Thank you, it work for me. The side glass mirrors are no longer auto-adjust every time I unlock the car. That was driving me nuts for 5 years.

Thanks for posting this…and leaving it up!!! - LOL….Not sure why some people can be DB’s. I was dealing with the phantom issue for years - I decided to see if there was a fix…without this video I would not have known… I needed to clean the female connector with a torch tip cleaner…also the dielectric grease wouldn’t allow a strong enough connection, so I needed to clean the connectors with contact cleaner and leave them naked - not ideal, and I may need to clean the connectors periodically, but at least the mirror is working correctly now. Thanks again!

This worked like a charm to fix the same issue I was having. Thanks!

This video is helpful insofar as it shows you how to gently separate the mirror portion from baseplate rotator behind the mirror on most modern Bmws.

Don’t make me do a video of how to use a Q-Tip to install dis-electric grease. LOL. Good job on the fix.

Thanks! One other things folks can try. Apparently the mirrors can get confused where they are and show the same problem (mirror goes all the way forward). I used the recalibration procedure in the video that follows to fix it. I had to do it twice, though, and the second time I held the folding switch in for quite a while after the mirrors closed. That fixed it. Certainly worth giving it a shot. ​@​

Completely different issues. I agree with the last post by Tol. The spring/pin the locks in place needs lubricating. Not sure if it is a closed system or accessible. But there is a drill hole fix floating around. You just have to be super careful not to drill to far. Easy for mechanically inclined

Thanks so much for posting this - just finished doing on my 323i 2011 - hope it works - great video btw

Thank you for the video. It fixes problem!

Thank you. Big big help. 👌👌👌

THANKYOU! This helped my to un-jam my mirror.

Wow! Very helpful and informative 😃

Dielectric grease is non-conductive, using it directly on the pins actually prohibiting the connection. Its for use on say rubber boots to spark plug porcelain to seal and lubricate the surfaces. What your looking to use is NO-OX-ID conductive contact grease. Everybody gets it wrong, took me 30 years to learn the difference.

Thank youu

I have this problem. The Mirror (not the mirror housing) wont go back into saved settings. I have been adjusting my mirror itself every time I drive for 11 years. Thanks for posting.

Good video, but, it doesn't work for the E46. It's a whole different beast.

thank you sir

New 2013 535i owner I have a problem where anytime I try to adjust the mirrors they just automatically lower all the way down even when I'm actively driving my shit broke or I'm doing something wrong

Isn't dielectric grease supposed to be used around the connector and not on the terminals themselves? I thought dielectric grease is used to insulate a connection (like on the rubber boot of a spark plug, not the terminal) and itself does not act as a conductor.

I have a 2009 E92. The driver's side power mirror will adjust up and down but not left and right. Will what you describe here fix that? Thanks for the video.

y is this fix so different from the last video i watched where the guy drilled a hole then lubricated a pin that needed to lock in place? This was really just cleaning the inside.

My passenger side mirror tilts down when reversing and doesn’t go back to set position would this help

This video shows a completely wrong & irrelevant procedure to fix mirror-folding-wrong-way problem, as some other folks mentioned here. Here's the youtube video with correct solution to this problem: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aqumbMWpp8m7fJ8.html BMW mirror folding the wrong way (outward) is due to a mechanical spring-loaded "homing pin" staying stuck in a "down" position (perhaps due to dirt or rust or whatever.) In normally operating mirrors this pin pops-up (it's all mechanical) when the mirror reaches an internal "home" position hole. In mirrors with outward folding problem, since the pin is stuck in a down position, the motor keeps running past it because the mechanism does not see the pin popup - hence it goes all the way to outmost end of mirror travel (which is why the mirror is all the way folded out.) FIX: Pop backside of the mirror out (where the motor is), if you can pull up the assembly even a couple of millimeters, you can spray WD40 through it to unblock (lubricate) the pin - fold/unfold the mirror a few times for WD40 to get in. If you can't fix it that way, then you'll have to make a tiny hole on top of the aluminum assembly cover and spray some WD40 inside the compartment to unblock that pin.

JUST FIXED THIS DIFFERENT WAY!!!! JUST SPRAYED A LOT OF WD40 UNDER THE ROTATING PART OF THE MIRROR. Remove plastic cower, then just pull whole mirror up (or bend it to the side) so there's a thin space under the rotating mechanism between the mirror and car holder. (Buy small 100ml WD40 with thin pipe, so you can squeeze it deeper into that 1mm space what you will have when pulling mirror up or bending it to the side. Note! You can pull or bend it just slightly, just few millimeters). Spray WD40 into that space aiming to the area, where this stuck thing is located (that thing with spring, what this guy in video oiling in the end), keep removing excessive WD40 with paper towel. Rotate left right, shake a bit the whole mirror, not too much, don't damage anything, then repeat. After a while (in 5 minutes or may be 1 hour) oxidation on the lock will be gone, the mechanism will get unlocked and working again. No need to damage the mirror. Then just put plastic cower back.

The Folding mechanism failure and the Mirror glass adjustment actuator (from this video) are not related. You will not solve the folding issue this way.

Fixing side mirrors on BMW

Really ? Latex glove for dielectric grease.

Kubrick level video

It's not working for my 325i 2006. Any other suggestion of how to fix it?

Yo dude, pull this video down...your putting out wrong info....