Does anybody know if the electric folding mirrors have some form of failsafe mechanism in them to prevent damage if they are forced inwards, ie by hitting something?
Reason i ask is i had an unfortunate coming together with a pigeon last night - ****** thing flew straight at my car - hit mirror, caused mirror glass to pop out and hit side window (causing big scratch). At first thought the mirror was kaput as it was all free moving, however after twisting the fold in/out button a couple of times it seems to be folding in and out again (and the glass just clipped back in as was un-broken). Can't work out now if the mirror is a little bit more noisy folding out/in now or whether i'm imagining - so just wondered if anyone knew for sure that forcing inwards against their will will/won't damage anything? Normal non fold in mirrors generally have some sort of spring mechanism to protect against this - wondered if something similar here.
Also scratch on glass - not so much as a deep scratch more of a graze or 'etch' on surface of window - anyone successfully had a scratch or graze polished out of glass or is it just not possible - seems to be kits avaialble on web but don't know how effective these are?
Other option i guess is to get a new window. Thing is i want original glass (pilkington, with audi logo etc so it matches the other glass) - if i order from audi themselves (as opposed to autoglass etc) will i get an exact replacement piece of glass complete with correct branding/coding etc?
Maybe i'm better getting an original pice of glass from a breakers yard???
grrrrrrrrrr ****** bird.
Reason i ask is i had an unfortunate coming together with a pigeon last night - ****** thing flew straight at my car - hit mirror, caused mirror glass to pop out and hit side window (causing big scratch). At first thought the mirror was kaput as it was all free moving, however after twisting the fold in/out button a couple of times it seems to be folding in and out again (and the glass just clipped back in as was un-broken). Can't work out now if the mirror is a little bit more noisy folding out/in now or whether i'm imagining - so just wondered if anyone knew for sure that forcing inwards against their will will/won't damage anything? Normal non fold in mirrors generally have some sort of spring mechanism to protect against this - wondered if something similar here.
Also scratch on glass - not so much as a deep scratch more of a graze or 'etch' on surface of window - anyone successfully had a scratch or graze polished out of glass or is it just not possible - seems to be kits avaialble on web but don't know how effective these are?
Other option i guess is to get a new window. Thing is i want original glass (pilkington, with audi logo etc so it matches the other glass) - if i order from audi themselves (as opposed to autoglass etc) will i get an exact replacement piece of glass complete with correct branding/coding etc?
Maybe i'm better getting an original pice of glass from a breakers yard???
grrrrrrrrrr ****** bird.
