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On 5/23/2018 at 10:13 AM, jatkinson8755 said:

 

Is anyone having trouble with the 2015 versions of these mirrors yet ? I was going to swap mine over for the new style but not sure if that was also having these issues.

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Back in the day on here when power folding mirrors became an option, i predicted we'd see a lot of issues with them.  I am glad to see I was wrong for once.  I rarely see any posts with issues on them. 

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On 7/20/2019 at 4:19 PM, Colossus said:

Back in the day on here when power folding mirrors became an option, i predicted we'd see a lot of issues with them.  I am glad to see I was wrong for once.  I rarely see any posts with issues on them. 

Seriously ?  do a search lol.  These power mirrors are total junk, I wouldnt touch them if you have them unless you want to fix them.

 

dont even manually fold them, that puts more stress than electronically folding.

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well just for fun .. go to any used truck dealer and ask to manually fold the power folding mirrors a few times on the lot.  Watch the guys reaction lol.  They have a shelf life of about 5 manual folds and if you do it hard you can  break it in 1 fold.   They are total junk but its just the gears and motor that are bad, rest of mirror is very durable.

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Just fYI - here is an excellent video on how to replace the shitty plastic gear and weak electric motor in there with a metal gear and high torque new motor 

 

 

 

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