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peterlawl84

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So I just picked up a 2015 Sierra SLE this weekend and the power side view mirrors only adjust horizontal (left and right) but not vertical (up and down) on both sides.  The manager at the dealership said this is normal and that I have to adjust it by hand to go up and down (told him I also have a 2014 Silverado LT and its moves in all 4 directions and why would GM put a 4 way switch if it only moved 2 directions, plus who has ever heard of a power mirror only moving 2 directions?!).

 

I ended up just getting up the truck as I got the price I wanted and because the manager was not interested in having his shop look into it prior to a sale, but the truck did come with a 3 month warranty that does cover the mirrors that has $0 deductible, I would just rather save myself the trouble of scheduling an appt for the truck to be looked at if its just a loose connection or something.

 

I tried to do a search but did not find much info about mirrors only moving 2 out of 4 directions.

 

Is it an easy trouble shoot? I have found videos on how to open up the door panel.  I am thinking something with the switch since both sides have the same issue vs both motors going bad?

I just got the 2014 silverado a few months ago and have not had a chance to do many mods to it yet (trying to keep it to a minimum as the reason for 2 similar trucks is for a surprise birthday present for the twins in a few months and Id rather spend money on upgrades on the vehicles I'll drive more regularly).

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so I got a new switch and the passenger side works in all 4 directions, but driver's side mirror only goes left and right still. I switched it out with the switch on my slivered and still the same thing.  Any ideas on where to look next?

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Sounds like the motor in the driver's side mirror head has gone bad. I've never changed on,  but you tube has videos...

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23 hours ago, Enough said:

Sounds like the motor in the driver's side mirror head has gone bad. I've never changed on,  but you tube has videos...

So I went out and looked at the truck today and now its back to BOTH sides not going up and down, only side to side.  This is a new OEM switch that last night was working on the right side, but left side only going side to side.  would you still think its the mirror heads as the right side was working last night when I put the new switch in?

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just to update this in case this happens to anyone else.  I finally had time to take the truck in and get looked at.  They were stumped too, as they put in 2 new switches and same thing happened. then they replaced both motors, did not work.  Then decided to keep the truck and spent the last 2 days tracing the wiring.  Turns out during previous ownership, someone took apart the door and when they went to hook things back up, bent 2 of the prongs in one of the plugs, so it was shorting out and burning up the switches.  They fixed the connection, got a new switch, now mirrors work in all 4 directions! despite what the selling manager tried to tell me that only SLT and up trim levels had 4 way mirrors and SLE was 2 way...

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