Whistling Driver side mirror

[Tyrethrower22]

I’ve noticed a whistling noice coming from my mirror, anyways to fix it. (It’s driving me mad lmfao)

[Nicklouse]

Most of the time is is not the mirror but the door seals. As the hinges wear the door drops. And you get a whistle through the seal. It also lets water in during heavy rain.

If the whistle is there with the window up or down then yes it might be the mirror.

[Tyrethrower22]

Cheers for that mate I’ll have a look into it.
But yea it still happens with the windows up or down

[BenT]

If it is the mirror, you can stop it by applying some sealant along the horizontal join where the mirror swivels on the plastic (wind-facing) side of the mirror. It'll tear if you try to fold the mirror in, unless you grease one half so the sealant only sticks to the other half. Worked for me anyway. As did gaffer tape over the join!

[SnoWhite]

From posts on here it seems this mostly affects painted mirrors - and on my Maxi a spell of experimentation showed the noise was coming from the gap on the underside of the mirror.

It went away after I covered over the gap with a short length of insulation tape. Nice cheap fix.

[Paul B.]

I managed to fix my whistling mirror today. Removed the black plastic trim that sits around the mirror (not rear of mirror housing) put a bead of clear silicone all way round tiny groove then refitted and secured overnight with tape to set... 70mph down road and no whistle whatsoever and can still fold in mirrors - hope helps/works for others...

[STP]

Do you mean the trim that clips around the mirror glass? The thin square ish bit?

[ZappaF]

Pics please! I don’t understand which part of the mirror you mean…
Thanks

[Paul B.]

Yes the bit round the glass will take picture tomorrow but not sure if I can post them yet

[STP]

Yeah I get you.

Have to use something like imgbox (it's free) to upload pictures there and then insert into a post using the IMG link they provide.

[Paul B.]

Sorry trying again

https://imgbox.com/6pxJLV88

[STP]

Gallery is private so can't access it, what to do is edit your post, click the picture icon on the editor so it puts an IMG tag in, then paste that link in between the IMG tags and post again.

[fastyan]

going to try this at the weekend as had enough of my whistling thanks

[STP]

Sorry trying again

https://imgbox.com/6pxJLV88

Ok got it now, I did think mine whistled from the lower front horizontal gap where it swivels closed but yeah will try this (I'll put electrical tape on various bits until it shuts up and see what fixes it, including this area). Thanks for the pic.

[Paul B.]

Hope it helps, been bugging me since bought van last year and read and tried numerous solutions from here with no luck. On way back from school run with window open decided to pull the offending piece off and no whistle so thought it could be air flow passing through the gap between rear housing and the front piece of trim... 5 min silicone and overnight taped up mirror and sorted....