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LAGrunthaner
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 Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:31 pm Post subject: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Found this in the gallery. If they were an option was it from the dealer or VW factory option?
Is anyone disappointed that they drilled into their doors to install them? The round are my favorite look but I like the visability of the truck mirror and the look could grow on me 
Show us your truck mirrors.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Horrible.
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coolerthanelvis
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Yes, available as an option and frequently referred to as "VWOA Mirrors". I loved them on my single cab! Hideously beautiful. My mirrors were a knock-off, not from VW, as evidenced by the non-adjusting arms.
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Eric&Barb
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Yes, dealer option only. The ZVW part number and "Distributed by VW of America" gives that away.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:47 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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8 tears of rust remind many owners that those ghastly things were once screwed to their steed.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Came on mine. They grow on ya. |
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robertsdunbar
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2019 7:28 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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| hello everyone I am trying to figure out how to install truck mirror on my 66 bus which it had installed later in it's life. I can see holes drilled above the wing/vent window on the passenger side but not on the drivers side. Neither door has visible holes, so does anyone know how to install these suckers. I know most people on these forums hate these mirrors but my bus is a daily driver and a weekend camper and I really don't want to hit anyone and I can't bloody see with the elephant ear mirrors that are installed. If anyone knows or has a link to point me to that would be super awesome. Robert |
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Eric&Barb
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:40 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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You have to drill holes.
Found lots of good images of the mirrors in the Gallery and two shots of the template, but too far away from the camera to be really useable:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php...t_dir=DESC
Each image in the gallery has a search feature to see what threads the image was used in.... Or you could contact the fellows that posted the template images.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2019 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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| .. I know most people on these forums hate these mirrors but my bus is a daily driver and a weekend camper and I really don't want to hit anyone and I can't bloody see with the elephant ear mirrors that are installed. ...Robert |
i would rather run over my trashcan once a week than install this ugly things on a bus. I know that does not answer your question, but it may save you a lot of time.... installing them first, then removing the original mirror arms, and then coming to your senses, uninstalling those things, then doing the body and paint work needed to fix the holes, then re-installing the mirrors that belong there and have sufficed for decades....
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2019 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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I love the truck mirrors myself. Seeing behind you and having no blind spots is always cool. If I could have found an original set when I was look I would have drilled the holes and added them.
This is my friends old bus that I drooled over. I don't think he was in love with the mirrors but I always told him how cool they we're every time I seen his bus.
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LAGrunthaner
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 3:13 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Glad to see this thread pop up again. robertsdunbar, please post your bus and keep us updated.
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| hello everyone I am trying to figure out how to install truck mirror on my 66 bus which it had installed later in it's life. I can see holes drilled above the wing/vent window on the passenger side but not on the drivers side. Neither door has visible holes, so does anyone know how to install these suckers. I know most people on these forums hate these mirrors but my bus is a daily driver and a weekend camper and I really don't want to hit anyone and I can't bloody see with the elephant ear mirrors that are installed. If anyone knows or has a link to point me to that would be super awesome. Robert |
Dustin B I agree love them too. For all the others, ugly maybe, practical absolutely. My German side says ugly is cool 
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I love the truck mirrors myself. Seeing behind you and having no blind spots is always cool. If I could have found an original set when I was look I would have drilled the holes and added them.
This is my friends old bus that I drooled over. I don't think he was in love with the mirrors but I always told him how cool they we're every time I seen his bus.
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| Have you considered simply starting with a nicer bus? I don't know what your skills are, but the race is easier if you can see the finish line. If you are not a runner, don't start off doing a marathon. |
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robertsdunbar
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:50 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Thank you everyone for the replies... I'm gonna check the bentley manual and see if there is anything in there about how to do this job, maybe even check with my mechanic. I figured I might have to drill holes...so in light of that I'll contemplate doing a step by step for folks who want to put these mirrors on. I and my wife inherited the bus from her dad who bought it special order in Belin in 1965.
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Eric&Barb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:21 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Are those mirrors the OG ones or the much later repros? The latter are junk and vibrate too much to let one see behind.
Have you started a thread on your bus? If not, please do! Also then you can post a closer image of the mirrors you have.
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robertsdunbar
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 10:32 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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| I have one of the original mirrors, one was destroyed in a car accident with a poll back in the late 70s, so the new one was one that I bought on the classified section that was original in the VW box. |
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lurkinstock
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 11:07 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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My single cab came with truck mirrors when I bought it. I've since taken them off and installed the correct driverside mirror. The truck mirrors require you to drill 4 holes per door. Two above the wing window and two for the truck mirror base which ends up being on the raised section of the doors just below the wing window. You can see on the picture that I posted of when I first bought my 59 scab.
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doublecabmel
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:32 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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| I had those hideous giant mirrors on my all original 67 DC. I hated them forever and tossed them in the 80s, pre internet, and went with repro smaller VW ones. What a mistake! D'oh! |
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zozo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 4:08 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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From the vintage bus pics thread.
These are rather interesting. Looks to have a telescoping arm. Could be a "best of both worlds" solution.
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earlywesty
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| Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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| robertsdunbar wrote: |
Thank you everyone for the replies... I'm gonna check the bentley manual and see if there is anything in there about how to do this job, maybe even check with my mechanic. I figured I might have to drill holes...so in light of that I'll contemplate doing a step by step for folks who want to put these mirrors on. I and my wife inherited the bus from her dad who bought it special order in Belin in 1965.
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Please, please resist the urge to do this to that unique dormobile westfalia. |
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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| LAGrunthaner wrote: |
Show us your truck mirrors. |
Here I am in my first car, a '66 bus. I found the mirrors on a bus in a junkyard. I loved them because they fit the '70s custom van look, and nobody else had them.
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LAGrunthaner
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| Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:24 am Post subject: Re: Were truck mirrors really an option? |
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Blue Baron, I love the term "70's custom van look"what a flashback! Cool "van" too
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| LAGrunthaner wrote: |
Show us your truck mirrors. |
Here I am in my first car, a '66 bus. I found the mirrors on a bus in a junkyard. I loved them because they fit the '70s custom van look, and nobody else had them.
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