LasVegasMike

When I bought my car a few weeks ago the only damage to the body was a cracked mirror housing:



So I ordered a color matched replacement from parts.com at a cost of $103:



Installation is pretty straight forward. You move the mirror all the way to its lowest position as if you were trying to see the ground in the mirror. Once moved you stick your fingers behind the mirror and gently pull. It snaps out pretty easy. There is a white plug and two wires to disconnect:



After you gently place this very expensive piece of glass somewhere safe, remove the torx screw in the lower left corner. There are two clips that hold the housing in place so you lift up in it to remove it:



The new part slides back down and you just have to make sure the plug for the signal light lines up:



Reassembly is the reverse order. When go to snap the mirror back in to place make sure the two small wires will not get caught. When you are all done it should look like new:



It took me about 10 minutes to complete. Just be very careful with the mirror glass.

2nice4me

Thanks for the step by step. I am buying an after market blind spot system and this will come handy when i need to fish the wires through the mirror into the interior

usamuscle

Nice write up

BenzV12

Excellent write up, thanks for sharing

blazium

Thanks for the write up

PeterUbers

nice work .. what would that have cost you at the stealership? $300, $400?

LasVegasMike

Retail on the part was around $200, so figure that plus an hour of labor, somewhere in the $300-$500 range would be about right.

C230Brit

Mike - Thanks for the write up and decent pictures too - I'm sure this post will become useful for many.

Admins: Can we make it into a DIY / Sticky? At least prefix the subject line with DIY so that we can search for all DIY's.

thanks,

Richard

2nice4me

I am going to install an aftermarket blind spot system and have most things figured out (I think).

Two things I need some help with, I need power and I see this thing that appears to be a relay (red square) and it has a plus and minus on it, anybody know if it is safe to unplug and can it be used for power or is there better source ( if so what color wire).


Also I will need to feed a cable from the mirror into the door and I have removed the three screws that hold the mirror housing in place but it isn't coming off yet, it's loose but can't see to get it off?

2nice4me

I am also changing the mirrors to European version and will be connecting the blind spot led in the mirror to the after market system.

The led has three wires attached, I tried to use a 9v battery to determine which wires are needed to light up but could not get the led to light up. Any idea what that could be?

The wire colors are black with red wire, blue wire and grey wire.

JoelE55

Nicely done. Good thing you break the mirror, driver side mirror are pricey. It's cost between $600-$750.00

GregTR

The wiring diagram does not specify colors for that mirror lead but the pin layout is:
Pin 1 - yellow LED +
Pin 2 - red LED +
Pin 3 - ground

Good luck! BTW what is the aftermarket system you're installing?

GregTR

The auto dimming mirror plate is $350+. Non dimming is less than $50.

2nice4me

I purchased both left and right mirror for $200, I may not be able to get the eom less to work but can replace it with a regular led

2nice4me

It's called bliss blind spot, any idea about that. Red relay whether it can be used to tap power?

Mbenz260e

Nice work! We had to replace the cover on an 2009 ML we had. One dealer quoted $700, the other $250, so I just went with the $250, unfortunately our ML had the odd rectangular mirrors only around 1-2yrs so was hard to find the part online. $103 is a steal....

2nice4me

Thx Greg, Grey is negative, blue is yellow led, brown black is red led.

Nuru

Thanx for the clear and concise writeup!

feltball

This instruction works for 2010 ML 350 mirror as well. I was searching for removal instruction for a long time and finally tumble onto this and want to let others know in case they are looking for ML 350 mirror removal instruction as well.

dbldpr

very good instructions and pictures. If will be helpful to a lot of people.

screw991le

Very nice write up.