Drivers side not heating, bit of a pain in all this misty rain, any ideas why it won't heat up, before I start pulling bits apart?

Have you checked fuse 38 (5 amp)? If not the fuse, it could be a faulty heater element or broken wire/s in the door bellows.

 

Edited 23 January, 20188 yr by TMB

Does each mirror have its own fuse then? 

47 minutes ago, Shubert said:

Does each mirror have its own fuse then? 

 

I don't think so but I wasn't sure if your car had only one heated mirror.

@Shubert My first thoughts on this would revolve around the door bellows or a burnt out element, particularly since AIUI the elements on Furbies are "always on" rather than only activated when the adjuster is neutralised and then the HRW is switched on.

On 24 January 2018 at 09:17, KenONeill said:

@Shubert My first thoughts on this would revolve around the door bellows or a burnt out element, particularly since AIUI the elements on Furbies are "always on" rather than only activated when the adjuster is neutralised and then the HRW is switched on.

I don't know what 90% of that means lol

The door bellows are these...

 

 

The element is integral with the mirror glass.

 

AIUI means 'as I understand it'.

 

 

 

 

awesome thanks

It's quite common for them to burn out if you constantly leave them on heat. 

 

If I remember rightly they constantly stay on unlike the rear heater. 

3 hours ago, stevobeavo said:

It's quite common for them to burn out if you constantly leave them on heat. 

 

If I remember rightly they constantly stay on unlike the rear heater. 

So they come on with the rear window heater, but stay on until you switch the car off? That's a bit pants if it is the case

Haven't you got a symbol on the mirror switch for them?

 

What I'm saying if you have you rear heater on that automatically turns off after a set time to avoid it burning out. The mirrors you have to manually turn off otherwise they stay consistently on. 

7 hours ago, stevobeavo said:

Haven't you got a symbol on the mirror switch for them?

 

What I'm saying if you have you rear heater on that automatically turns off after a set time to avoid it burning out. The mirrors you have to manually turn off otherwise they stay consistently on. 

There's a symbol for it on the mirror adjustment knob, I've always had it in the middle, unless I'm adjusting the mirrors, so how do I manually turn them off? 

Leave the switch on a mirror. 

There is a setting in VCDS to adjust the time the heated mirrors stay on, cannot remember the details off the top of my head but I adjusted mine to 10 or 15 minutes on as I always forget to turn them off.

What's a vcds? Sorry for all these questions

16 minutes ago, Shubert said:

What's a vcds? Sorry for all these questions

 

It's VW's diagnostic program that you use on a laptop with an appropriate cable to go from laptop to the car's diagnostic port which is behind the little cubby box on the driver's side.

 

http://www.ross-tech.com/vcds-lite/

 

 

Cable...

https://www.gendan.co.uk/product_VAGUSB.html

Edited 28 January, 20188 yr by TMB

I won't be doing that then, wasn't that long ago I learned to do email, lol, anyway I've found a replacment glass with heating element, how does the old mirror come out? Is there a secret nack, or is it jam a screwdriver in and just get it out?