I'm glad my video was helpful! That's why I make them. I'd check salvage yards for even broken mirrors to get the parts you need. $2,500 for a new set is robbery.

You're welcome, that's my goal here! Once I get my computer working properly I'll be adding more how to videos.

Yours sound like they are totally different than these.

I don't. I've never taken one of those apart either. I'd have to assume that it's gonna come apart the same though. Once you're in there the differences should be pretty obvious, and probably pretty simple.

@@darkhorseautoanddiesel Thank you for reply. So far I know that there are two motors per mirror. Each arm has small motor with set of gears, and if only one stops working whole mirror will not fold/unfold. To get to this motors requires disassembling entire mirror. Lots of work.

I imagine it does somehow, but I've never tried to take the hinge apart. It's been a while since I've opened up one of these mirrors so I unfortunately don't even have any recommendations haha. The only thing I can suggest is watch the video and tear yours apart and see what you can figure out in there. It's not like you're out anything if you mess something up in the process. If you do try to figure it out, I'd like to know what you find. I always like to learn something new.

You're welcome.

I would imagine just carefully pop it off, but I'm not 100% sure. Never took one apart that was like that.

Did you figure it out? I just broke mine trying to pry it off!

Those are usually mounted in the front grille area. Definitely not in one of these mirrors.

@@gatekeepersgarage Thanks for the reply. I’ve done a bunch of digging on this. Apparently after 2010 or so they moved the ambient air temperature sensor to the passenger mirror. I saw one with my own two eyes on a 2011 lariat. However, my truck is Ford fleet truck. Apparently they don’t have ambient air temperature sensors, I believe they use MAFS data along with other sensors to get the air temp. I just ordered a new MAFS, fingers crossed. Thanks for the info!

That's good to know. I was unaware of the change.

Ambient sensor is on the lower edge of mirror housing, at the outer corner

These are manual telescope. I imagine the procedure is the same for most of it.

Mine is not power folding or power telescoping, so it's missing those 2 motors. The glass adjustment is 2 motors.

I just had to replace the whole mirror because my wife folded then in while towing on the freeway and I panicked and pushed the driver mirror back out when it wouldn't fold out on its own. It was $1100 for the drivers side power fold telescoping heated mirror 🤦 Of course Ford does not sell the $3 nylon gear that got stripped, so I had to buy the whole mirror.

The rail that allows it to telescope? A lot of lubrication, a dead blow hammer, and patience.

@@darkhorseautoanddiesel thanks!yes I did exactly what u said. But with a little off with the patience lol

So they are power telescope I assume? Something in the gears might be broken. The only advice I can give you is to open them up and see what's going on.

@Dark Horse Auto and Diesel Yes they are. You can hear and feel them making noise, but don't move out. Only had truck about 6 months.

You can buy caps

You should be able to buy just the cap.

As far as I know it's the same for all 08-16 mirrors. I won't promise that but I'd have to imagine it's the same. If it were me, I'd take the gamble. Worst case you just resell it. I can't imagine Ford would make that big of a change just based on special options.

@@darkhorseautoanddiesel Thats what my thought was, I figure its all one shell and only the internals differ since it would cost more to have multiple variations. And true I could sell or even return it if I dont mangle it up lol. Thanks brotha

See my video at justagaragehack. I had the same question so I bought the aftermarket and was able to keep my power fold and telescope. Made a video about it.

@yamahaMXrider125 Im in the same boat as you. I want to be able to swap my stuff in all the power folding to this 90$ amazon one i got. Were You able to do it?

@@yamahaMXrider125 did it work for you?

Thank you. Which wire are you trying to replace?

I'd have to say either a dealer or a junk yard. Might be able to find it on ebay or amazon.

I'm sure someone on Ebay or Facebook Marketplace would eventually. You might have better luck selling them individually, since I would imagine that most people buying the old style are only doing it to replace a broken one, not wanting to go through the work of upgrading.

That's not good. The glass I'm assuming?

@@darkhorseautoanddiesel Yep lol. It’s a 99’ so maybe that had something to do with it. Just going to cut a replacement from an old picture frame then spray paint it with mirror finish. I’m in the process of re wrapping them with vinyl

I've never taken apart a 99-07 mirror so I can't say if the glass is supposed come off the same way or not. You may have proven that it doesn't haha.

@@darkhorseautoanddiesel It came off. 3 clips around the mirror in a triangle form. I’m not sure what year tow mirrors though. They look similar to the one you did in this vid. But yeah… Lesson learned. Maybe I should have used wd40 first seeing all the rust inside of the light housing. Thx for the response also!

Yup I just did the same thing on my 2012. Thanks man