Rear view mirror question

[707Tahoe]

I haven't done anything yet as I got busy. I'm looking to try smaller solder. The solder I'm using takes to long to heat, and when it does I have trouble keeping it neat

 

[Rivieraracing]

I cheat, I just melt a tad bit of solder to the tip of my gun and then reflow the solder on the board. Works great!

 

[707Tahoe]

You know thats not a bad idea. Might have to try that out. I'll wait till I get the smaller solder first just incase I can't get it to work right.

 

[Rivieraracing]

Pay for shipping both ways and send it to me, I'll reflow the joints for you and get it working if that's the problem it has! Just an idea!

 

[707Tahoe]

Update I finally got the correct size solder and reflowed ALL joints. We'll see how this works seeing as its a hot weekend

 

[Rivieraracing]

Update I finally got the correct size solder and reflowed ALL joints. We'll see how this works seeing as its a hot weekend

So does it seem to be working correctly now, didn't it start flashing or something when you first tried to reflow the solder?

 

[707Tahoe]

Yup its all good now. I even did the reflow of the joint for my PRNDL light in the cluster and got that back working also. Thx for the info

 

[Rivieraracing]

Right on, glad it all worked out in the end! Mine still has worked flawless so I knew that was gonna be the solution for you as well! Love it when a plan comes together!

 

[John Bragg]

Good info this issue had been bothering me since I bought mine. Once some warmer weather comes I am definitely gonna try this those lights coming on and off drive me crazy lol

 

[Rivieraracing]

Good info this issue had been bothering me since I bought mine. Once some warmer weather comes I am definitely gonna try this those lights coming on and off drive me crazy lol

Super easy to take out of the truck and work on it indoors! If and when you do, could you please update your results on here!

 

[John Bragg]

Super easy to take out of the truck and work on it indoors! If and when you do, could you please update your results on here!

Definitely will looking for some free time to do it too lol

 

[chr_edw]

Took mike apart yesterday but could not find any cracked solider. Brushed off some junk but other than that looked good. Re-assembled and still working intermittently.

What am is missing?

 

[Rivieraracing]

Did you reflow those solder joints? If not, take it apart and be sure to reflow them as when I did mine I didn't see anything obvious but when I did reflow them anyways the mirror has worked perfect ever since!
Try that first, there has been one guy on here that I know that even after reflowing them a few times his was still screwed up and had to buy a new mirror!

 

[mwilson62000]

Question. I want to take the mirror out of the truck. I have the mirror with on star. There seems to be a separate cable besides the regular connector coming from the mirror to the black box attached to the windshield. Does this unplug from the back of mirror or from the black box?

 

[treehan77]

where can i buy this clip for the rearview mirror?

 

[mwilson62000]

Took the torx screw out and the whole mirror just slid off the mount. Pretty damn easy. Anyway, reflowed
All the solder joints and put it back in. Compass and temp showing brightly now!!

 

[Rivieraracing]

Took the torx screw out and the whole mirror just slid off the mount. Pretty damn easy. Anyway, reflowed
All the solder joints and put it back in. Compass and temp showing brightly now!!

Awesome! So did you see a bad soldering joint or did it all look good so you just reflowed them anyway? Thanks for checking back in with your results!

 

[mwilson62000]

Even with a magnifying glass, I couldn't really see any obvious cracks in solder. I just reflowed all the larger ones. Worked fine again this morning for the drive to work.

 

[Rivieraracing]

Nice! Just thought I'd ask, didn't see anything at all wrong when I did mine but it worked like a charm after reflowing them all!

 

[Wagnasty]

I tried reflowing all my joints, which some were cracked. But my problem is in the section of wire right behind the mirror. Have no clue where I'm going to be able to find a plug/pigtail.