Hello, i have noticed that on a driver side it takes ages to defrost mirror every morning. On a passenger side it takes 30seconds, on a driver side it takes 5 minutes to defrost. Do i have to buy another heated glass? I am afraid of putting a copy glass, maybe the picture quality wouldnt be the same again. Any thoughts, ideas?

 

 

Pop the mirror off and see if the terminals need cleaning up? 5 minutes with a wire brush and a multi-meter if you have one could save you the trouble of getting new glass.

I have checked the mirror it appears that mirror itself unglued from the plastic frame at back and most probably damaged the heating wires. I did glue it back to the frame but i dont believe this solve my heating problem.

Change the mirror glass, it's cheap and easy to do.

Also clean the contacts and spray them with a contact cleaner.

The heating resistances for left and right mirrors are equal (100 ohms as i remember) so they must perform the same way. 

Edited 25 October, 20187 yr by Lucian84

You will get a non genuine mirror when you find out how much they are at the dealer......

 

I'm not so confident that a copy for 10 euros is the same quality as the original. More concern on the mirror itself and the reflection quality. How much it cost original? Approximatelly?

16 minutes ago, Mevden said:

I'm not so confident that a copy for 10 euros is the same quality as the original. More concern on the mirror itself and the reflection quality. How much it cost original? Approximatelly?

 

I can't remember, I have £80 in my head but I would give your dealer and ring and see. In comparison I got a complete mirror assembly at the time that was electrically adjustable and came with a heated mirror glass for £40 (ebay)and the quality of the glass itself was just as good as original part.

Edited 25 October, 20187 yr by SuperbTWM

Called a dealer today and he said around 70euros for a new mirror. Maybe i could try to get something between, not for 10 euros but around 30,40 if the quality can match the original

If it's one with an outer blind-spot section with a vertical line in between it and the main part (so called 'aspherical' I think) beware of aftermarket versions where the outer part is divided off by the same sort of vertical line, but it doesn't actually focus any differently than the main area. So it doesn't show you what's in your 'blind spot' at all.

I am thinking of buying one with the vertical line for 10 euros. If it wont be too good i would use it only during winter, when temperature increases i could change back with original.

One more thing, this is for second car. I do with octavia maximum 10km per day in the city.

Regarding the aspheric blind spot.

 

I have recently brought a RHD Octavia over here to register in France so the aspheric mirror is on the wrong side, thankfully the LH one had become unstuck and had been unsuccessfully bodged so I replaced it with a cheapy €10 one with the line and whilst it is an improvement there is still a blind spot, in fact this car is far far worse than my MK1 for blind spots everywhere especially from the enlarged A and B pillars and the position of the passenger seat and headrest relative to the B pillar.

 

So I have presumably a pukka aspheric mirror on the RHS and a suspect one on the LHS, what is the best way of testing to see if they are correct?

Don't think aspheric mirrors will work when viewed at the sort of angle you'll get across the car. Not sure on that, but to tell if you have a real or fake one just watch a car as it moves from one side of the vertical line to the other (maybe get a passenger in the left front seat to try it in your case). For a real blind spot mirror you'll notice distortion of the car's image as it crosses that vertical line. With a fake mirror it'll just move smoothly across.

Edited 25 October, 20187 yr by Wino

Original in octavia is most probably aspheric mirror? I would like to have the same, no complaints on original.

On driver's side only, I believe, other side has no line down it?

Driver side has vertical line. Passenger side no. So if there is vertical line,that means aspheric?

Yes, unless it's a fake aspheric, in which case it's just a normal mirror with a line painted on it.

Wino, I had indeed wondered  that the mirror  was aspheric but does not do what I want it to do because I am viewing it from effectively the passengers seat, the younger dumber me would have driven from the passenger seat to find out! I will just leave it as a mystery!!

 

It is marginally better than the plain one that it replaced but not as effective as the drivers side one, after a few broken mirrors on my MK1 Octavia I ended up with an aspheric one on the left and the result was the same.

Edited 25 October, 20187 yr by J.R.

Indeed. I have a vertical line, but i do not see any difference in the corner of the mirror