Disassembling Ganador Gd Super Mirrors - Side Mirrors

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Hi,

Recently purchased some second hand Ganador Mirrors. They are currently silver and my car is pearl pink white.

Since matching my car is difficult, I'll most likely paint them black as wrapping them in carbon turned out to be too expensive.

I searched around online for a guide to disassemble the mirrors but there was nothing, just other people asking.

So I disassembled one and then took photos for the second one as a guide for myself to put back together and might as well put a guide up for others.

Tools:

Pointy tip pliers

Phillips head screw driver

Flat head screw driver

7mm spanner

Guide:

1. Temporarily fit the power connector to your door and adjust the mirror lens horizontally inwards until it can't anymore. The lens is on a pivotal ball with two rubber screws that are threaded into the motors. This way the rubber screw is completely out of one socket. Then carefully seperate the lens from the pivot ball (be gentle as the other screw is still threaded and are very weak). Once it has popped off, adjust the mirror upwards (iirc) to get the lens completely detached.

This is the lens detached (after I decided to take photos of the process)

2. You can do the following steps unplugged from the car.

Behind the lens is the motor held onto a backing plate by 4 screws. 3 of which are easily enough to screw out but the 4th has a nut behind it which you can't get to just yet.

3. Remove the 2 screws holding the backing plate to the housing.

4. Pull the whole part out, it should come out with a bit of force as the spring is holding it in, so just move it until it holds itself ajar.

5. Here you'll be able to see the 7mm nut, use the spanner to hold it and close the gap a bit until you can use your screw driver on the outside.

The motor should come off the backing plate now.

6. Now that the plate is by itself, the only things holding it there are the two springs which are hooked onto holes.

Push the plate back in and try to get the plate back out from the opposite end (opposite to where it is hooked) this will remove the resistance from the springs. Then just unhook the two springs from the plate.

7. The housing can be separated partially now.

8. The parts of the housing aren't actually attached anymore but the motor power cable is threaded through and bolted down on the adapter plate(?). Undo the screw (on the left) that is on the casing not the one on the circuit board. The circuit board holder will now come off.

9. Thread the holder through the whole where the wires are. Your Ganadors will be two parts now.

10. Now I didn't test if the bracket would fit through the hole of the lens holder but I didn't want to chance the squeeze and just undid the screw.

After you undo the screw, you'll have to carefully pry the circuit board off the bracket (its stuck).

11. Thread that through the hole and pull the motor out and.......

12. You're done. Ganador Mirror into pieces.

Obviously probably could be worded better and done another way but yeah, this is what I did.

Hopefully it'll help someone out there.

Cheers

Simon

[sinnerstar]

Actually did this today to my eastbear mirrors but stripped the motor down too, which looks almost exactly the same just need to undo that 7mm nut and then the two sides come apart which has two little motors in it, so if they ever crap out jaycar or any place like that stock them, pretty common.

[Owgasm]

Good to know mate. Thanks.

Just a few words if you're painting them.

I figured they were too small a thing to pay someone else to paint.

So I sanded and sprayed a few coats and a clear.

Make sure you put them together before your last few coats.

I knew it would be a pain to put back together and would scratch the paint, so I did it half way through then painted one or two more layers and then then the clear.

Mission and a half. But all done.

Good luck to anyone else who may try