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Old Aug 4, 2003 | 02:54 AM
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Angry Mirror tilting down feature...gone *****!!

well, as some of you know that my sister's car has gone through a lot of ***** last couple months. Just the other day I found out the *****ty tilting mirror feature doesn't work any more. On top of that, the steering column squeak like hell at low speed. I mean, damn, the car's about to be 4 years old. Start showing it's age or what...lol
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Old Aug 4, 2003 | 03:01 AM
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Get it to the dealer qucik beofre the warranty runs out! My CLK430 takes the cake for squeeks. It's now a game to guess where the next one will be.
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Old Aug 4, 2003 | 11:42 AM
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Re: Mirror tilting down feature...gone *****!!

Originally posted by FrankW
well, as some of you know that my sister's car has gone through a lot of ***** last couple months. Just the other day I found out the *****ty tilting mirror feature doesn't work any more. On top of that, the steering column squeak like hell at low speed. I mean, damn, the car's about to be 4 years old. Start showing it's age or what...lol
the mirror thing should 'hopefully' just be a software issue... mine got screwed up after my A service... 5 min with laptop fixed that right back up
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Old Aug 4, 2003 | 03:15 PM
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well, we got the 7 year extended warranty when purchase, so that's not a problem.

hopefully the mirror is just a software glich. One thing tho, it does move slightly outward, but not down when in reverse. Makes me wonder if it's really just a glich, but when I do it manually it still goes down.
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Old Aug 4, 2003 | 03:24 PM
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I can't stand this feature anyway. I hate it when I leave the mirror adjustment switch on the right side and the damn thing goes down when in reverse.
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Old Aug 4, 2003 | 03:38 PM
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Great wisdom in purchasing the extended warranty!!!!

and the tilting mirror is a love hate thing for me.... usually hate...
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 07:54 PM
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what exactly is the problem with your right side mirror. my 99 has the problem. the mirror goes down with no problems but does not go back up until i flip the switch back to the driver side mirror.... of course this happened right after the original warranty ended. ....


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what exactly is the problem with your right side mirror. my 99 has the problem. the mirror goes down with no problems but does not go back up until i flip the switch back to the driver side mirror.... of course this happened right after the original warranty ended. ....


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it just doesn't move down in the reverse mode. Instead, it moves to the right a bit like something is broken. If I manually adjust the mirror to look down it still works, so can't be something's broken in there.
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then id say you are in for trip back to the stealership.... at least the motors still function and you dont need to have those replaced....

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