Reversing mirror & MOT

[Grahame at work]

Hi,

will a cracked reversing mirror be a problem for the MOT?

Regards Grahame

[haydn callow]

If you mean the one hanging over the tailgate window, I think the answer is a defo NO it will not affect the MOT

[Grahame at work]

Thank you Haydn

[The_Gordons]

Ours went through it's MOT in March with a cracked tailgate mirror.

[Diplomat]

Any stories about how they get cracked?

Is there a pattern which might highlight cracking risk?

Frank

[jaylee]

Who knows Frank..?!!

"Locker punched" by passing fools..?

Slight inherent glass fitting stress compounded by years of boot slamming...?





..Or my favourite.. the Judderman!!



The Kwickfit wheel aligners arch enemy number 1.

[jaylee]

This guy causes surface rust too!



The bird, of course NOT the man in the make-up...

[Grahame at work]

Any stories about how they get cracked?

Is there a pattern which might highlight cracking risk?

It happened on my last Bongo as well - both times it was late winter and I suspect the cold / frosty conditions as on both occasions it was cracked in the morning but not the evening before.

Regrads Grahame

[helen&tony]

Hi
aha...the mystery solved....it will fuse together again when the weather warms up!
Cheers
Helen

[bigdaddycain]

Any stories about how they get cracked?

Is there a pattern which might highlight cracking risk?

Frank

Mine cracked on a 200 yard drive from one end of a car park to the other in zero degrees on smooth flat ground at slow speed! Jagged crack from left to right... or from right to left depending on which way you look at it!

[bigdaddycain]

Hi
aha...the mystery solved....it will fuse together again when the weather warms up!
Cheers
Helen

Alas Helen no it doesn't.

[The_Gordons]

Ours cracked overnight during the really cold spell earlier in the year.

[bigdaddycain]

Hmmm... so the trend is implying that it's extreme cold that is killing some of them? I wonder why only SOME though?

[bigdaddycain]

Now i come to think of it... It was REALLY cold! So much so that i used the very rarely used REAR blowers... I wonder if some of that heat transferred and cracked my lens? But didn't crack the rear screen... Flip that reversing mirror glass must be paper thin eh?

[jaylee]

Hmmm... so the trend is implying that it's extreme cold that is killing some of them? I wonder why only SOME though?

Depends how tight the mirror glass is fitted in the shell... Water/moisture gets in, freezes, expands, then crack!!!
Possibly after a power wash???