Rear View Mirror is impossible to attach. Help.
 

I had a new windshield put in, and the mirror came back all wobbly, and eventually fell off entirely.

I have honestly tried to put it back on, via loosening the screw and sliding it in. But I can't ever get it to be rock solid. It's like it's always mounted slightly incorrectly.

Are there any tricks to getting this TERRIBLE design to function again?

-Towels

I know exactly what you are talking about. Same thing happened to me. So I called them up, told them about it. The specialist was confused too. Took him about 30 mins to figure it out. But he didnt tell me what he did so I cant help you. Sorry haha

look through the FSM. i had the dumbshit who did my windshield try and ghetto rig my mirror. so i cussed him out and did it myself. i know what youre talking about in terms of it being wobbley. they mounted the spring ring wrong. take it off and apart and follow the fsm, and you'll get it back on perfectly again.

It's not too difficult to figure out if you dismount it and look at the pieces. I'd agree that it sounds like they just installed it incorrectly.

there is a piece behind the mount that needs to be reversed, they installed the metal clip piece backwards, once you reverse it you should find that it tightens up tight. Easy mistake as it looks to be in the right way but it actually is not. Take it off, find the removable clip , reverse it and put it back on for tightening.

I had the same thing happen after I had my windshield tinted. I must have played around with it for an hour before giving up.

Check this out

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...0&#entry2180877

What was tripping me up the whole time was that you need to make sure the little clip goes under the spring. If not it will stay on....kinda but fall off eventually. Once I did that it went and stayed on perfectly.

This is the thread that REALLY helped me to see it better!

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...0&#entry4014580

Bumping an old topic here...
I've had the same issue with mine, and I've been living with it for a few months. I tried taking it apart and re-installing a few times, to no avail. Ive double and triple checked the parts, and backed them up against the pictures here, and everything appears correct, but it STILL wobbles. It's definitely tighter than it was, but it isn't rock solid like it was from the factory. Objects still appear blurry.

So....

Has anyone had any more luck than me? Please don't say "look at the FSM" because I don't have one. It's only 3 parts, and I'm 99.99999% sure they are in the correct order. Is there a trick to sliding the whole assembly into the metal clip thing? (the part that us glued to the windshield). I slid it up from the bottom. The buttons line up and everything, but it still wobbles. It isn't loose, per se, but it is like a "spring-loaded" wobble. Very annoying...

Just messed with it a little more...same crap, but I have a theory...

Since by "tightening" the screw from the bottom, its actually causing it to back away from the windshield, by pushing harder to keep the screwdriver engaged, you create so much drag on the screw that you can't tighten it any farther. I think that if it were a flathead, or a hex head, you would be able to tighten it all the way down. So, even though it feels tight (at least in my case), and the screwdriver keeps jumping the slots, I think that problem is that its actually just loose.

EDIT:

I think my theory was correct, at least in my case. I found some philips drill drivers, and got the one the engaged the screw the best. Went back to the car, got it started by hand, then put the drill to it. The bit engaged the screw much better than any of the hand drivers I had, and the drill managed to get it much tighter than ever before. Solid as a rock now.

I've got my rearview mirror assembly figured out from all of the helpful pics in this post:

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/211...-installation/

The one thing I want to confirm is how the assembly now aligns with the metal "mounting lug" that is attached to the windshield still. I think that my "toothed washer" needs to slide into that piece (the toothed washer needs to have some of that metal lug between it and the spring).
If I tighten my screw down too far before trying this, I can't get it to line up so I am assuming that I need to leave it a little bit loose to get that to line up properly and then tighten up the screw from the front of the mirror (the side where righty-tighty applies).

Does that sound about right?

P.S. I am already aware that the tip or high part of the "hook plate" has to be on top of the "toothed washer".