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Trusted Quality: Trail Ridge Truck Accessories are developed and built with a promise to provide high quality, durable parts for your truck; backed by the best warranty in the automotive industry. Manufactured from the highest quality materials and constructed to meet or exceed OEM standards. Every Trail Ridge part is rigorously tested ensuring superior fit, function, and durability. Quality, trusted value, and hassle-free installation backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee.
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Hi. I'm Tony, with 1A Auto, here to talk to you today about the advantages of buying a quality, name-brand part for your vehicle, like this tow-mirror upgrade from Trail Ridge Truck Accessories.
Now, at first glance, this part may look nearly identical to a comparable, generic mirror that we brought to show you, but upon further inspection, the difference is clear between the fit and finish, the quality of the parts, and the attention to detail that really makes this mirror from Trail Ridge Truck Accessories a quality part that lasts.
The generic mirror already has a large scratch going across the face of the mirror, and there's pitting around the edges where the reflective material is already starting to fail. This mirror from Trail Ridge uses a very high-quality reflective material, as well as being a defrosting upper and panoramic mirror, where this one only has a defrosting upper mirror.
The Trail Ridge mirror has a much finer, more uniform finish. Another great benefit to these mirrors is the caps are interchangeable, so you have all this selection, on top of being a quality fit and finish on the largest section of your mirror, which is what the majority of people looking at your truck are going to see.
There’s nice clean metal on the hinge for this mirror. The generic part is already rusting out on the hinge. It's brand new. It's never been exposed to the elements. It's rusting out already.
We have the same color sockets on the generic mirror. The ends have waterproofing in them. Somebody did this very quickly. They also have steel contacts on them. On the Trail Ridge Truck mirrors, the sockets are color coded. We know which one goes where. We have a brass contact that's not going to corrode, and it's going to conduct electricity much more smoothly.
The wiring on the Trail Ridge mirror uses the OEM color coding, so all of these colors and pin-outs are going to match up for the factory wiring colors, as well as the pin locations. This generic mirror used whatever color wiring they had around. The wires in the Trail Ridge mirror are also a much heavier gauge. It also comes with an adapter harness for the earlier model trucks, that weren't as feature packed as the newer ones, which while still using the same bolt-on application, will have a different wire harness connector.
The Trail Ridge truck mirror still has that cool tinted look without being so dark that you're not going to be able to see your turn signals and side markers. The motor on the generic mirror is very loose. I can move this very easily by hand. The Trail Ridge truck mirror has nice smooth movement. It actually takes a little bit of force. These are zero-clearance motors, which means they're a lot more accurate. If you're using your mirror switch and you adjust it, when you let off, that's where it's staying.
We have a higher quality steel here. The ends are nice and secure, where you can see these are all bent up and banged up already.
On top of the physical differences that you've seen here in this comparison, these Trail Ridge truck mirrors also come backed with a 100% satisfaction guarantee, as well as the support of a toll-free call center, and online instructional videos and tips to help you make the best out of every upgrade. So if you want a set of these for your work truck or toy hauler, be sure to check them out. Available exclusively from 1AAuto.com.
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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a side view mirror on this 2003 F-250. The procedure is basically the same for any '99 to '07, although mirror options and whatever may differ. At 1A Auto, we do offer this towing-style mirror. You can obviously replace a broken mirror, and something popular for us is a lot of people replace the smaller, paddle-type mirrors with the large towing mirrors. We do offer these mirrors in manual as well as various power, power heated, etc. The tools you'll need are 7mm socket with a ratchet extension as well an 11mm socket and a flat-blade screwdriver.
If you wanted to prevent the battery from running down if you have the doors open for an extended period of time, just disconnect your negative battery cable using an 8mm wrench, loosen up the nut, and then pull the cable off. Using a small flat blade screwdriver, take this lens, pop it off. Mine's actually broken. Should pry out here. Pop it off. Here, you're going to do the same thing. You pull up your hand or use your screwdriver a little bit. Right in the front. You pull that up, pull it forward, and then you disconnect all the harnesses. There's little push tabs on them. Push on the tab with your thumb. Pull the harness here. Push on the tab here. Tab here. Push on it to remove it.
Same thing here. You just pull down this trim panel. It's got two clips that hold it on. Now there are two 7mm bolts, one right there and then one right there. 7mm socket with a ratchet extension, a wrench would work as well. Fast forward as I just remove those two bolts. Once those two bolts are off, just lift up on your panel, bring it out, and then behind is your courtesy light. Just turn it counterclockwise, pull the socket out, and your door panel comes off. Then you're going to want to pull down water shield here and disconnect this pin. Disconnect this harness connection. It's just a little tab right here. Push in and pull it out, put it back in. Then there are four 11mm mounting bolts, two right in there and then two behind the plugs. I'm going to speed up the tape here through removing those four 11mm nuts. You want to try to avoid dropping them down into the door if you can. I'm very careful. At one point, you'll see I actually use a screwdriver to help me keep a bolt in the socket. If you do drop them down in the door, not the biggest or worst thing, you just have to remove the speaker to reach down in there. There's the mirror off. The new mirror from 1A Auto comes with a new pad, peel the backing off. Run the two studs there. Pull your harness down. You want to stick it down into the mirror. Take the mirror, put your harness through first. Now, again, feed the harness all the way down. Make sure it doesn't get caught up at all. Pull the studs through.
What you want to do is just put one of your bolts on through, start it on there. See my harness connection. Just feeding it up through here and pulling it through. Make sure it's through correctly. Start another bolt, or, nut. I'll speed up here as I just start those four 11mm nuts and then tighten them up. You want to tighten them up nice and firm. There's no reason to over-tighten them. You don't have to get them as tight as possible or anything like that. You just want to tighten them nice and firm. Take that, bring your switch up here. Obviously, you'll have to reconnect the battery to do this. Quick test. Mirror's working.
To reinstall your door panel, what you want to do is take your bottom clips and they're actually designed just to go on here and rest in place and you reach down and put in your courtesy light, and turn it clockwise to lock it in. Then make sure all these harnesses coming up through. Press it against, lift it up a little bit, make sure your door lock comes through, press it against. You lift it just up a little bit, push it in, and bring it down on to make sure you're nice and tight against the door. Nice and tight against the door over here. Then put these plugs back in place.
We'll speed it up again as I take those two 7mm screws, put them in and tighten them up nice and firm. Now I'm going to clip the molding on off the top to cover the mirror mounting holes and then take my switch panel, reconnect all my harnesses, then I slide the tab back into the back first. Make sure no wires are getting pinched in there and then clip it down in place. It's all set. If you disconnected your battery, then reconnect it, and tighten up the 8mm bolt.
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