You know what? I think my mounting pad was torn off at some point in
time. The backing of my mirror was most certainly nothing but plastic.
Two questions:
1. Is the mounting pad a "separate" thing? For example, on most cars
you mount a little block to the window, and the mirror snaps onto
that. Mine didn't have this.
2. Does the stock DeLorean windshield have a black "mounting point"
integrated into the window? Or do you put the mirror right on the glass?
When I bought the car I had a mirror with a plastic mounting base,
barely held on by double-sided tape. On the windshield I had a little
black rectangle integrated into the glass where the mirror mounts.
This wasn't a thick mount of any sort, it was a super thin thing that
seemed like it was part of the glass. I glued the plastic base of my
mirror to that little rectangle.
--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxx> wrote:
> > What metal? My entire mirror is plastic. There's no metal
> on it.
>
> If your mirror is of the so-called "original" variety -- be
> it NOS, or whatever, the mounting pad is made of a soft
> aluminum/pewter alloy. So what kind of mirror do you have?
> Does it look stock? Can you show us a picture of it?
> Meanwhile I'll see if I can scare up some photos of that
> bullseye cracked windshield I saw at the last SEDOC show.
> From the way it cracked, it is self-explanatory of why it
> cracked. You know the saying -- a picture is worth a
> thousand words (or a cracked windshield :-)
>
> The Gentex electro-chromatic mirror that I am going to mount
> on my DeLo is rather heavy (I think) for being held to glass
> with mere tape. The mount is of the regular GM variety, but
> it didn't come with the shoe that glues to the glass. All
> the original shoes I have seen are metal, but many of the
> aftermarket replacements are plastic. But this system seems
> too small to be held to glass with tape -- not enough
> surface area to hold with something weaker than GM OEM glue.
> And that kind of glue is only good for a few years at best.
> There are exceptions, but seemingly not on any car that I am
> responsible for maintaining.
>
> For mounting this Gentex mirror, I'm still undecided between
> two approaches:
>
> 1) Drill & tap a junkyard metal mounting shoe and screw it
> to a custom aluminum plate (shoe) the size of the OEM mirror
> footprint. Then tape that to the windshield using
> traditional DeLorean glass-friendly mounting tape.
>
> 2) Make a new bracket that will hold the mirror to the
> fiberglass roof of the car and skip that glass mounting
> fiasco shit all together. I helped a guy make one before in
> my shop for his DeLorean. It looks cool and was good for a
> first try, but it needs more refinement to control
> vibration -- and access to better machine tools to build
> such a thing. As usual, I have plenty of photos, but they
> are on film and may take me eons to get around to scanning
> them.
>
> Well, I got another evaporator to rip out of a car today.
> Hopefully it will come out without issues, and I can put it
> in my daily driver without having to repair kinked lines.
>
> Walt
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