XC70 Wing Mirror replacement

[chris810]

I had a bit of a moment today on the narrow roads hear my house and got struck by a Nissan Micra going at warp factor 9, we clattered wing mirrors and my drivers mirror now has shattered casing and glass.

So where is the best place to get another, the volvo price is rather high, around £300.00 plus vat, and I have been given that old chestnut which I seem to get at all parts departments no matter what car Im in " normally its not much of a problem and is a cheap fix but with your model sir ........." Mabye Im buying the wrong cars :-(

Any help would be appreciated

[RowdyYates]

Hey... did you get a replacement at a sensible price in the end ? I’ve just had one of my clattered off 😩

[oragex]

Mirror replacement is rather easy, more time takes to remove the door board https://youtu.be/MoKaF8AIJSk

[Bashy]

It is very simple to change the whole mirror, I bought mine for £60'ish off of eBay, it came from Poland, all i needed to do was to change the colour coded
front cover, although, yours is prob parts thats smashed? Bear in mind that yours will most likely have the powered housing, ie power folding so will cost more.

Hot tip for removing the colour coded cover, prise out near the corner of the cover thats closest to the hinge, not towards the front of the cover, see image below, if you prise from there, it will come off in one foul swoop, anywhere else and you will struggle more and more depending on where you try. Ive not long had to change my complete unit and tried for ages and in vain i might add till i accidentally found that the inside corner was so much easier.....

[R-P]

BTW, I replaced mine with the older mirrors (after applying a number of layers of cheapo spray-paint to get it from red to white) because one mirror-glass disappeared completely as if it evaporated,
I suspect the trailer next to it with a dieselpowered machine on it heated it up so far that the mirror dropped from the plastic backlayer and the owner (doing some work for my neighbours) got a broom and tried to remove all evidence, I remember driving off and seeing my mirror was black so I wiped it clean thinking it was soot, but it was just the plastic holder the glass is glued onto. I may have recovered a microscopic glassshard from the ground but that was all so not quite enough evidence to confront him about it).

Old mirror was 100euro for a set and the glass alone is more expensive and my plastic covers once had flashing lights in them, being an ex-plod car, so had big holes I wanted to get rid off anyway.

I have since found the glass in China for something like 15 and 10 euro iirc (for some reason one side was more expensive) and I have ordered them (they look good, possibly with an even larger angle at the end) but have never fitted them.


I have no clue why the pic is rotated 90 degrees. It was (and is) correctly showing up on my laptop before uploading it.

[eternal optimist]

Originally Posted by RowdyYates

Hey... did you get a replacement at a sensible price in the end ? I’ve just had one of my clattered off 😩

The OP might not remember after 11 years.

[stuart bowes]

I can barely remember what I did to my car last month

I wish the micras I come across did such speeds, round this way they barely move. worse still when you get one in the left lane and a prius in the right you know you're in for the worlds slowest race

[Woob Meister]

Another car destroyed my 07 XC70 mirror casing and indicator. It appears that 07 covers are different from preceding and following years..... is this correct?
I also wondered if there was an interchangeable cover or an entire mirror housing complete that would work? Looking on eBay and the various sites that request every detail before they announce that none are available......drive me nuts.
How do I define accurately the exact cover, indicator or housing that I need please? I would happily buy a used one in whatever colour and spray the colour I need. My indicator bulb still works and my mirror glass is intact. The areas that secure the cover appear broken though I most probably can secure it by super glue or similar. Right now the rain and snow are making it their own and I want to resolve this before it gets worse.
Any help would be appreciated or a guide towards an outlet that I can obtain one at reasonable cost would really cheer me up.