Bora - AntiDazzle Rearview Mirror Issue

[Andy-4Motion]

Hi there,

Another new person here, I bought a 2002 VW Bora 4 Motion Sport in September 2006, and it's been fantastic, soo much fun driving this car, and its RED .

Anyhow there has been a cpl of issues, all minor and fixed, except this fandangled rear vision mirror. Its got this Anti-Dazzle rear view mirror, and it did have a small blotch of blurry section in it, which got alot bigger and used to move around the mirror to different sides. It expanded to about 80% of the mirror when I left the car in the sun. Its pretty damn hard to see anything with the blurry section and it actually makes headlights worse at night.

Called the dealer they said replace it (they recon that its has something to do with the photoelectrics not working), and wanted $550 for a new one. To me it looks like it needs like some sort of liquid top up under the surface. Has anyone else come across this issue?

While the anti-dazzle feature is pretty cool, im considering just replacing the mirror with one from a Golf, I checked out one in the carpark, it looks like it would click in pretty damn easy, plus probably be a hell of alot cheaper then some fancy photoelectric thing, I mean all I want to do is see who is behind me.

Cheers,

Andrew

[gtimk5]

Hi Andy, Welcome to the forum mate, good to have you here. I hope you enjoy it and get some good info from it. We are all here to help each other.
Havent heard of that mirror problem. Weird one.
I suggest fitting a secondhand mk 4 golf one.
Cheers, Andrew

[Andy-4Motion]

Thanks for the welcome!

I might take a pic of the issue and post it up later, I believe your suggestion is probably the way to go though!

Andrew

[sim2002]

hi welcome!

im fairly new here myself - also have 2002 V6 Bora!

if one thing ive learnt about these cars is shop around DO NO go directly to VW service! the price of parts and labour is theft!

[Andy-4Motion]

Hey sim,

Yeah I know what ya mean, the price is murder!

What do you think of the centre armrest thing in the Bora? that folds up and down, personally it ****s me off, both up and down.

Andrew

[sim2002]

Hey sim,

Yeah I know what ya mean, the price is murder!

What do you think of the centre armrest thing in the Bora? that folds up and down, personally it ****s me off, both up and down.

Andrew

ha! too true! when driving a manual car and that armrest is sitting in way it is a pain - so I leave it up 99% of the time!

i would like to find out some more info. on specs. of the car (technical info.) have you found any info. around for the bora v6?

[Andy-4Motion]

I've found a little bit of info.

Here's some technical details from redbook http://www.redbookasiapacific.com/au...p?key=VOLK02DM

And here is review done on a Bora V6 4Motion

http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0...-26236,00.html

Which model do you have the Sports or non Sports varient?

Can anyone explain to me what a VR6 is by any chance, little confused on what it is.

Cheers,
Andrew

[sim2002]

I've found a little bit of info.

Here's some technical details from redbook http://www.redbookasiapacific.com/au...p?key=VOLK02DM

And here is review done on a Bora V6 4Motion

http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0...-26236,00.html

Which model do you have the Sports or non Sports varient?

Can anyone explain to me what a VR6 is by any chance, little confused on what it is.

Cheers,
Andrew

hey andy,

thanks for those sites - i have non-sport varient although seems only mesh grill, rear boot spoiler and 17inch wheels are the diffrerence??

check out this website just found most info on V6 ive found so far:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=804369

theres a part about V6 and VR6 but seems not many people agree on what is correct

[syncro]

VR6 is a narrow angle vee and only has one head. V6 has two.

[sim2002]

thanks syncro