Car Repairs

A while back our rear view mirror on our drivers side popped out of the frame, so we saran wrapped it back together until we could order and receive our new part. Well here's our story...

This is what it looked like.

We had to take apart our entire door panel to get the rear view mirror off, it was definitely a process. Dave was very prepared, he even found a you tube video saved on his iPhone that helped him do it step by step.

We ran in to some troubles with the new part. It looked like the right fit but it had one major
problem, the cord to attach to the door panel so we would be able to move the mirror around was too short! We tried pulling it to make it longer, and calling the customer service line for there advice (they were useless) and well let's just say we tired out all options to make that ordered part work. So desperately I prayed for it to just work, no luck. Dave and I even went back to the original part to see if we could fix that. No luck, and already we had the door panel taken down, and have been working on this for about 4 hours now...

Original part and door panel.

So you can see that we have it fixed, HOW you ask?

I had the idea to go to the dealership to see if maybe there technicians could fix the original mirror because it didn't look like the brackets holding it in were broken, that somehow it just popped out. Within 5 minutes, no joke the technician fixed it and no charge! I couldn't believe we went to buying a new part for $70, to buying tools for a new part $50, to not be able to install the new part due to it being defective, and thinking we'd have to take our Jeep to the maintenance place at the dealership to have it all fixed for $600 to just basically being out $50 for used tools and 4 hours of our time. Needless to say this was a big stress but in the end Dave and I both felt like we had conquered Mt. Everest. We we so proud of our accomplishment. Thankful that my prayers were answered maybe not in the way I thought, like having a miracle be preformed our the dysfunctional part but getting the impression to just ask for help from the dealership. We are so glad to say we made it work.