Wobbly Rear View Mirror

[Crogers]

Hi

 

Just picked up my vRS and the only small thing I have noticed is the rear view mirror wobbles like jelly, has anyone else experienced this?

 

 

[Oldfellah]

Absolutely not. Solid as a rock and the image remains sharp. Seems you have a problem somewhere   Perhaps try to feel what's vibrating when it shouldn't e.g. mirror itself or the whole mounting.

[Crogers]

It only seems to do it when the car is idle which I odd!

[skovirg]

No wobbles or shakes here.

[Crogers]

I shall return it for a full refund!

[Oldfellah]

Crogers. I didn't ask whether yours is a diesel or petrol vRS: mine's a petrol. I can imagine that the diesel at idle might produce a greater vibration, and possibly the mirror mounting just resonates at that frequency. Funny nobody else seems to have mentioned it - or have they? If you increase the revs a tiny bit does it go away? If so, maybe the dealer can reset the idle to be at a non-mirror-shaking speed.

[Neily03]

 If so, maybe the dealer can reset the idle to be at a non-mirror-shaking speed.

 

Surely the common sense fix is the replace his faulty rear view mirror than raise the idle, burn more fuel and basically cost the OP in more fuel?

 

Mine doesn't wobble at all and neither did the one in my mkII.

[skovirg]

Crogers. I didn't ask whether yours is a diesel or petrol vRS: mine's a petrol. I can imagine that the diesel at idle might produce a greater vibration, and possibly the mirror mounting just resonates at that frequency. Funny nobody else seems to have mentioned it - or have they? If you increase the revs a tiny bit does it go away? If so, maybe the dealer can reset the idle to be at a non-mirror-shaking speed.

 

Noooo!

 

Get the dealer to fix the mirror or its mount. Anything else is a bodge job. This maybe ok for a backstreet used car seller but not for a 25k new car. My advise is get them to fix it properly and that doesn't mean adjusting what is engineered and designed to be the optimal idle speed.

[Crogers]

It's a diesel, and It gets a a lot better as soon as the revs increase, so I shall pop it back, thanks everyone for the input.

[biggy7]

On 08/06/2014 at 22:41, Crogers said:

It's a diesel, and It gets a a lot better as soon as the revs increase, so I shall pop it back, thanks everyone for the input.

 

sorry to bump an old thread

 

got my new VRS MK3 Diesel today on Lease and the rear view mirror also wobbles alot which doesn't see right

 

did you get this sorted @Crogers ? was it a dealer visit?

[Crogers]

I believe it was, I think they tightened someone, it's was 2 cars ago so my memeort isn't 100% if I am honest! 

[biggy7]

21 minutes ago, Crogers said:

I believe it was, I think they tightened someone, it's was 2 cars ago so my memeort isn't 100% if I am honest! 

 

hehe thanks mate

[furn]

hi mate my vrs 230 had a wobbly rear view mirror, it must be a regular problem as the salesman said his octavia did it and when the master tech took a look he said they have done a few but the replacement mirror was sometimes the same. i just tapped my mirror lightly and it vibrated.

Anyways I got my changed under warranty and its perfect now no wobble at all. 

[biggy7]

Currently sat in my local skoda dealer getting this fixed thanks to this thread. 

 

Tech did come out and tried to blame the dash cam usb cable which doesn't even run under the rear view mirror unit. 

 

Anyway. I showed him that there is no chance it was the cable and understood.

 

Hopefully it will be fixed  

[SkodaKing]

This is killing me at the moment, mine has started doing it. I have tried to take it apart but I can't get the front off.

 

Any updates? 

 

Ta