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About TRQ:
TRQ is a trusted brand dedicated to making every repair a success story by combining premium parts with easy installation. Each TRQ part is engineered by a team of automotive experts to meet or exceed OEM standards, delivering enhanced performance and maximum longevity. With rigorous in-house testing, the brand ensures superior fit and function across every product line. TRQ also provides customers with best-in-class, step-by-step installation videos—so you can complete repairs with confidence, whether you're a first-time DIYer or an industry professional.
Product Features
TRQ side mirrors and mirror components are designed to match the function, fixture, and performance of the original version for easy installation. TRQ mirrors are DOT certified, comply with all federal safety standards, and are independently lab tested to ensure our products comply with all government regulations. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
Exact fit - To obtain proper fit and function confirm your vehicle has the exact mirror options listed.
Paint To Match Note:
"Paint-to-match finish" refers to a smooth, paintable surface. This item is not painted. Paint offers better coverage and adhesion, but it is not necessary for installation.
Attention California Customers:
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Chromium (Hexavalent Compounds), which is known to the State of California to cause cancer, and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
Lifetime Warranty
This item is backed by our limited lifetime warranty. In the event that this item should fail due to manufacturing defects during intended use, we will replace the part free of charge. This warranty covers the cost of the part only.
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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a side mirror on this 2012 Chevy Traverse. We show you on the driver side, but the passenger side is a similar procedure. The items you'll need for this are a 90 degree pick, a T30 Torx bit and ratchet, door panel clip tool, putty knife, flat-blade screwdriver, 10mm socket and a pair of pliers.
Start off by removing the panel behind the door handle and then this panel right here behind the pull handle. We use a 90 degree pick. You just stick it in a slot behind the top of the panel and then just pry out, it pulls right off, and then on this one, it's at the bottom of the panel. Same thing, just stick the pick in and pry out and you'll see this T30 bolt and then these two right here. You want to just go ahead and remove those. The clips on the back of these door panels are hard to get started, so what we do is we used a putty knife to protect the paint and then we stick a clip tool up along the putty knife on to the clip and then, using a flat-blade screwdriver in between the two of them, you pry out and it will release that clip. Once you get the first one, it's a little bit easier to get the rest. You just stick your hand up behind the panel and then find the clip, give it a good tug and just do this around each clip. Once you've released each of those clips, the door panel lifts up and off. Next, you have to disconnect your door handle cable, you just push this out of the bracket, pull it back and unclip the cable and then lift it up and out of the door handle. You want to disconnect these two harnesses, just push on the tab and pull them free. Now, you want to disconnect your mirror harness. Just push on the tab and pull it free. Then you want to pull the harness from the door. Use a pair of pliers, push the tabs together, and pull that clip out.
Then behind here is one of the 10mm nuts you're going to have to remove to get the mirror off. Use the pair of pliers to just pry up the clip below it and then using your 10mm socket and ratchet, remove those three 10mm nuts. Once those are removed, your mirror will pull right out and you just want to push that gasket through and feed the harness through the door.
Take your new mirror and feed your harness back through the door until you get to that gasket and then you want to line up the studs on the mirror and push them into the door, pull that gasket through the door and then we're going to fast forward here as Don replaces those three 10mm nuts and tightens them up. Push that clip back in and then push the clip on the harness back in and reconnect your mirror harness.
To re-install your door panel, just put your door handle rod back into place on the door handle, pull it back, clip it back into that bracket, and push it into place, and then reconnect your two harnesses. Lift your door panel up over the lock rod and push it down into place. You want to rest it up on the window sill and make sure it pushes back down in. Now, check around the edges, make sure the clips are lined up and then hit them into place. Replace the three T30 Torx bolts and tighten them up and now push those two panels back into place.
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In this video, we're going to be working with our 2012 GMC Acadia. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your driver side mirror. This information will be very similar to the passenger side as well.
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Here are the items you'll need for this repair: T30 Torx bit, ratchet, socket extension, flat head screwdriver, pick tools
Locate this notch in this cover panel inside of the door handle. Pull down. We're using a 90 degree hook pick here, but you could also use a trim tool or a small flat blade screwdriver. We'll also remove this cover inside the interior door latch. Again, there is a specific notch for you to pull from. Pop that panel out as well. This screw and the two behind the first cover we removed come out with a T30 Torx socket, a ratchet, and an extension. Lift up on your door lock. Using that same pick, we'll go in and release this panel to remove the actual lock.
On the bottom of the door panel, you'll find this notch which is designed for a plastic interior trim removal tool which is available from 1AAuto.com. You could also get this done with a pair of flat blade screwdrivers if you tape them up to try to protect the paint and the plastic panel, but these are the best solution for it. You want to push this up in between the panel and pry out until the plastic clip pops. You'll be able to see more of them as you pull more of the panel off. Get the forked end of the tool on either side of the pin and pry out. Be sure to hold the panel out, otherwise when you're moving around looking for these pins, and they could fall back in and make you have to start over. Once you have a few of the pins out, you may be able to just reach back and pull the rest of the panel out by hand.
Once all the clips are released, you can lift up, release the door latch cable by pushing up on the leg at the bottom and prying down on the one at the top, pulling the cable through the opening. You can then get the bare cable out. Slide it through the notch. Rotate it around, and pull the ball out of out of the release .Disconnect the electrical connectors through the door panel. It's the bottom green and bottom gray. Remove this clip retainer. This is another place where an interior trim removal tool comes in handy. We'll have to remove the clip from its retainer here as well and the gray one below it. Disconnect these as well. You can now set the door panel off to the side.
Another awesome use for these trim tools that we got from 1A Auto is to put one of the forked behind these retainers, pop it out nice and easily rather than fighting at it with screwdrivers and scratching up the paint inside of our door. We'll have to put our trim tool underneath this clip here, pop it out so we can access that 10 millimeter bolt as well as removing these two here and our T30 torque screw. We'll also have to push this harness and the little rubber boot here down and through the door to get our harness out.
We'll use the 10 millimeter deep socket, a ratchet and an extension just to get us up and away from that door panel, to remove the nuts. Let's do our T30 Torx bit, and remove the last bolt. Remember, as this comes out, we'll want to reach over and support our mirror so it doesn't fall once the bolt is free. Once that bolt's out we'll push down to move that boot for our wiring harness out, and remove our mirror from the door.
Feed the wiring harness for the mirror through the door. Pull on that boot a little to make sure that it seats in and keeps sending moisture and debris out of our vehicle. We'll reinstall our T30 Torx screw and our three 10-millimeter nuts before we tighten them all back down with our ratchet. Push the cover back down and reinstall the plastic clip into the hole at the bottom. Reconnect the retainer for the mirror wiring harness. Then you're ready to reinstall your door panel.
Reconnect your electrical connectors. Remember that these two here have to be snapped back into their spots on the door before we can reconnect the mirror sides. Reinstall the door latch cable into the opening at the back of the handle. Pull the cable out, and then set the retainer back in. Lift your door panel up over the lock rod here. Once the panel's lined back up, snap all the retainers back into place. Once the retainers are all clipped back in, you can reinstall your three T30 Torx screws. Reinstall the plastic covers. These ones have tabs on the bottom that need to be set in first, and then you roll the clips at the top over until they snap. The one behind the door latch simply snaps straight into place. Slide the lock cover over as far as it'll go. Snap the latch back in.
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MRA06054
Perfect fit. Video from this site was clear and made installation easy.
Perfect match to original mirror. Had to have it painted to match the car but fortunately I found an auto body place to paint it for 59.00. Watched a you tube video on how to install it and was not a problem at all. Hardest part is getting the door panel off and back on.
