Hi
I'm doing my own repair of my rearview mirror and am a bit puzzled about something. To clear it up, what I need from someone is a closeup picture of the passenger and driver map lights on a "good" mirror. The reason is that I recently suffered the mirror failure and the nasty liquid was leaking from around the passenger map light. When I looked up at the map light lens, there was some obvious cloudy stuff on the inside of the lens covering the part of the lens closest to the center of the mirror. I assumed that this was deposits due to the leaking liquid, but now that I have it all apart, I"m not so sure.
This deposit material is sort of like dried glue and is an off-white colour. I am wondering if this was indeed glue used in the factory to hold the lens together. It doesn't make sense, I agree, but I'd like to confirm. Hence the request for a picture of other's map light taken from below.
I have looked at the other pictures available on the various mirror posts in this forum and only one shows the lens in detail. On that photo, which is from a failed mirror, I also see the same deposit inside the map light lens, albiet not so much as on mine. Can anyone have a look at theirs to confirm if there is some glue-like material obscuring part of their passenger map light lens?
Ron