The rear view mirror for my 69 convert needs some help. Everything on it cleaned up very well except the mirror itself. I hate to spend $60(I'm cheap) on a repro mirror when all I need is to replace the glass.

Anyone have any experience replacing the mirror itself? Or am I doomed to buying a whole new assembly?

Wow, I just got on, to ask almost the same question. I removed the mirror from a couple of units, and had them sent out for resilver. One came back great, the other came back horrible. It was resilvered, but you could see the original discoloration.
Well, I was at a swap meet on the Fourth, and picked up a maplight Rearview mirror. It needs resilver, but I don't want to use the same guy.

Anyone know where I might send it to get it resilvered?

I haven't tried yet, but how did the unit come apart? Did you just pry the gray rubber off? Did anything break or crack?

Yeah, what Paul said. How did it come apart?

-Funk

Use a hair dryer to soften up the housing and then use a plastic putty knife. Once you get the knife started in one spot, gently run around the perimeter until the glass pops out.

OK....Where can you get a new piece of glass for it? After you get the new glass do you need to glue the rubber back in or is it a press fit?

The rubber surround has a lip that the glass fits into. I looked online today, and found a place that will resilver a car mirror for $32.00 I forget the company name, but do a search fir "resilver mirror" If you want to give up the day/night feature, you can get a mirror at any glass place. I'm holding out for a good replacement. I traced the outline of the mirror, today and stuck it in my wallet. I'll look in a junkyard for a late model mirror, that is "close" then I'll take it to a glass shop, and have it ground to the correct shape.

Thank you sir, thank you very much.

-Funk

Go to a windshield replacement place. The ones around this area will replace BROKEN (wink wink) glass in rear-view mirrors for free.

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68 Coupe, 350 4-speed
Jim's Camaro Corner (http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxu109/)

I asked this question several months ago and someone on here also suggested trying antique shops, since they do a lot of old mirrors.

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Kevin

68 Camaro SS - 383, Edlebrock Performer RPM, Trick Flow 23 degree heads, edlebrock 750cfm carb, dynomax headers, Tremec TKO, 4.10 Posi