Last night when I was driving home on the dual carriageway when I heard a massive thud against my passenger side window. Initially I thought I had hit an animal, but when I pulled over at the next lay-by to assess the damage, it turned out the cover and mirror to my wing mirror had completely detached itself from the car, but the wiring and base remained. I was driving at the time, about 60-70mph, but there were no other vehicles present and I was driving in the left lane.

There is some cosmetic damage from the impact, including a small dent and some scratches, but I’m reassessing it this morning in the daylight and will upload some photos.

One thing to note is that earlier during the day I was regularly unloading my car and every time I shut the boot I heard a clunk/thud noise. I also noticed a bit of intermittent rattling on the car on the way home, but when I stopped at the services, I couldn’t find anything and didn’t even contemplate it could be the wing mirror.

Just a bit confused really as I am not technical in the slightest, but fail to see how the wing mirror could simply fall away? Are they easy to tamper with? I don’t want to pay out a fortune so am off to my local bodyshop today for a quote, but I was wondering if anyone here had experienced anything similar or could tell me how much a replacement wing mirror would cost?

Many thanks

I cant see how it would just detatch itself, they are pretty well fixed to the car.

Not good steph. Would anyone have been able to catch your wing mirror anytime previously to cause it to come loose?

Thanks, guys. That's what I thought, Tez. I'm really careful where I park usually but over the weekend I've had to park on a residential street and use a busy carpark. I'm wondering if someone has whacked it and then it's become loose, hence the rattling noise? I definitely haven't hit it myself. Just gutted, really

I have removed a mirror off a 54 reg fiesta and it had a bolt and a locating peg which had a c-clip fitted to stop the peg moving, so pretty well secure to be honest, if the base is still attached it sounds like the bolt and peg are ok, so maybe someone has banged the mirror like you have said, or tried to have it away.

Thanks for your input, Tez. Understand a bit more now. Got it booked in now for Wed for new mirror to be fitted and door resprayed.

if this happened to mine, it would just fall off, as the wiring is not attached to anything.

but if i recall there were 2 clips and a fairly decent sized bolt from the inside of the car

hope it doesnt cost you to much steph

£250 for the new mirror itself, to be fixed, sprayed and have my dent knocked out, scratches removed and door resprayed. Could have been worse

not cheap then!

Mirror cost £120 alone. I would attempt it myself but don't know what I'm doing and I don't like driving without my mirrors.

fair enough

120 for the mirror?

i got one of mine for £30 from a parts warehouse place thing (the other was same price from that guy breaking his ST a while ago)

That's expensive! Bad news that Steph, sorry to hear it

Could you have hit anything on the carriageway?