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How do you remove the rearview mirror tab from the mirror if there is no screw?
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∙ 8y ago
with a small screw driver pry on the metal tension and remove
I've noticed different mirrors have different tricks. On an '02 Nissan Xterra you can slide a hack saw blade between the mirror tab or "button" and a small spring tab you can see from the bottom notch. Slide it in around .75" until you bump up against another spring tab. Push further and at the same time pull the mirror up off the button
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How do you remove the rear view mirror from the metal button 98 Sentra don't want to remove button from glass separate the plastic mirror base from metal button see no retaining screw How remove?
I have no experience with removing the rearview on a Nissan specificially but on a ford the are some tiny holes you need to push something into in order to push the retaining clip away from the metal button. There are tools for this I found on the net that look like 2 prongs of a fork so I thought what the heck, bent back prong 2 and 4 of a decent length 4 prong metal fork and used that. Worked fine. I imagine if I had a small enough flat tip screw driver to stick in there it would have worked as well. It still takes a bit of force to pull the mirror off the button even with the clip depressed. Atleast it did for me.Here's another possibility: I just finished wrestling with removing the button from a Nissan Xterra rearview mirror. It has the wedge style button (beveled edges), rather than the channel style. At the bottom of the button I could see a small tab of spring steel. No matter what I did to the tab it wouldn't release the button. Finally, I took an old hack saw blade (you could probably use anything long and flat like that) and slid it in between the tab and the button from the bottom. Once you get in about .75" you'll bump up against the spring tab holding the button in. Push further against the spring with your hack saw blade and at the same time pull the mirror off the button. That's it! Once you get it off you see how simply it was being held on. Hope this saves someone else the time I wasted on this...Nissan 99 sentra: A thin metal shim jammed in under the button released the clip on the mirror button. I used a shim from a set of feeler gages/spark plug setting shims and jammed it in under the button as far as it would go to release the clip. There is a round depression that the clip is stuck in and the shim pushes it out of the depression. Button slid out easily after that. THANKS TO ORIGINAL POSTER OF THIS ANSWER...SAVED ME TIME AND FROM BREAKING THE DARN MIRROR FRAME/BUTTON HOLDER.
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