Hey,
New to this forum. I would like to see if I could get some help with replacing a side view mirror on my wife's Lexus NX 200t. I am including pictures of the damage that happened to the mirror while backing out of the garage... oof. It seems like a pretty straightforward fix... if her mirror wasn't: auto-dimming and blindspot equipped.
I found the the full replacement on lexuspartsnow.com but it is a $500 replacement. All of the mechanics and glass itself are fine. Just a little mangled mess on the edge. Anyone know of a way or individual part that I could purchase to fix, or maybe i could buy the most basic housing unit and replace the guts of the new housing with my current ones.
Thanks!

 

you'd need that whole frame... pricey. if i were you and savvy and interested in saving dough, i'd disassemble everything, clean it up and polish it and glue that black plastic piece back together. can get that looking 95-97% new for $5 and 30 min of your time.

if you need it 100% perfect, such as a lease return situation, then buy the mirror used on ebay (doesn't matter what options it has) and just swap over the parts you need.

you'll need to pull the interior door panel off then its 3 screws holding the mirror to the door shell. and a wiring harness. pretty simple

then you pull the glass of the mirror (should pop off using a screwdriver) then there's screws holding the black frame and mirror outer shell then everything falls to pieces like a puzzle. install is reverse.

 

Gents,

Sorry for posting to an old thread but my wife just did a similar "oops" to her baby 2017 NX200t on the passenger side, and I thought it better to continue this thread along.

Like here, only the frame is damaged (a bit more severely than @Conthodar with some pieces cracked off), but all of it still functions. There's no scratches on the painted cover, and to me it seems like a frame replacement will get it back to where it was. My question is it possible to do this without removing the mirror from the car door? Are there any instructions on how to dismantle the mirror? Video?

Thanks for the assist.

Regards,

Jim

 

You would be better off with purchasing a second hand or aftermarket new mirror frame on eBay, then do the replacing of the part yourself. This way you may end up with under $200-ish spend...

New - https://www.ebay.ca/itm/144991169202...3ABFBMpqHM9Yxi

New - https://www.ebay.ca/itm/155457762452...3ABFBMpqHM9Yxi

 

Yes. Go here

 

Thanks for the reply and YouTube link.

The only issue I see from this video is he describes cutting off a plastic bit as he couldn't get to a "hidden" screw to remove the frame. (He didn't show that process) He said that screw keep the frame rigid in the wind but I don't know for sure if he cuts the same bit off the new frame and just lets it wobble in the wind.

If that's the case, it seems taking off the door panel and removing the mirror for disassembly is the only way to do this right.

I just ordered the Frame off eBay and it'll be at my mail drop before the end of the month. (It's coming from China.)

Thanks again for the post.

 

I think you are right. That screw can be removed only if you remove the mirror base. But removing the mirror is not that complicated, there are lots of videos out there for that.
Basically, is removing the inside panel, disconnecting all the plugs, disconnecting the lock cables and then panel comes off. Of course, you need the proper tools for that....

 

My boys are asking what I want for Father's day so I just asked for a to remove parts of the door panel. I've got to check if I've got a 10mm magnetic socket to the mirror mounts.

 

I had to go and buy a small set of deep metric sockets for this task. I found a decent YouTube Video to follow, but summer got in the way and I somewhat forgot about it until September. I went looking for the video as I save it in my favorites, as it was exactly what I needed, but unfortunately the maker of the video had deleted his account and the video was gone. So I've been procrastinating ever since.

Today I found this one which I think was the same video on his "new" channel (Started June 16, 2023). Now I should just get on with it.

 

Hi Gents,

I thought I should tidy up this thread as I finally got around to repairing the passenger mirror on my wife's 2017 NX-200t. It took me much longer to complete than the YouTube Videos that I reviewed (numerous times) suggest, as this is my wife's car and I wanted my repair to be successful first try. (So no negative comments, like "we should have taken it to the dealer" were heard.)

I did not have a magnetic deep socket and I was worried that would cause me to drop one of the mounting nuts down into the door cavity, but I was cautious and used a ratchet and not an electric driver to mitigate that issue. I backed of the first nut a few turns and then was able to easily spin back the nut with just the socket and extension (like a nut driver). The nuts are attached to the washers, so as it got to the end of the stud's threads while taking it off, I was able to put a couple fingers behind it to keep it pressed against the socket and pull it away from the stud. This worked extremely well and I shouldn't have fretted over not having a magnetic deep socket.

By the way, I was able to leave the door card still connected by the latch cables and just swing it down out of the way resting on a piece of carpet on the garage floor and leaning against the door while I did the re & re on the mirror. There was one screw tab that I had to cut and then hot glue together when assembling it with the new mirror frame as it was impossible to remove the old frame from the assembly unless I was going to dismantle the whole mirror assembly completely, which I didn't see a method to do so without specialized tools. I was also a bit under the gun time wise as my misses advised she wanted to drive her Lexus, and not my Mazda to work the following day. Cutting and Hot Gluing the tab worked just fine.

My only significant issue was the Frame assembly I got off eBay wasn't perfect. There was one screw mounting hole that wasn't drilled out, but it wasn't a big deal to correct. The other issue is there was a small imperfection along one of the lines where the frame meets the body colored back cover. It wandered off parallel about a 1/16 of an inch. Noticeable to me when assembling, but unless you knew it was there most folks won't see it. My other concern was the tape I'd used to keep the old assembly together while I got the part and the repair done, had left a slight residue where it contacted the body colored back cover. I tried various removal agents with limited success. I'm just going to let it wear off over the winter, see what's left come spring.

All in all, I'm happy with the repair, even with the slight defects in the eBay Frame. Spending $40 instead of over $1,000 at the local Lexus dealer here in Canada.

 

I do not know if you tried this one "Goo gone for glue and tape". https://www.walmart.com/ip/Goo-Gone-...RoC-S4QAvD_BwE

 

Exactly!

But no joy!

 

Well folks, you won't believe it but my Misses took out the same mirror again; again while backing out of our garage in November. Seems like the painted cover just popped off and survived yet again, but the Frame is toast. I went back to the same vendor on eBay to order another Frame but they don't have anything listed at all. So I picked another seller who had good feedback and order it from them, and to my surprise the prices seem to have dropped by about $5 US. I'm assuming all of the sellers are getting the same part from the same manufacturer.

At time of order, November 21, 2024, they said it would take anywhere from 20 days to 55 days to get from China. They provided tracking, and I was pleased to see it was "Handed over to Airlines" on Nov 28th. So I was expecting it by about Dec 11th which was the 20 day mark. Of course that didn't happen. Looking at the Tracking info later, it says it was handed over to China Post, so I'm assuming it's using the Canada Post system at my end. Of course Canada Post when on Strike just before I ordered the Frame. The strike began on November 15, 2024 and was suspended by Government Order on December 17th. I know there was an announcement that some countries were not shipping anything destined to use Canada Post for shipments going to Canada. I expect that's why I haven't seen the Frame. Of course I'm only guessing here as there's been no communication from the seller on this.

Luckily I was able to cobble the broken mirror together enough to make it functional, but not pretty. Now with the Canada Post strike in the rear view mirror (pun intended) perhaps the tracking will get updated soon.

Oh what Fun!

 

Hi Folks. I know I should have done this second Frame swap months ago when the Frame finally got delivered due to the Canada Postal issues (which are still on going!). Once it arrived I looked at the new Frame in it's plastic bag and wondered how it made it here in one piece considering it was packed only in a bubble wrap envelope. I then put it aside and forgot about it until my wife reminded me that I didn't install it last weekend.

So Saturday I re-watched the videos (above) again, but after setting up to do it all over for the second time, I changed my process and slowly started to dismantle the Mirror still on the car =>mostly like the video in Post #5 above. I tried to use the method to remove the mirror glass as described in Victor's

2016-2022 Lexus RX350 RX450h 2015-2021 NX200t NX300 300h Door Mirror Glass Replacement Instructions

But I couldn't figure out where the Flat Screwdriver was supposed to go to pop off the 4 clips until after I carefully (?) pulled the mirror off as in the other video. Once I got the old frame removed - it looked like the "Hot Gluing of the Tab" I used before had failed - I again contemplated removing the door card as in Victor's video (see Post #9 above) but remembered to get to the screw that holds the Tab would require the whole mirror assembly to be dismantled. I remembered last time, when I did pull the whole assembly, I decided dismantling the whole mirror wasn't for me, and that's why i tried the Hot Glue approach instead.

So I tried a different approach to get the screw out for that tab, that I used once in a blue moon. As you can't get a Phillips screw driver to access the screw correctly enough, I decided to try to use pliers to slowly (and I mean very slowly) rotate the screw out to remove the remnants of the original tab, and screw the new tab down, once I got the new Frame installed. I tried many different pliers but did it with the smallest needle nose ones I had.


Lexus NX-200t Passenger Mirror Frame Screw Removal
The photo above is of the screw going back in. The pliers, once clamped down, would only move the screw a small amount before you had to re-grip and do it again. But I got it done.


Lexus NX-200t Passenger Mirror Frame Screw Tight
The rest of the assembly and testing were routine. And I thought I was done. But I ended up posting this this morning on Victor's video on YouTube:

Thanks for the video Victor. My wife hit the frame of the garage door with her passenger side mirror of her 2017 NX 200t when slowly backing out and cracked the mirror's plastic frame. I was able to replace the frame and got it all back together thanks to your videos. After testing I thought I was done, but when I start the car the mirror moves by itself until it reaches the limit of it's travel and then starts "ratcheting" until I manually push it off the limit. Then it behaves normally until next time. Do you you what I can do to resolve this? Thanks in advance.

And to my surprise he responded within the Hour!

"Hi, does this behaviour occur right after starting the vehicle or right after putting it in reverse? If right after starting, I would suspect the actuator motor (round white thing the glass is attached to) may need to be replaced. If only happens after putting the car in reverse, it may just need to be initialized by adjusting the mirror angle with the control buttons to where you want it to be while the car is in reverse."

Of course my wife is at work so I can't try anything, but I'll see if I can sort it out tonight.

Wish me luck.

 

My 2017 nx has a similar issue with my driver side mirror. The housing is kinda broken and the mirror becomes droopy and doesn't stay in place. I will have to replace the whole unit. It has both BSM and auto dimming. I see lots of replacements mirrors with one or the other but not both. I also see these units with different amount of pins. So I wanted to ask if you guys know which units to get for a direct replacement. And how many pins would i need?