Side Mirror Melted!!

2021 Toyota Tacoma Sport with about 14,500 miles on it now.

Went outside this afternoon to my driver's side mirror completely melted and warped. I'm in RI and the weather has been going from 70 to 50 so not hot enough to melt it.

Assuming light was reflecting off something and heating it up somehow. Has this happened to anyone else with their Tacomas side mirror? The dealership said they've never heard of this happening before and there are no recalls...

I looked it up and saw a couple of posts about the front grill and slight melting on the mirrors but nothing like this.

 

https://parts.camelbacktoyota.com/v...d-off-road--3-5l-v6-gas/body--outside-mirrors #5 left side, they are cheap, easy to replace, and prepainted.

 

Woah! Melting car parts!

 

Damn

 

Acid rain is back!

 

Thanks @tkelly19 for giving me one more thing to worry about
Wow. Very weird.

 

Bummer., sorry OP

 

Detailer here... I have no clue

 

That's some serious heat! Notice any other plastics warped?

Either way, I wouldn't park there again.

 

How fast were you going?

Seriously do you have heated mirrors/antifrost. Did any fuse blow?

 

Years ago living in NC i had a 2013 GMC sierra. Came out one day and noticed that the drivers mirror was melted, not near as bad though... "Odd" I thought to myself, and at the next service I talked to the dealer about it. They said "Nobody has ever seen anything like this before, including the warranty center..." a couple weeks later and the new mirror arrived and was installed, only to have the new one melt a few weeks later, and worse.

This made me want to look into it and see what was going on. Turns out that when I backed into my driveway, the upstairs windows with reflective tint that faced south was casting their reflection onto the truck. Even in the fall time in NC this was enough to melt the ABS plastic housing of my mirror.

 

@ToyoTaco25 No other plastic warps. Parked in my driveway like normal gotta find another place to park lmao

 

Do you have mirror heaters? maybe they came bad from factory

 

I have seen this a few times.
Just told the customer not to park where she/he was again.

 

I’m just here waiting for someone to say “that’s why I’m not buying a 3rd gen”

 

There is a thread where grills were melting too

 

@GBourne Damn. Was definitely reflected off the side windows of the house. Never parking there again once it gets fixed.

 

Completely normal. Wait until you see the frame in a few years

 

@FloridaFree no mirror heaters

 

@Steves104x4 yea can't wait