RE: [DMCForum] Re: Rear view mirror

["Dave Stragand" <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They make PLASTIC buttons.  However, the adhesive pads suck.  I may try
gluing the plastic button on with rear view mirror adhesive.  The plastic
will flex a lot more than the metal will, and shouldn't crack the
windshield.
 
They also make silicone adhesive that may work with the metal buttons, and
I'm also tempted to use urethane windshield adhesive with a metal button...
 
-Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Coe [mailto:Whalt@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 3:34 AM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Rear view mirror


> Anyway, it's been fine for a month and I don't anticipate
any problems.

Wanna bet?  I would go without a rear view mirror before I
would chance super glue.  It's not that glue and glass don't
get along.  It's that if you fasten a metal plate to the
glass, then this interferes with the way the glass naturally
expands/contracts with changing temperatures.  The mirror
button holds the glass still while the glass around it
expands and then CRACK.  Leave the car out in the sun on a
burning hot day, and you will see what I mean.

On an old GM, I got so damned tired of having the mirror
fall off that I finally glued it up with JB-Weld.  That was
a permanent fix.  But DeLorean glass doesn't behave like GM.

A local nameless friend with his DeLorean made a bracket
that holds the mirror to the ceiling.  At least it can't
crack the windshield, but it allows too much vibration.  He
did this because he mounted one of those electrochromatic
auto-dimming mirrors.  I'm curious to try something like
this myself.  I already have the mirror but never found the
time.

Walt



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