Looking for door mirror recommendations

[alangraham]

Has anyone sourced new door mirrors that they can recommend and which bolt on easily and don't droop as mine have started to do on every run. Where did you obtain them? I prefer ones with a black finish on the back. For some reason mine, which are about five years old have started to become sloppy - not on the door mountings but on the twist ball joints themselves. I'm fed up with adjusting them several times every journey.
Thanks.
Alan Graham
N Yorks

[Mad Mart]

I'm pretty sure if you remove the mirror glass you can tighten the ball joint.

[B8WLY]

Hi

I put two new Tex mirrors on my Sprint this year. Got one from Rimmers who then run out of stock and got the other off eBay. Both Tex.

Put on the car tightened them up and they are really solid. No movement, no coming loose, good quality bits of kit.

Richard.

[DoloWIGHTY]

No need to remove the mirror glass, just tighten the two cross headed screws on the underside of the mirror.

[Mad Mart]

No need to remove the mirror glass, just tighten the two cross headed screws on the underside of the mirror.

Ah! yes. I was pretty sure you could tighten them some how.

[alangraham]

So, going off the above, I unscrewed the mirrors and took a look inside. First thing I see is "Tex, made in England". And right there in front of me are the two screws aforementioned. So I tightened them up and Geronimo! - Tight as a duck's proverbial.
This has saved me the hassle of finding new mirrors, the cost and everything that goes with it. Job sorted on both sides in under 5 minutes.
Doesn't this just show you the value of this site. Where like minded people can come together and share advice and tips on Dolomite cars. Not the first time the club site has come to the rescue. (If only other Dolly fixes could be quite so simple...)
Thanks to all who wrote in.
Alan.

[naskeet]

One can probably obtain TEX door mirrors direct from TEX Automotive Products; including left & right hand, polished stainless-steel & black, plane & convex mirror-glass, etc.

https://texautomotive.com/product-categ ... r-mirrors/

I bought my matching pair from Halfords back in the early-1980s. Refer to the following topic thread:

Board index » The Triumph Dolomite Club » Dolomite-related [Start here!] » Exterior rear-view mirrors: which were factory standard; door or wing mounted?

https://forum.triumphdolomite.co.uk/vie ... =4&t=34789

Personally, I would prefer a pair of matching Zanetti twin-lens door mirrors or at least some suitable mirror stems for the Zanetti twin-lens mirror heads & wing-mounted, hinged towing mirror stems that I salvaged back in the late-1980s.

Whether these TEX mirror stems might be compatible, I don't know!

https://texautomotive.com/product-categ ... ror-stems/

https://texautomotive.com/product/mirro ... ight-hand/

https://texautomotive.com/product/mirro ... left-hand/

The picture scan below, is an excerpt from my copy of the J. C. Whitney Catalogue No. 442D, dated 1984, which was given to me more than 38 years ago, by an American student named Eberhard Montieth, when he was studying for an M.Sc., at Cranfield Institute of Technology, in Great Britain.



The picture shows an accessory, door-mounted, external, twin-lens, rear-view mirror, of a type which bears some similarities, to those patented and manufactured, by Zanetti GmbH, in Switzerland, for vehicles such as the 1968~79 VW Type 2, 1980~92 VW Transporter T3, 1975-onward VW LT, plus other marques & models. The J. C. Whitney marketed, twin-lens mirror, plus the matching single-lens plane or convex mirrors, were said to have swivelling mirror heads, making them suitable for both left-hand and right-hand door mounting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JC_Whitney

www.jcwhitneyonline.com

Swiss-made, twin-lens Zanetti mirrors brochure (circa 1990) for VW Transporter T3 & LT etc









Note the improved zone of visibility conferred by the inboard mirror lens as indicated by the dark-grey shaded zones.

Zanetti Brevet twin-lens mirrors - Patent CH 3 280103





Zanetti twin-lens mirrors of type similar to those used on 1968~79 VW Type 2; including those featured on service vehicles for the German television rental company Telerent.