. What I did was pull the part then sand the outer to a close conure of the mirror. You want to do that first before sanding the edges of the part. Why well most times the lines will open up as you get close to the levelness of your peice and the body peice.

Part pulled and sanded


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Here you can see the overlap on the part
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Here you can see the line left by the part
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here is where it needs to be sanded back to fit the part I also leveled the over flow to the back side so it is smooth there to.


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part in place
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Now I need to sand it back to flush the part here I draw a line to work to
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And finaly I will sand it so the lens sticks out enough to compensate for primer and paint. Next pix will be painted. You will need to run the wires threw the door and tap into your turn signal harness.

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Postby woa_its_j3ff » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:01 pm

hey that's a grea tutorial. i just got to find a lense that will match the gen 1 mirror nicely =). i think ill try that next weekend
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Postby pythonjosh » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:51 am

Dude what are you parked next to????????
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Postby woa_its_j3ff » Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:19 am

probably some parking lot lol.
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Postby pythonjosh » Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:24 am

The reflection on ur door. Them r some killer rimes.
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