Painting mudflaps and removing door mirrors Mk1

Technical Area Body, Interior & Styling
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Hi All, My car is going in for some body work shortly and the garage agreed to repaint my door mirrors and mudflaps for a pretty low price if I removed and prepped them. So I have 2 questions.

1. I can remove the mirrors easily but want to strip them down by removing the motor and glass , How do you remove the motor, I can see teh screw but can’t get at it.

  1. My mudflaps have some deep scrapes, they seem to be made from a soft polythene style material, I was hoping to sand these down and fill the damage with some P38 filler. Is this going to be possible? Any tricks or special primer required?

 

Many Thanks

Ian

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 Using a filler on the mud flaps doesn’t last too long as the flaps are flexible and as a result the filler will crack. Due to the price of a new front set I have repaired and resprayed mine about 4 times but I finally bit the bullet and did buy two new ones.

What I like about the new ones apart from them being new is that they appear to be a bit shorter and are therefore a bit further from the ground, and, touch wood, upto now they haven’t been scraped yet.