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Old 2nd March 2017, 09:53 AM
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I believe so - my recently advertised plastic mirror caps were intended to be swapped onto the aluminium housings and I recall the research I did at the time suggested all would line up fine.

I did toy with buying new mirror bodies as well, to avoid the need to remove the caps, and that's the main reason I never fitted my plastic caps as sensibly priced new mechanisms never came up!
So you wanted to replace your aluminium caps with plastic?
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Old 2nd March 2017, 01:34 PM
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I wanted the option to run plastic over winter and to reduce theft risk (which I managed to achieve by always garaging the car instead!)
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Old 2nd March 2017, 02:02 PM
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Ahh I see. Garage is always preferable!
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