After a few days of letting them sit in the box we finally got around to fitting them to Molly.
Firstly the new short arm mirrors were cleaned. Already in barely a month the left side one has a few scrapes on the edge from bushes and trees!
Fistly we did the driver's side as it has the hole for the temperature gauge. The instructions are to lubricate the edges of the cover's beading with washing up liquid to ease them into place. This I did and used quite a bit. Then we removed the sticky sided tape covering and pressed it into place. It took quite a lot of force to get the cover to fit anywhere near the right place. It doesn't fit flush with the edge of the mirror as it is expected/supposed to.
We pressed and pushed and this is as far as it would go!
We repeated the same procedure with the left/passenger side. About the same level of force was used with the same result....
I just hope that leaving the tape to "cure" is enough to ensure that they don't fall off when they brush up against a bush or we hit one of the countries millions of potholes!
Tomorrow we have a short drive out locally and hopefully there will be no problems!
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