# Replacing passernger side mirror

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/replacing-passernger-side-mirror/36172>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** outback, subaru\
**Created:** [September 5, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/replacing-passernger-side-mirror/36172 "2009-09-05T18:18:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![prosperity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@prosperity](https://community.cartalk.com/u/prosperity)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/replacing-passernger-side-mirror/36172/1 "2009-09-05T18:18:34Z")

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Hi Guys,  
  
 I have a cracked passenger side mirror on my 2000 Subaru Outback. Is there anyway I can replace just the glass to avoid the cost of replacing the entire device?  
  
 Thanks a bunch!  
  
 Kate from Pacific Palisades CA 🙂

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/replacing-passernger-side-mirror/36172/2 "2009-09-05T18:36:11Z")

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Yup. The parts stores sell a sitck on mirror face for $10. You cut it with shears (or good scissors) to size and stick it over the old surface.

I just used some for another project. I constructed a sliding visor mirror extension to elongate the visor field and used it to put a mirror on the extension.

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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/replacing-passernger-side-mirror/36172/3 "2009-09-05T18:37:59Z")

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I would recommend that you go to a glsss shop. I had the glass fall out of the right hand mirror on my 1978 Oldsmobile some time back. I ordered the replacement glass from the dealer. Not only was the price too high, but when I peeled off the backing paper, the glue was dried out. In desperation, I took the car to a body shop at a Chrysler-Plymouth dealership that has been helpful to me before. The body shop manager couldn’t believe the price I had to pay for the glass. He said that the glass shop where he subcontracts windshield replacement was coming to his shop for a job that afternoon and had me leave the car. When I came back later the mirror was fixed and there was no charge. The body shop manager said that I had been through enough already. He said that for these problems, just take it to a glass shop. They will cut a mirror and install it.

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**Author:** ![prosperity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@prosperity](https://community.cartalk.com/u/prosperity)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/replacing-passernger-side-mirror/36172/4 "2009-09-05T18:52:14Z")

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I appreciate your help with this. An entire new mirror device is $65.00 online. I am sure the glass will be much less.  
Many thanks,  
Kate

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**Author:** ![Beadsandbeads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@Beadsandbeads](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Beadsandbeads)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/replacing-passernger-side-mirror/36172/5 "2009-09-06T03:04:27Z")

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On some cars the mirror and backing pull out and you pop a new one back in.