Door Mirrors

[Maxwell]

Can anyone advise whether the TR7 ever came with chrome door mirrors, or were they always black?

Maxwell [:)]

<b>2.0 TR7 Drop head \ Maxwell \ sold
2.0 TR7 Fixed head \ Robyn \ sold
3.5 TR7 V8 Drop head \ Oliver \ sold


2.0 TR7 Fixed head \ Ben \ current
0.7 Smart Roadster \ Oscar \ current</b>

[Beans]

Black indeed, but you can use the stainless steel/chromium plated variant used on many many other cars.
You only have to (chromium) plate the base, which being a rather poor quality alloy, can be tricky.
And yes it has been done [:p]



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<font color="blue"><i>1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, now restored and back on the road)
1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)</font id="blue">
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[DNK]

Wish my rear of the car sat like that

Don
Stick a Wedge In It
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

[Beans]

Put some weight in the boot [:D]

I was glad when I fitted her with longer springs, shortly after that picture was taken.

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<font color="blue"><i>1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, now restored and back on the road)
1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)</font id="blue">
<b>[url="http://www.tr7beans.blogspot.com/"]<u><b><font size="3"><font color="red">My full Weblog</font id="red"></font id="size3"></b></u>[/url]</b></i></center>

[gaz]

"Put some weight in the back"

If you do this make sure you Gag her or she'll scream louder than a viscous coupling on its way out



http://mytr7.weebly.com/

1981 DHC 2.0 Litre
1980 DHC pedal car
1976 FHC 2.0 Litre

[supercass]

The exact shape base and top that was used on the TR7 was available in stainless steel and chrome. (stainless top, chrome plated base.) Regards,supercass

[Odd]

Yes, and the key word is <b>was</b>
- the shape of the 'stem' part have changed over the years.
The one currently available from Tex Automotive is truly different
from the one used 30+ years ago...


So the ideal mirror to fit onto the Wedge is an amagamation of two mirrors:
The modern day (convex anti-dazzle glass) stainless mirror head (with its vastly improved friction/ball unit), and
the then mirror stem (since it holds the mirror slightly aft and less obscured by the window frame)

The difference in pivot ball design can be seen here:


And here you can see all the different holders they've tried over the years. The only GOOD one is my personal (will outlive the car) stainless design... [8D]



Cheers,
/Odd

[frankman]

Heh Odd

Super report, with the arrows and the comparison Bravo![8D]

Hello from Switzerland

Frank

[DNK]

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<font size="3">Heh Odd Super report, with the arrows and the comparison Bravo!</font id="size3">[8D]Frank
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From Alice's Restaurant

"and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us."
[:D]

Don
Stick a Wedge In It
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

[rgsSpider]

Odd you have no idea how helpful your pictures were during my mirror project! Thanks for your hard work.

Randy

1980 TR7 <font color="red">Spider!</font id="red">
http://rgstr7spider.tumblr.com/

[zekow1]

Odd great Pictures
i have a problem with the tec type plastic piece.The mirror falls of all the time , the screw eat it up.
Thanks

Started on 07 2008 still needs tweaking