Side Mirror Not Adjusting

The side mirror on the passenger's side will not adjust. Every once in a while it will react to a command but other than that it does not respond. What could be going on?

I was just told at the gym today by my mechanic that it's a shifter mechanism (he used a different phrase). He said it's a $700 part that is a pain in the ass to replace and it controls the automated mirror tilt (which mine stopped doing). It also doesn't let me adjust it, I had to set it manually.

He recommended not changing it.

Anyone have any opinions, options or thoughts? Kinda sucks to be conscious of a malfunction.

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When you say will not adjust.. Are you referring to the tilt function when you put it in reverse?

Originally Posted by First_745Li

When you say will not adjust.. Are you referring to the tilt function when you put it in reverse?

Negative, the physical adjustment. I have manually set it because the motor will not move the mirror. He won't tilt on reverse either.

It's apparently a device that mounts near the rear of the motor but I wasn't given much more information.

What's wild is that every once in a while the mirror will adjust to the right slightly then stop amd no further adjustment allowed.

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Could be a contact problem at the toggle switch at the arm rest, try to open the switch and see if it's making contact.

Try taking it apart to see if anything could be binding and check for any loose connections.

are mirrors interchangeable between 330ci and 745i? They look identical to me.

Originally Posted by Busarider

Could be a contact problem at the toggle switch at the arm rest, try to open the switch and see if it's making contact.

It could be a connection problem...but probably not at the toggle switch though. The toggle switch has to be to the driver side for the auto tilt to work (which you said it doesn't) and the toggle switch has to be to the passenger side to adjust it manually (whitch also doesn't work. So...if it is a connection problem it is most likely at the connection on the mirror. The fact that it is intermittently working seems to indicate a bad connection though.

FIXED
I just replaced the battery and the problem is fixed. Everything works as it should. Interesting...

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Battery? That's interesting. Glad you fixed it and even more so for letting us know.


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Originally Posted by duamel

FIXED
I just replaced the battery and the problem is fixed. Everything works as it should. Interesting...

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Wow...seems like a new battery fixes everything on these cars. You must have been having other symtoms right?