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After posting up a topic inquiring how to do this and searching through previous posts/topics, I was left feeling exasperated at the lack of accurate advice. Basically, I was given the run around by people who clearly didn't know what they were talking about, and ultimately ended up damaging the plastic below the caps!
Therefore, I'm posting this topic to help those in the future that intend carrying out this job.
This is the definitive guide to removing the wing mirrorcaps.
Firstly, using the electric mirror pad, angle the mirror as far down and as far into the car as possible. Thus leaving a wide gap the the top of the wing mirror, where you will be able to see two clips behind the actual mirror. You need to use something like a pair of scissors to pinch the top and bottom sides of the clips and push them away through the internal housing of the wing mirror. Then, again with the electric mirror pad, angle the mirror as far up and as far into the car as possible. You should now be able to see the bottomoutside edge clip. Again, pinch the clip to release. Hopefully, you should now be able to free the cover from the wing mirror.
I'm not going to lie to you, it's one **** of a fiddle. One of my caps popped right out and the other had to be sweet-talked. Under no circumstances try to prise the mirror off with your nails as I was poorly advised on this forum!! I was even told to be "more forceful" and "squirt surgical spirit into the gaps to destroy the sticky tape". There was no sticky tape.
Edited by: Juke of Hamilton

This is the definitive guide to removing the wing mirrorcaps.
Firstly, using the electric mirror pad, angle the mirror as far down and as far into the car as possible. Thus leaving a wide gap the the top of the wing mirror, where you will be able to see two clips behind the actual mirror. You need to use something like a pair of scissors to pinch the top and bottom sides of the clips and push them away through the internal housing of the wing mirror. Then, again with the electric mirror pad, angle the mirror as far up and as far into the car as possible. You should now be able to see the bottomoutside edge clip. Again, pinch the clip to release. Hopefully, you should now be able to free the cover from the wing mirror.
I'm not going to lie to you, it's one **** of a fiddle. One of my caps popped right out and the other had to be sweet-talked. Under no circumstances try to prise the mirror off with your nails as I was poorly advised on this forum!! I was even told to be "more forceful" and "squirt surgical spirit into the gaps to destroy the sticky tape". There was no sticky tape.
