How do I find these mirrors & will this other mirror fit?
October 19, 2007 9:24 PM Subscribe
Will this replacement side-view mirror fit my Ford van? I have been researching for days and can't find an answer.
Both of the sideview mirrors on my '05 Ford E-350 Super Duty van keep getting the glass torn out in my neighborhood. I've replaced them at the dealership with the fancy electric-controlled dual-glass Ford part, but it's extremely expensive and the theft just happens again the next night. They've gotten 5 mirrors so far and I am just about out of moneys.
I see some of these manual-adjustable single-glass parts in the neighborhood on E-350 vans. They don't seem as attractive to the sticky-fingered set. I want to install them! But the 7,000 online parts dealers I've found all have the same system: you put in your year, make, model, and what kind of parts you're looking for, and they show off what's in stock. This gets me always to the Kool-Vue part #FD24R (linked above) for $85 to $100. But! Nobody anywhere seems to have the driver's side half of the set. The kool-vue site doesn't seem to list it. Is it discontinued? I wrote to the two mails listed on the kool-vue site and one bounced, the other didn't earn me a reply.
So I guess my first question is: does anyone know where I could track down the damn Kool-Vue part #FD24L (maybe alternately called part #F4UZ17683A? I am extrapolating from here).
And then the question I came here to post: will this other part, #FD23L and #FD23R, fit my van? These look the same to me but maybe they have the bolts in a slightly different spot. I find them listed at the various web retailers as fitting E350 vans 1999 to 2002. Could I maybe find someone in Brooklyn to rig them up on my 2005?
I am glad to do phone work on this but I just don't know where to find an expert. The Ford dealerships all tell me to go screw myself when I bring up 3-rd party parts, and I can't handle the part they sell me at the dealership getting stolen again. It is too heartbreaking. Plus I've spent 1100 bucks there and currently have no mirrors.
Please advise.
Both of the sideview mirrors on my '05 Ford E-350 Super Duty van keep getting the glass torn out in my neighborhood. I've replaced them at the dealership with the fancy electric-controlled dual-glass Ford part, but it's extremely expensive and the theft just happens again the next night. They've gotten 5 mirrors so far and I am just about out of moneys.
I see some of these manual-adjustable single-glass parts in the neighborhood on E-350 vans. They don't seem as attractive to the sticky-fingered set. I want to install them! But the 7,000 online parts dealers I've found all have the same system: you put in your year, make, model, and what kind of parts you're looking for, and they show off what's in stock. This gets me always to the Kool-Vue part #FD24R (linked above) for $85 to $100. But! Nobody anywhere seems to have the driver's side half of the set. The kool-vue site doesn't seem to list it. Is it discontinued? I wrote to the two mails listed on the kool-vue site and one bounced, the other didn't earn me a reply.
So I guess my first question is: does anyone know where I could track down the damn Kool-Vue part #FD24L (maybe alternately called part #F4UZ17683A? I am extrapolating from here).
And then the question I came here to post: will this other part, #FD23L and #FD23R, fit my van? These look the same to me but maybe they have the bolts in a slightly different spot. I find them listed at the various web retailers as fitting E350 vans 1999 to 2002. Could I maybe find someone in Brooklyn to rig them up on my 2005?
I am glad to do phone work on this but I just don't know where to find an expert. The Ford dealerships all tell me to go screw myself when I bring up 3-rd party parts, and I can't handle the part they sell me at the dealership getting stolen again. It is too heartbreaking. Plus I've spent 1100 bucks there and currently have no mirrors.
Please advise.
Response by poster: Yeah, rock auto has the passenger's side half of the pair, just like everyone else. It's got me buffaloed.
posted by damehex at 11:20 AM on October 20, 2007
posted by damehex at 11:20 AM on October 20, 2007
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posted by sanka at 11:37 PM on October 19, 2007