Citroen DS4 Rearview Mirror

Used interior mirrors through South African strippers run R200 to R1,200, and where you land depends entirely on the electronics — a plain manual-dip mirror is at the bottom, an auto-dimming unit with rain sensor wiring at the top. Pro Citroen Spares and our supplier network carry stock. Tell us which type yours is, because a plain mirror will physically fit a car that needs the sensor version and then nothing works.

First establish what came off. If the metal button is still bonded to the glass, you simply need to refit the mirror to it. If the button came away too, clean both the button and the glass thoroughly, let them dry, and bond the button back with a proper mirror adhesive kit such as Loctite 319 — ordinary adhesives will not survive a South African summer. Leave it for 24 hours before hanging any weight on it.

The mirror base slides over the windscreen button and locks with a rotation — align it, turn it roughly 90 degrees until it clicks home, then nip up the small grub screw that stops it rotating back. Do not overtighten that screw; it is small and it strips easily, and a stripped one means a new mirror. If the button itself has come off the glass, bond that back first and let it cure fully.

Not usually. Interior mirror glass is bonded into the housing and, on auto-dimming units, is part of an electrochromic assembly filled with gel — it is not a serviceable part. A complete used mirror through Pro Citroen Spares costs less than specialist re-silvering. Exterior wing mirror glass is entirely different: that clips onto a backing plate and does replace on its own.

Pro Citroen Spares carries used interior mirrors for the C3, Xsara, C3 Aircross and C5 Aircross, including auto-dimming and rain-sensor variants, with our supplier network behind that. Send the VIN and a photograph of the back of your existing mirror — the connector and the number of pins tell us immediately which variant you need, and the model name alone often does not.