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Subject:Re: of mice and mirrors
From:Ben T
Date:Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:33:42 -0800

Is it an East Coast/West Coast thing? My mirrors all seem to move smoothly. Or maybe it's because I adjust them often. I use them to look at curbs when I'm parking.;-)

BenT

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On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> At 01:04 PM 2/7/2013, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>> Hmmm......... .  I have motorized mirrors on other vehicles, and
>> those have always been responsive and smooth in operation.  Thanks
>> for letting me know.  I won't try to fix them then.  There's an old
>> adage about that.  mcneely
> 
> They drag in the mounts, so in that sense they're disconcertingly
> un-smooth, and the vertical and horizontal interact a bit because of
> it.  However if the motors are intermittent that's entirely
> different.  If that's the case, spraying some contact cleaner into
> the switch and exercising it a bit is probably your first step of choice.
> 
> Yours,
> David