RedCelicaTRD":1yh1qxkk said:
The center section is the part that holds the licence plate.
And could you tell me the part numbers for the mirror glass, both sides? I've got some JDM folding mirrors but I need some left hand drive glass to make them useable.
Lithuania is left hand drive, isn't it?
ACTually, I ran into this same problem. I don't think it's an issue for taller drivers, but for shorter people, the RHD mirrors don't work very well. See, I installed my RHD power folding mirrors and came across the same problem. The driver's side mirror had to be angled to the far left (maybe it was far right, I forget), to be able to see behind me, and the passenger-side mirror was just useless.
Anyway, I thought the same thing you did, that the glass just needed to be switched. So I actually cut my own mirror glass out of larger mirrors (Dremel + diamond cutoff blade) hoping that would solve it. No such luck. I still couldn't see out of the passenger side mirror.
SO! It turns out that on RHD cars, the angle of the mirror mounting bracket is different, hence, you can't get the mirrors to be angled correctly without a pair of LHD folding (not necessarily
power folding) mirrors. Here's a diagram of what I'm talking about:
http://discodan.org/gfx/celica/mirrorangle.gif
I got mine from Germany for about $100 shipped. Stripped the interior of both mirrors, cut a little metal for a perfect fit, and voila! LHD power folding mirrors!
Oh, and here's the best part. After all the trouble I went through to cut the mirror glass to LHD specifications, I found out once I received the mirrors from Germany that in LHD and RHD countries (except the US, obviously) the mirror glass is convex on
both mirrors, whereas in the US, we've got flat glass on the driver's side mirror, and convex glass on the passenger side.
Synopsis: If you want your power-folding mirrors to work as LHD mirrors, you're going to need the whole LHD mirror assembly from a LHD car.
The end.