You will require a warm day, patience, several small common blade screwdrivers one long (6-8") thin shaft common blade (borrow some from you neighbor…unless of course you still have them from the last time you borrowed his tools). Where before there were two options for making the mirror adjustment, the new procedure is simpler and replaces both previous approaches. Since this is a backyard mechanic project I cannot overemphasize the benefit of drawing upon your deepest reserves of patience. It will benefit you to read all the instructions and review the illustrations thoroughly before you start this project.

First, I will start with an orientation of the inside of the mirror. It will help you understand the various steps to disassemble the mirror and make the adjustment. Hindsight is 20/20 and if I had had this detail when I started the project, it would have prevented me from snapping off one of the plastic mounting tabs. As it turned out, the tab wasn’t necessary to reassemble of the mirror…but it elevated me to another level of frustration with Ford (which I verbalized with a long run of superlatives!) for not taking responsibility to correct the obvious misalignment. Fig 1 is the rear of the mirror assembly with the back cover removed. Note the four oblong holes at the 1,4,8 and 11o’clock positions. These are the mounting holes that hold the back cover mounting tabs in place. The holes go all the way through the back mount (this will prove very useful later). You can just make out two of the mounting tits that hold the lower fixed mirror in place. One is located half way between the left bottom oblong hole and the lower mounting arm. The other is located below the right bottom oblong hole. A third fixed mirror mount tit is not visible in the picture but located below the lower arm half way between the two upper mounts. Fig 2 is a close-up of the lower and right hand fixed mirror mount tits. Fig 3 is the back cover. Note the mounting tabs. They fit in the oblong holes on the back of the mirror assembly (the upper right one is missing…it’s the one I broke off removing the back cover). Note that the tabs have tear dropped shaped holes in them. The oblong holes in the back of the mirror assembly have small molded posts in them that the tear drop shaped holes in the tabs snap over when the back cover is in place. The posts are molded into the bottom of the two bottom oblong holes and to the top of the two top oblong holes. Removing these back cover tabs from the molded posts will be your biggest challenge. You must access the tabs from the front of the mirror mount and behind the large moveable mirror (manual or electric). You push up on the bottom tabs to release them and pull down on the top tabs. This is where you will need a bushel of patience and the long thin shaft common screwdriver.

Step 1. Use a small screwdriver to release the cover lip snaps on the mirror mounting arms (Fig4). Leave the screwdriver in place to hold each snap open as you undo all four snaps (top and bottom of both extension arms) (Fig 5)

Step 2. Gently push the upper outside corner of the large movable mirror inward until it won’t go any further. This will move the bottom inside corner out so that you will have access behind the mirror, to the front of the mirror mount. Fig 6 and Fig 7 illustrates, as best I could get with the digital camera and available light, what the upper outside corner tab and hole look like. With a good, strong light source you will be able to see the oblong hole and tip of the tab that hold the back cover in place. Using the long skinny screw driver lift up on the tab to clear the molded post. You may need to put something under the tab to hold it up off the post while you release the other tabs. I used some flexible thick solder wire that wouldn’t interfere with moving the large mirror to gain access to the other tabs. Move the large mirror to gain access to the top right tab and do the same as for the lower tab except remember that you have to push down on the top tabs to release them. Move to the outside lower tab next and then the outside upper tab last. At this point the rear cover should come off.

Step 3. On the back of the mirror mount, pinch the three fixed mirror-mounting tits together and remove the fixed mirror. Handle it gently so as not to break off one of the tits and/or stress the mirror causing it to break. Slide a piece of rubber tubing (windshield washer tube works) tubing over the lower fixed mirror mount (Fig 8). The tubing should be long enough to prevent the lower mount from reengaging in its mounting slot.

Step 4. Carefully reinstall fixed mirror. Do not push to hard on the front of it. Too much pressure on the front will crack the mirror (Tip from one of our fellow PSD owners who learned the hard way). When I reinstalled the fixed mirror, I put a small piece of rubber tubing between the space in each top mount tit to ensure they would not pull back through as a result of leverage pressure from the bottom mount not being seated.

Step 5. Carefully reinstall the back cover. Take your time and get all the seams lined up correctly as you push the back cover into place. Pay particular attention to the inside seam between the extension arms and the seam below the lower extension arm.

Congratulations! You now have full, safe visibility from your driver's side lower fixed mirror!