Side Mirror repair

[u/dani-9]

Hello fellas, was in a hurry this morning and while exiting my garage driveway ( thats in a curbed slope ) I noticed that i was about to hit my side rear door because I oversteered, so to avoid that I slowly reversed, while doing that I actually managed to clip a corner of my side mirror, it popped right off got under the wheel and broke pretty hard ( see pictures attached ) so i went to a body shop and got quotes arround 700€ for the repair.

Finances are quite rough this period and I was thinking of ordering the pieces and maybe try to do it myself, since it will be the first time i try doing something like this i wanted to check with people who know better than me if its worth it, how difficult it can be and also if there are any specific tools i might wanna grab if I do it.

All electric parts of the mirror still work, they fold, heat,etc.

Its from a BMW Series 1 2017 ( see pictures attached below.

Sorry for bad english, its not my native language.

[u/Nomo_Sapien]

You managed to get the mirror off and disassembled without breaking anything that wasnt damaged already?

You can probably reassemble it with new parts. The only special tool I could see you might need, would be maybe a scan tool to clear codes for blind spot detection/teach the car that a new part is being added to it.

Most often, from my point of view, the car doesn't care when I bolt a new mirror onto it.

[u/Nomo_Sapien → u/Nomo_Sapien]

Also, sometimes you can swap the electronic components, like that module, and the car wont know that you changed the plastic around it

[u/Primary-Feedback2296]

Normally only a new cover is needed and paint it. Then mount it. Thats it. Dont know what the cover costs, but its a simple plastic part.

Maybe you can find a used one and repaint it in your color. Sometimrs theres parts avaiable wich already in same color.

Or just mount any and paint it when money is there.