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Time to do a little change on the mirrors.

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It crossed my mind a few times before to add some sidemarkers into the mirror covers.

So I took the disc and disced a little sloth to fit 5mm thick plexiglass.

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Ofcourse I wanted carbon fiber on the mirros as wel.

So I added 3 layers of fiberglass fabric on the bottom

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Because the mirror was thicker at the bottom, I have everything worked out fine.

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This I wanted to do so, cause when the mirrors are painted, this will leave a beautiful marking.

Here you can also see that I have the caps threaded. So I can demount everything nicely

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Here you can see it on the outside. It’s only a discrete change.

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The next thing I must do is to provide the caps on the bottom with a layer of carbon.

These must be completey ready first. Once they’re done, I can adjust the rest 100% on to the thickness of the caps.

Everything must fit in the end.

I provided the polished caps with a layer of carbon fibre.

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Now there are three layers of epoxy on. Once everything is hardened, I can start sanding the epoxy tight.

Then I have one layer to set, and then there will probably be no more imperfections

I can’t complain about the glance though…

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The mirrors are in the basecoat. As you can see I changed one more thing.

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When I was satisfied with how it looked, I mounted the little motor and the glass. Just to see the total picture.

Because the glass sits about 3-4mm from the sides, you could see a bit of the little screw that holds the carbon plate.

Of course, this was a NO GO for me. So I made a little bump, so you can’t see the screw anymore. Once everything is painted silver, you won’t even notice the bump anymore.

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Nooo your not anal! lol If anybody was that close to your mirror that they could see that screw... well she better be bent over. Perfection beyond anyone's expectation.

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The mirrors are ready

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I also provided them with leds for when I open the door.

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About the indicator, I made some test pieces of 5mm thick plexiglass.

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I also sanded it (1200) cause I liked the light distribution better then.

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In this picture you can see that I didn’t follow the line on the front of the mirror.

It’s only a mm of 4, but I found it somewhere different.

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As for the lighting of the indicator itself, I’ve tried everything.

The best result came from a normal simple lightbulb that I colored with an orange sharpie.

On the inside of the mirror, I made a coverplate (polished and painted black) onto the plexy and the light.

I certainly did not want that the whole mirror would be lit when I used the indicator.

Everything is now mounted on the BMW, but I haven’t got the time to take pictures.

To be continued

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