On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, George Becker wrote:

> The simple fix for me was to open the windwing and turn the handle a few
> turns clockwise to tighten...took me years of shimming to figure it out.

Ah...those "Ah hah!  So *that's* how it works!" moments. ;)

When I bought my van it had floppy rear view mirrors that the previous
owner had tried to fix with tape wrapped around the joints.  Of course,
this only worked (sort of) until the first rain storm I drove through.
Took the mirrors off, and lo and behold, there was a nut on the bottom to
adjust the tension!

They never seemed to adjust to quite the right angles, though...until one
day I was looking at a picture of someone else's vanagon, and realized the
long dimension of their mirrors was vertical, not horizontal like
mine...that's when I realized my mirrors had been swapped left for right.
In a flash it came to me...  No wonder they didn't work!  No wonder the
wing windows hit them! Swapped them to the correct sides, and a couple of
tablespoons of water drained out of each one, too, through the hole that
was now on the bottom where it was supposed to be.

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