Mangesium mirrors

[Jossi]

In the window rubber lining against the side mirror housing you can take a flat screwdriver and take out much dust and particles of magnesium. Aluminium does not dissolve / corrode like this . It´s not a problem , really. Anyone else got it?


Jossi

 

[Skipton01]

Yes - completely white here, but as you say, it's completely normal and won't affect anything structurally.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[erstens]

Sorry, but I am a chemist and we did a research for the mirror- white powder at the Techn. Univ. of Berlin: It is Aluminimhydroxyde so it is not Magnesium but alloy (aluminium)!.
And here you find the images and I also have the XRD Datasheet.

Here my post: http://www.a2oc.net/forum/showpost.php?p=45621&postcount=14
images:

And, yes, it is "normal", I bet, because it is made from die cast and no other mode of forming the metal (sheet metal made from alloy like the doors etc. would not look so bad I think, even when not painted).