Mirror Shimmy/Wind Noise

From: Ned Vogler (NVOGLER@rghosp.chime.org)
Date: Tue Feb 13 1996 - 17:45:00 EST


>From: Pan_Chan.IACNET
>drove away, I noticed how both side view mirrors now "quivered" - not the
arm
>nor the chrome mirror housing, but just the actual mirror itself,
especially
>the driver side. It is very annoying. It's worst at highway speeds when it

>quivers so much that everything's blurry. Either the body shop messed up
the
>mirrors by hand-forcing them and not using the mirror-motor, or the
deflector
>I put on for the first time creates some kind of weird turbulence that
somehow
>disturbs the mirrors.

>Anyone else ever have problems w/their motorized mirrors?

Yes, I am having this exact same problem, and I don't remember noticing it
before I put the deflector on. Actually, it seems to happen only at highway
speeds, around town, everything is OK.. On mine as well, it seems to be
much worse on the driver's side, and everything is quite blurry... I did
also notice, previous to the mirror shimmy, that if an unusually large gust
of wind blew by the truck, say because of a semi passing in the other
direction, or a large natural crosswind, that the mirror housing would
actually "howl" or "whistle"... Almost scared me the first few times it
happened... I'm wondering if these are just normal problems with the power
mirrors (they're quite a bit larger than the standard remote manual
mirrors).. Anyone else??

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