Librands stainless on mine, in the original base/arm assembly. The only problem I had was that the new mirror stem is 10mm whereas the original was 9.5mmm and so wouldn't go through the plastic gland at the top of the arm, which is soft plastic on mine. If it had been hard plastic (as some I have seen) I could have reamed or drilled it out, but this wasn't possible with the soft material. So I just cut a slit in the plastic along its length, this allowed the new stem to slide through and then refitted the gland into the arm and tightened the screw.

I think the best solution would be to buy a set of base/arm + stem/mirror so that everyhting just bolts on in one go. Also you'd then have a stainless base, no pitting. More ££ though.

And definitely buy the convex ones if you want to have any reasonable rearward visiblity, especially on the passenger side.

Nigel

Last edited by nputtick; 19/03/12 06:45 PM.