The interior rear-view mirror is a dipping day and night assembly catalogued as a single specification across all MGF and MG TF production. It mounts to the windscreen glass via a self-adhesive fixing slug, which is included with new windscreens but also orderable separately since it is a common hot-weather failure point, as the adhesive softens at high cabin temperatures, allowing the mirror to detach from the glass, and re-bonding the slug requires thorough cleaning of the old adhesive before fitting the replacement.
Door Mirror Evolution
MGF door mirrors changed from manual-adjust to electric-adjust during production, with all MG TF receiving electric mirrors throughout. Earlier MGFs use manually adjusted mirrors, the glass tilted by internal cables operated by a knob inside the cabin, with a replacement knob catalogued along with a gaiter covering the knob's cable-pass-through, fitted during a specific production window.
Later MGFs and all MG TF use electrically-adjusted mirrors operated from a switch on the centre console, with heated glass elements standard.
Paint-Coded Ordering
Replacement exterior mirrors are supplied colour-matched to the car's original factory paint via a three-letter suffix added to the base part number. The paint code is found on the car's identification plate mounted on the right-hand side of the under-bonnet compartment, a three-letter code from approximately thirty factory options including colours such as CMU Solar Red, HAM British Racing Green 2, JBH Wedgwood Blue, JRJ Tahiti Blue, and FAR Trophy Yellow, plus the distinctive Chromaflex finish on late-production MG TFs. Ordering the correct mirror requires identifying five specifications, manual or electric adjustment, handed left or right, RHD or LHD market, convex or flat glass for the Australia-specific flat right-hand requirement, and the three-letter paint code.
Primed, Glass-Only & Covers
For owners whose cars have been repainted in non-standard colours, or for bodyshops carrying out colour-match work, primed unpainted variants of the electric mirrors are catalogued for the owner or bodyshop to colour-match. Replacement mirror glass alone is catalogued separately in convex and flat specifications for both manual and electric mirror types, useful when only the glass has been damaged but the mirror body and mechanism are sound, with four mirror fixing screws and matching screw-cover caps completing the mounting hardware. A stick-on wing mirror cover is catalogued as a cosmetic accessory that changes the mirror's appearance without replacing the whole assembly, and for cars specified without door mirrors, handed blanking plates are catalogued to cover the mirror mounting apertures on the door skin.