Thread: Longer mirror arms.

Originally Posted by Ranga

What sort of money did you guys pay for the Wolf mirrors?

Going from memory, just the arms (have to re-use the old heads) were $220-$250 for the pair!

Cheers,
Fraser

Originally Posted by fraser130

Going from memory, just the arms (have to re-use the old heads) were $220-$250 for the pair!

Cheers,
Fraser

ouch. I'll be giving that a miss!

Hi again all. Like Ranga I was not real keen on the price, also was not sure if they were going to be wide enough. So I bought a pair of second hand standard arms and have extended them myself, 3 centimeters longer than the advertised ones. 310 mm instead of 290mm.



First I cut the arms in half, and then used a piece of half inch square tube for a back bone. If I was doing it again I would not go in half but make the mirror end 8mm longer than the car end as it gets a little narrow for the tube and I had to ease it out with the angle grinder.



Secondly, hand form a cover from a bit of light sheet by bending over a piece of 25mm round bar and attach with some self tappers.
Add a bit of black paint and away we go. It all seems plenty strong at this stage but time will tell. I was going to countersink the screw heads and fill the holes before painting but decided I might need to get a screw driver to them after a day of corrugations.