[Ducato wing mirrors]

pike - 2019-05-01 2:51 PM

 

Hi - my drivers side wing mirror folds back against the van at anything above 40mph (Fiat Ducato, long arm mirror).. Having looked into this, it looks like quite a few people have had this problem so I took the arm apart and part of the mechanism has corroded + broken and can't be fixed. Duct taping it into position is my temporary solution..

 

I have bought a replacement on ebay and when extended + adjusted all the way 'out' I can only see the road in about a third of the mirror - the side of my van is mostly in view, which is less than ideal.

 

I sent that mirror back and ordered another one from a different vendor - same problem. The only way to see the road properly will be to duct tape it into a different position - exactly what I am having to do with my old mirror, so a bit of a pointless exercise so far..

 

I am going to send the second replacement back - has anyone successfully replaced a ducato wing mirror (long arm) without paying £££ for an official Fiat one / has anyone else experienced this with a replacement - not being able to see the road and if so where did you source a replacement from?

 

Thanks

 

What year is your vehicle?

 

Before 2007 it was not that rare for the incorrect mirrors to be fitted in the Sevel Factory.

 

My first van, an Elddis on a Peugeot, had the wrong UK nearside mirror arms fitted. It was actually a Drivers mirror for a LHD vehicle. I had to take the van back to the Garage that did the original vehicle PDI checks and get them to sort it out (a round trip of nearly 200 miles)

 

A later van of mine, a Burstner 747, had the wrong mirror arms on the UK drivers side. I could adjust the mirror enough to get a reasonable view so I just left it at that.

 

You might be surprised at how many mirror arm variants there are available. 8-)

[Jump Starting Again !]

Cattwg - 2017-09-23 6:16 PM

 

Derek Uzzell - 2017-09-23 9:33 AM

If one has a jump-starting ‘booster’ and one is not pressed for time, is it a good idea to leave the booster connected to the discharged starter-battery for a while before attempting to start the motorhome’s motor?

 

This would seem a similar and reasonable scenario when two vehicles are involved. as the ‘good’ vehicle's alternator is in effect being used to charge the duff battery. From past experience (admittedly with cars) it would only take about 15 minutes to put enough juice into the duff battery to allow the good vehicle to be disconnected and for the now partially charged battery to start its own vehicle.

 

But this poses two questions. Would connecting the good vehicle’s alternator to a duff battery pull so much current as to destroy that battery? And the original question once the problematic vehicle is started will its own alternator destroy the battery?

 

You really have posed an interesting question HymerVan. :-D One for the experts, me thinks!

Cattwg :-D

 

You can now add something else into the mix. New alternators are classed as 'smart' and use new technology. I wonder how they perform in the case of a flat battery.

[Jump Starting Again !]

As far as I understand the procedure to jump start a vehicle with a flat battery, the 'donor' needs to connect the batteries with his engine running and to leave it like that for 10 minutes or so to put a little charge into the flat battery before attempting to start the engine of the problem vehicle.