Power fold mirror question

[Sour_Squirrel]

A question about the factory DQS power fold tow mirrors.  Can the mirrors fold manually without doing any damage to the motor mechanism that folds the mirror?

 

[2017_whitez71]

I would think so.  I know you can manually fold the DL3 mirrors.  Maybe @pgamboa would know for sure.

[dmorrisL86]

I would like to know this as well. The power folding mirrors on my ‘03 could be folded manually without issue. Not sure about my ‘17 though. 

[bndawgs]

yes, you can manually fold them without damaging the motor.   

 

Although, you may hear a popping noise when doing the power fold after manually folding them.  

[pgamboa]

Yep.  You can manually fold/unfold them.  There are provisions for this in the event the motor fails and you need to unfold them.

[bndawgs]

11 hours ago, pgamboa said:

Yep.  You can manually fold/unfold them.  There are provisions for this in the event the motor fails and you need to unfold them.

There's also a sequence to perform if they get out of sync.  It's in the manual

[cbrsilv15]

On my 07, you just had to cycle the power fold mirrors a few times to get them back to normal.  

 

My old job sold me some DL3's that had broken gears for the powerfold for $5.  Installed them and cycled them twice to get the gears back on track.  Gotta love it when the auction yards manually folded them in.  Lol.

[MTY55]

One of the employees at the car manually folded my passenger side mirror and I was pissed. When I got out of the wash I cycled it with the power button and all was good.