Mirrors Won't Stay Put
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Mirrors Won't Stay Put
NO , the advice in the STICKY didn't work for me.Neither has any of the other fifty remedies I have tried.
The wife's truck has those power mirrors like most Dodge trucks I have seen.
The passenger side is the worst.
I tried the STICKY--- didn't last thirty minutes.
I wrapped the shank with good duct-tape--- lasted maybe a day.
I wrapped it with thin rubber--- wouldn't hold at all.
I wrapped several layers of two-sided carpet-tape (this stuff sticks to anything--forever)--- NO GO.
I drilled through the little metal clamp, intending to drill into the mirror shank and permanently PIN it with a screw.
The clamp drilled easily; but, when I got to the shank, the bit wouldn't even make a mark on it. (If the rest of the truck was made of that stuff, it would last forever.)
I thought about GORILLA GLUE--The Toughest Glue On Planet Earth; but, I was concerned it might drip/run onto the painted door, and probably wouldn't hold that slick shank, anyway.
I am considering using bearing/race Loctite on it.
What will be the outcome of that, other than me wasting a tube of Loctite and thirty minutes more of my time??
Has anyone been able to actually cure these mirrors from flopping around??
Thanks.
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