It's a good thing I generally live by two words "s**t happens". I'm typically not so pissed if *I* do something stupid, now if somebody else did it I'd be livid.
Good news. I fixed the mirror.
Bad news. Im not sure it's going to last so Ill order up a new one, at least knowing that the mirror is bad now.
More bad news. I'll admit it, I was super careful reinstalling it following all the advice I could find and read in a service manual snippet... STILL...
IT LIVES - on life support
So I needed a new multimeter and I got it from UPS this morning. So back to Step 1: CHECK VOLTAGES
I took apart the mirror and started tracing it out. Oh whats this? This resistor goes from 11.83v to a couple hundred milivolts? NO! BAD RESISTOR! You don't do that...
So I pulled the fuses anyways to check and they're fine. Fuse 21 and Fuse 2 are good still.
I realized at least one of the lines coming out is not going to have any voltage after I wrote this last night. It's for the side mirror.
Anyways, since the fuses are fine and it appears the voltages to...
So my Rear View Mirror Map lights and Auto Dimming are not working. The green power light for the auto-dimming doesn't turn on. The vanity, glove box and under hood lamp work, and oddly enough the amber light works so It's not Fuse 2. So do the side view mirrors. The reverse lights work so I...
Wait a second. Was there something going on this weekend that I missed? Or not invited to :(
Was just thinking to my self "Should spin over to Manny's shop soon to see what it'll cost to patch a scuff on my fender. Lets whats up on the forums." and see that something was going on?
Some dbag...
It's a plexiglass panel that goes behind the seats to cut down on the wind blowing around when the roof is down. A friend of mine has a cheapo net one on his Z4 and it makes a pretty big difference.
Unlighted. It's all wrapped up in the box still. The bastard is installed using 3M VHB tape, the same stuff they use to assemble AIRPLANES keep the siding on SKY SCRAPERS.
Erm... I can't decide if I want to mount my WindRestrictor or get rid of it... It's not as temporary as the C6 one so as soon as I got it I got cold feet lol :ack:
I got it last year when they came out and took it out just long enough to see what it would sort of look like installed.