Fold those mirrors in at the auto wash folks. Some interesting things I’ve learned:

[Mach Turtle]

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the part with the arm that attaches to the door is back on the truck to keep water and weather out. The round thing is the power adjustment mechanism. The big black thing is the internal structure the smaller black thing with the wires running through it is the part that actually broke. Across the bottom is the blinker a trim piece and the thermometer. The outer ring trim is in the shadow at the top. Not pictured is the light and camera component, and the cap.

Thanks for the photo and description!

Hope that Raptor mirror structure swaps in with minimal trouble.

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[Larryumo]

Obviously, fold the mirrors in at the auto wash. I’ve been through this tunnel at least 2 dozen times without issue. Sometimes it would fold my mirrors one way or another, but until now, they always just folded back. This time, there was a distinctly loud pop and my passenger side mirror was now all floppy on the folding and pretty much useless as a mirror. I thought maybe something just popped out of place, and I tried to reseat it, but no luck. It’s toast. I pulled it off when I got home, and started pulling it apart to see if I could fix it, but yeah, it cracked in multiple places. $1500 on ford parts?! $500 on ebay for one that I hope is close enough. To prevent any water/weather intrusion I put the trim piece back on. So here’s the interesting things. FWIW I have the XLT but with the upgrade to the 360 cameras.

• No cross traffic alerts. This was surprising, as I thought those sensors were in the tail lights and rear camera.
• No blind spot detection, makes sense kind of, again I thought that was in the tail light, but there would be no way to indicate to me if the mirror is gone. Surprised me it won’t even try on the driver side.
  • Aggravating part of this is that any time a pop up happens on the gauge cluster, even a seatbelt unbuckling, I get reminded that BLISS isn’t working. But other than that, it’s not a constant alarm or anything.
• Backup camera works, but on the 360 view, there’s a big blue zone. No surprise there.
• Cameras when driving do not work, even the bed camera. They work for a moment then just kind of freak out and go back to the home screen or carplay.
• LKA and ACC work just fine. I thought the lack of cross traffic and blind spot might make this a problem, but I guess those aren’t tied together at all. No Bluecruise, so couldn’t test that.
• These mirrors kind of justify the price tag, when you factor in the normal price gouging one expects from Ford parts.
  • There’s more wiring in them than my first desktop computer. And it’s wired after the base structure is assembled as the connectors can’t fit through the channels built into the structure.
  • The camera uses a mini COAX connection that is separate from the rest of the wiring harness, but taped together.
  • There’s about a whole role of electrical tape as wires join and split from the wiring bundle to various things.
  • BLISS components, defroster, power aiming, blinker light, flood/puddle/zone light, camera,.
• Biggest surprise last, I have no external temperature display on the gauge or infotainment. Looks like the thermometer is built into the passenger side mirror. It looks like a little nipple under the arm. Want to lightly vandalize someone’s truck in a near undetectable way? Grab that with a pair of pliers and yank. They’ll lose their temp display and not know why. I had no idea the thermometer was built into the mirror till now.

Anyway, if anyone wants some pic of the internals, let me know. For now I’m awaiting my ebay mirror off a Raptor, looks like it matches up correctly, camera and all. I’m hoping to just get away with swapping in my old color matched cap. In the mean time, I’m adjust to driving without a mirror and all those nice safety aids built in to it. I’ll post back when I get the new one and swap it in.

 

[Larryumo]

If you have pictures of the internals, lease post them.
larry

 

[invertedspear]

If you have pictures of the internals, lease post them.
larry

Look at post 11 on this thread.

 

[mrau]

Always wanted to know where the outside temp sensor was. Thanks.

 

[Randall Stephens]

Sorry my friend, it was my way of calling attention to how impossible it would be to notice if something like that happened. Poor humor on my part.



No option for power folding on the XLT.



I thought I described it but I didn’t give a lot of detail. Spinning brushes in the wash tunnel would always shove my mirrors back and forth. This time it was more than the cylinder could handle. Made a loud pop when the brushes hit it this time and now it wouldn’t click into place anymore, so wouldn’t stay in the "deployed" position.


yeah, it was pretty normal to have both mirrors get folded all the way forward and then back to the normal position two or three times each pass through the tunnel.

Ah thanks for the explanation. I only do touch less so I had no idea.

 

[Wendy]

In Washington State we just leave the car out overnight and you get a free carwash.

 

[MaintGrl]

Touch-Less or Hand Wash only. A motto to live by.

I had a 06 4x4 Taco, I was lax about washing it and the clear coat suffered, after it got totaled and I got 20k for it (Low Miles) I bought the lightning. I made a pact with myself that I would wash the lightning every month. THAT, would be a HAND wash here @ Home. I ceramic coated the paint shortly after buying the truck.

 

[invertedspear]

Raptor mirror came in today. Fit right up and everything worked so I changed the cap and it’s looking good. The unpainted parts are a little more aged than what I took off, but I’m sure that will even out in time with the sun of the Sonoran desert.

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