éclat door mirror colour

[Alan_M]

I have a 78/9 éclat with the electric mirrors.
They have the chrome base and a rather faded body. Were these originally dark grey or black?

[Pete Boole]

If they are the Autosafe mirrors I've always thought they were black. I'll be using some sort of "back to black" product on mine. I've got mine dismantled at the moment - I'll have a look inside them to see if it's more obvious.

Pete

[AndrewWebber]

Mine look satin black, but I can’t be sure they have not had some paint a some stage ( but unlikely)

Andy

[Alan_M]

The top of mine are faded to light grey, the lower half is dark grey- but this could be faded from black.
Satin black would make sense to match the bumpers and sills.
Will investigate products to turn them black again.

[Pete Boole]

Just had a look at the inside of my door mirror shells - black.

Pete

[Alan_M]

Thanks folks - seems black it is.
Now to best way to restore - one of the plastic recolouring/renovating magic chemicals or proper paint.