Son has a 2014 Fiesta, last week he was driving along and the passenger side mirror went mad! Like having a mind of its own, he had to stop and see what was up, there was a massive gap between the black plastic part which is on the door and the actual mirror, everything was dead loose, so taped it all together.

On stripping the mirror down it became evident what had happened, there's a big steel lock-ring with teeth held tight against the central shaft, this steel ring had snapped in two, thus allowing everything to come apart, only the wires stopped it from dropping on the road.

38 minutes ago, Ian Lanc said:

On stripping the mirror down it became evident what had happened, there's a big steel lock-ring with teeth held tight against the central shaft, this steel ring had snapped in two, thus allowing everything to come apart, only the wires stopped it from dropping on the road.

I get the feeling that the same bloke that designed the bonnet opening mechanism on the Focus was also involved in the design of the mirrors LOL 🤣

6 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

I get the feeling that the same bloke that designed the bonnet opening mechanism on the Focus was also involved in the design of the mirrors LOL 🤣

.......and then they moved him onto Sync 3!😀

This thread prompted me to have a look at our owners handbooks and interestingly the book for my wife's SEAT says they can be folded but very carefully and gives the impression that you aren't intended to do it very often. The Ford handbook makes no such stipulation in respect of manual mirrors so I think an owner would be perfectly entitled to assume they could do it regularly without problems.