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Hi. I'm Tony, with 1A Auto, here to talk to you today about the advantages of buying a quality, name-brand part for your vehicle, like this tow-mirror upgrade from Trail Ridge Truck Accessories.
Now, at first glance, this part may look nearly identical to a comparable, generic mirror that we brought to show you, but upon further inspection, the difference is clear between the fit and finish, the quality of the parts, and the attention to detail that really makes this mirror from Trail Ridge Truck Accessories a quality part that lasts.
The generic mirror already has a large scratch going across the face of the mirror, and there's pitting around the edges where the reflective material is already starting to fail. This mirror from Trail Ridge uses a very high-quality reflective material, as well as being a defrosting upper and panoramic mirror, where this one only has a defrosting upper mirror.
The Trail Ridge mirror has a much finer, more uniform finish. Another great benefit to these mirrors is the caps are interchangeable, so you have all this selection, on top of being a quality fit and finish on the largest section of your mirror, which is what the majority of people looking at your truck are going to see.
There’s nice clean metal on the hinge for this mirror. The generic part is already rusting out on the hinge. It's brand new. It's never been exposed to the elements. It's rusting out already.
We have the same color sockets on the generic mirror. The ends have waterproofing in them. Somebody did this very quickly. They also have steel contacts on them. On the Trail Ridge Truck mirrors, the sockets are color coded. We know which one goes where. We have a brass contact that's not going to corrode, and it's going to conduct electricity much more smoothly.
The wiring on the Trail Ridge mirror uses the OEM color coding, so all of these colors and pin-outs are going to match up for the factory wiring colors, as well as the pin locations. This generic mirror used whatever color wiring they had around. The wires in the Trail Ridge mirror are also a much heavier gauge. It also comes with an adapter harness for the earlier model trucks, that weren't as feature packed as the newer ones, which while still using the same bolt-on application, will have a different wire harness connector.
The Trail Ridge truck mirror still has that cool tinted look without being so dark that you're not going to be able to see your turn signals and side markers. The motor on the generic mirror is very loose. I can move this very easily by hand. The Trail Ridge truck mirror has nice smooth movement. It actually takes a little bit of force. These are zero-clearance motors, which means they're a lot more accurate. If you're using your mirror switch and you adjust it, when you let off, that's where it's staying.
We have a higher quality steel here. The ends are nice and secure, where you can see these are all bent up and banged up already.
On top of the physical differences that you've seen here in this comparison, these Trail Ridge truck mirrors also come backed with a 100% satisfaction guarantee, as well as the support of a toll-free call center, and online instructional videos and tips to help you make the best out of every upgrade. So if you want a set of these for your work truck or toy hauler, be sure to check them out. Available exclusively from 1AAuto.com.
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Okay. So, what we need to do first is remove our door panel. Grab yourself a nice plastic trim tool. Come right up along here or even up here, and just try to pry this away. You're going to see it's got a couple of little clippy-dos. We're going to move along to this right here. Come down along here with your trim tool, pry up on all this, disconnect all of your wiring. I'm just gonna use the smallest pocket screwdriver. If you press right here, there's a little piton, and then you can pull this down and remove this as well. Let's get this trim piece off of here as well. Now, if you look right up under your handle, you're going to see a bolt that's right there. You can either use a 9/32 or even a 7-millimeter socket, whichever you have.
Next, we're going to get this little door lock bezel out of the way. I'm just going to use my small pocket screwdriver just to kind of get this started. And I'll use my trim tool to pop it right off. That exposes our screw. Get this out of here as well. Now, we're going to remove this little cap right there. You can use anything, small pocket screwdriver, whatever you've got. Pops right off. Underneath there, you're going to see a T20. Remove this screw. There it is. On the far end, we'll go ahead and remove this push clip as well. So, now if you feel along the bottom, you're going to find this bolt right here. Once again, either use a 7-millimeter or 9/32. Get that out of there. Go ahead and grab onto your door panel, lift it straight up, and draw it away from your vehicle. Just use your small pocket screwdriver, come right underneath this area right there, and you should be able to draw the wire out. There we go. Let's go ahead and get this right out of here. That exposes our three mounting nuts. Before we go ahead and remove those though, you need to follow this wiring down and then, of course, remove that as well.
Remove this. Remove it off of there, and off of there. Okay. Let's remove all three of these. Just remember that there isn't going to be much holding the mirror in. So, usually, I'll just kind of take out two and I'll loosen one, go around the other side, hold onto it, and remove the last. There it is. Okay. Now, you're going to see right here where the wires are, there's like some little clippies. You just kind of push those and then the mirror should want to fall right out of there. There we are. We're going to go ahead and put the wiring through the door here. Push that all the way down through. Now, I'm going to carefully put my studs through. I'm being careful not to scratch any of my paint, of course. And then I'll start on one of my nuts. All right. Now that that's started, I'll come around and I'll put on the other two and snug them right up. Awesome.
All this wiring right here, you want to make sure that you tape this up onto there. If you need to remove these, you can just use a little forkey [SP] tool, pop them out, tape it up, and then make sure it's secured and plug it in. All right. So let's get this in here real quick. This is just going to kind of help with noise and whatnot. Let's get the vapor barrier back on here. The next thing I always like to do is to make sure I test what I've done before I go ahead and put the door panel on. Let's go ahead and reconnect all this stuff. Get my black, my blue. This one right here. Make sure it locks in. This one. Perfect. We'll put the key in the on position. Let's go ahead and test that mirror real quick. Side to side, up and down, that's perfect. Left directional, all right. Get this back off of here. Let's get this light reconnected. Slides right in. Coming up here, we want to make sure we grab all this wiring, pull it right through like this. Now, we've got our handle, it's going to come right through this hole.
Now, as we push in the panel, you're going to see you have hooky-dos all coming down along here. You have one here, there, there, and then a couple along the bottom. All those need to fit into their slots that are on the door. Once you have them so they're starting in there, we'll slide them all down. Get our screws here, get this one right here. Nice and short right there. The long one, goes right underneath this handle. Tight. Get this one, put in right back in there. Add our little cover, push that right on there. Get our push clip. Now it's time to put back on our lock. Make sure you've got the red area facing towards the rear of the vehicle. If you were to look at the backside, you're going to see there's a hooky-do here and then there's a couple of little ones right there. This forward end needs to go in first, and then you roll the backside in. There it is. Make sure it's unlocked, of course. Now it's time to get this back on there. If you were to look at this, you're going to see there's a little hooky-do. That needs to slide in there. So, we'll just go right over the handle, put in that forward side first with the hooky-do, and then go ahead and clip this in. Perfect. Put this back on there. Got another hooky-do, goes down, and then, of course, the pitons push right in.
Let's get this back reconnected now. If you look at the backside, you can see, of course, the colors. Black, we're going to skip one and go blue. We'll take that green. Get the big one, slide it right in. Make sure it's locked in. Grab this, put it on. Now, when you put this in, there should be like a little hooky-do here that's going to go under there. And then there should be a little clip that's going to force down in there. Both of ours are broken. So, you're just going to have to imagine I'm going in from the front, sliding it down, making sure my wiring's where it needs to be. There we are. Just retest this real quick. It opens. I'm going to lock it, unlock it. Perfect.
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In this video we'll be replacing a side view mirror on this 2004 GMC Sierra, basically the same as '99 to '06 Silverado, Sierra, and the SUV's, Tahoe, Yukons, Escalades.
Replacing the mirror is actually pretty easy. It's only three bolts holding it on and then unplugging the connector, but you do have to remove the door handle, I'm sorry, the door panel. We're going to show you that pretty quick in this video, too. The tools you'll need are a flat blade screwdriver, a pair of needle nose pliers, a 7mm socket and driver, a number two Torx driver and a 10mm socket and driver.
We're going to double-time the door panel removal. To start out, you pry the ferrule around the door lock and the door lock button comes off. Then the mirror panel, which you would think that this is the only thing you've got to replace or take off, but that's not the case. It just has two clips that you use a screwdriver wrapped in a cloth and then the screwdriver to get the door handle trim plate off. Then there's a small plastic push pin. Use a screwdriver to start it and then some needle nose pliers. Then there's a little trim piece that you can just pull off with your finger. A number two Torx screw, take that screw out. You'll see me move quick here, like lightning. Then there's two more bolts, 7mm. One right there, next to the lock. Pull that out, lightning hands again, and then one up underneath the door pull, again 7mm, and again, lightning quickness. Once those bolts are out, the door panel just pulls up and out.
Then you'll need to unplug the courtesy light. Right here, actually, is where your mirror connects in. That one and that one is actually the mirror connection. We will need to go all the way with this, though, because you'll have to pull off your plastic water shield. Here's another connector, it's got a little tab and then this little lever pivots in order for that connector to come off. A little bit different. You can see me struggle with it there. Then the last connector, and then your speaker, provided you have the up level stereo or whatever. Take the speaker off and then you'll want to, after that, remove your door handle, which is pretty simple too. There's a little blue clip on there that holds that rod in place. Use a screwdriver to start it and then your finger to just reach in there, pull the rod out, 10mm bolt, unscrew that, slide the handle forward and it comes off.
Now you'll want to pull your water shield out. This is basically just to get the harness for the mirror off. I'm going to take it all the way off here, but you can just pull it down enough to get the harness free for your mirror. I'll show you, as far as replacing the mirror; it is three bolts, and unplugging the mirror. There's your mirror mounting. There are the three bolts. They are, I believe, 7mm, possibly 8mm. You would remove those three nuts and then you've got to remove the clips on this harness, which goes down into your door. That's why you have to take the door panel off, because that harness goes all the way down into your door. Once you've done that, you can replace the mirror, put the door panel back together and you're good to go. I hope this helps you out.
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