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Ptbug123
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 Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2026 4:46 pm Post subject: Outside Mirror question |
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My beetle came with these plastic mirrors and I am not really a fan. I would like to replace them. I notice that the left door mirror mounting hole size is substantially larger than the right. It looks almost like a nutsert in the right door. Is that removable? When I look up the standard mirror to purchase on JBugs for example it looks like the mounting size of the standard mirror (right & left) is the same as the left side on my car. Anyway, curios on the community advice on this situation.
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Cusser
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2026 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: Outside Mirror question |
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I don't think I can directly hep with this, but VW convertible outside mirrors had a larger thread than sedan mirrors.
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redhot
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anthax
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2026 4:05 am Post subject: Re: Outside Mirror question |
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It looks very much as a nutsert to me.
Easy to remove, just drill the outer material away. Usually a drill 0,5mm smaller than the outside diameter of an unused one works great. The boring part is to get the removed piece out of the cavity it lands in.
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Buggeee 
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