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Fri Nov 14, 2003 1:29 pm

I am trying to decide if I want to put in a right-side stock mirror, or a pair of cal-look mirrors. Does anyone what any experience with these?
My goal is to have the most functional mirrors first, the worry about the overall look. I am kinda leaning toward cal-look anyway.
The goal with this car is to provide a good reliable daily driver. I will make it prettty later.

Thanks,

Fri Nov 14, 2003 5:03 pm

Can't tell you about Cal-look, but here's my take on stock mirrors: I stripped the thread on my vert's left side mirror when reinstalling it (stoopidest thing I've done so far to my beetle) so I ordered a Japanese repro. Put it on but was never satisfied. Searched for months for a used original (hard to find as the late Super verts have a different mirror than earlier ones) and I finally gave up till I stumbled across a German one on the Wolfsburg West site. Ordered it and is a perfect copy, in fact looks like original equipment. So if you're going stock, try for German original equipment replacements if you can't find a used original. Wolfsburg West has always sold me great stuff.

Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:55 pm

The aftermarket mirrors tend to be poorly built and look tacky after a few years on the car. I agree 100% with the advice supervert has given. Other than nos Wolfsburg West is the best choice.

Mon Nov 17, 2003 2:32 pm

i have a set of durrant mirrors for mine
they come off an old porsche 911
they look good
very functional
very nice indeed

Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:35 pm

i'm going to avoid buying any aftermarket parts for my Beetle & future Beetle, i always hear bad things about them not lasting. you might be able to buy some from VW Heritage, i've never used them but i've heard good things http://www.vwheritage.com/publicRouter.cfm :idea:

Sat Nov 22, 2003 12:50 pm

the mirrors i have came off a junked 69 911
all we had to do is drill the mounting holes and put em on
they look good, almost like they came on the car

Sat Nov 22, 2003 2:14 pm

Now porsche mirrors would look good and hold up well as they are top quality german engineering.

Sat Nov 22, 2003 2:15 pm

get a set of classic ray-dots, and mount em up.

Sat Nov 22, 2003 2:37 pm

you have a link to a supplier for those mirrors?

Sat Nov 22, 2003 8:11 pm

I run a set of Vitaloni "baby tornado" mirrors, painted to match the body color. I get a lot of compliments on them. I like them a lot. They are very good quality. However, I think Vitaloni is out of business, so maybe ebay or the samba classifides will have them if you're interested.

Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:26 pm

http://store.cip1.com/Merchant2/merchant.php?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=07-03-07 :D