K-Source Custom Extendable Towing Mirror - Electric/Heat - Textured Black - Driver Side

Video Transcript for K-Source Custom Extendable Towing Mirror Installation - 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500

Speaker 1: Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. We're going to be taking a look at, and show you how to install the K-Source custom extendable towing mirror, part number KS62148G. If you'd like to pick one up for the passenger side, use part number KS62147G. These also come as a set, by using part number KS62147-48G. Here's what our towing mirror looks like when it's installed. It's going to be a custom fit to replace our factory mirror.It's going to have a durable plastic housing with a black textured finish that's going to match nicely with the vehicle.

It's also going to have a heated mirrored glass, for that winter, snow, and ice. The hinge design allows you to fold your mirror in when parking in tight places. It's also going to allow you to telescope your mirror out. It's allow you to see past the side of your trailer. It's going to help with passing on the highway, changing lanes, etc.

And it's going to be fully adjustable from inside the vehicle.Our lower mirror, is going to be our spotter mirror, this is going to help reduce our blind spots. And it's going to be manually adjustable to help maximize our line of sight. Our top mirror here is going to be 6-7/8 wide by 7-3/4. Our lower mirror from top to bottom is going to be 3-1/4. From side to side, it's going to be 6-7/8.

Now that we've gone over some of the features of this mirror, I'm going to show you just how easy it is to get on. First thing we need to do is remove our factory mirror. In order to do that, we're going to have to loosen up our door panel.One thing we're not going to have to do, we're not going to take the door panel all the way off. We're going to have two bolts on the bottom we're going to need to remove. We're going to use a 9/32 socket to remove those.

Next what we're going to do, is we're going to start right here on the side, and we're going to pull out. We're going to work our way around. We're going to have a fastener right here. Take a trim panel tool, flathead screwdriver get it in there, and pop that off.We're just going to take this panel, we're going to pop it off like this. And it's on a seam here, so what we're going to do is we're going to kind of pull back this way. Just lift out like that. Now what I'm going to do, is instead of letting this hang, because it's really, really flimsy, take a piece of tape, just kind of take the weight off of itself. This wire that runs from the back of our mirror, you can see it's got some fasteners on it and they're pushed in it. It runs right down to the plug. We need to remove those.Then all we need to do is with a plug, and then go ahead and pop that off. Pull out like that. And right there, there's a little tab we're going to push in. Push in, and pull out. It'll look like that right there. Next we'll take a 10 millimeter socket, go ahead and loosen up the nut. We're going to come to our outside here. We'll just pop that out and pull the whole cable and everything out. Now on our factory mirror, we only have three mounting locations. On our new one here, we have a fourth one, so we're going to have to drill a hole.Per our instructions, we're going to need to drill this out through a 3/8. But we're going to start with a pilot hole first. Once you got your pilot hole drilled, we're going to finish it out with a 3/8 bit. Now I'm going to use a little bit of clear coat. You can use any color you have, some spray enamel to cover up that bare metal. It will help prevent any rust or corrosion later on. You're not going to see any of it because all this covers it anyway. Next we're going to add some little rubber tabs, or little rubber cover. Go ahead and pull those off.We're going to start from the outside here. We're going to feed our wire through the large hole. We're going to line up of our screw holes. You want to make sure you get that grommet in there, just like that. Now your kit's going to come with four nuts, except the nuts are smaller than those holes. So I recommend using your factory ones that you took off, and then for the fourth one, we're going to use one of the new nuts that come in the kit. And then we're just going to put a washer on the back of it. And we'll go ahead and reinstall our new wire.It's going to come with new fasteners, push pin fasteners here. So we're just going to put them in the same holes that we took out our factory one. Get the plug lined up, just push it into place. Now we can remove our tape. We're going to slide our panel back in like this. Now there's a lip right here on the side, we want to get it around this edge. We're going to go around and make sure that lip is all the way around all of it. Then you just want to make sure you push that fastener back in. Then we can start putting our door panel back together.We're just going to go around the edge. You're just going to make sure it's all popped into place. Once that's done, you can replace your two screws at the bottom. That'll do it for our look at it and installation on the K Source custom extendable towing mirror, part number KS62148G on our 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500.