Audi A4 Wing Mirror: Specs, Fitment & Common Faults
A genuinely important clarification: mirrors are deliberately designed not to fold above a certain speed, a genuine safety feature rather than a fault — plus an honest account of unequal mirror positions being reported to Audi as a genuine defect.
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Audi A4 Wing Mirror: OEM Part Number
Audi A4 Wing Mirror: More Electronics Hiding Inside Than Most People Realise
The Audi A4's wing mirrors bundle a surprising amount of hardware behind that glass — folding motors, heating elements, indicator lights, sometimes blind-spot sensors — meaning a single vague complaint like "the mirror's not working" could describe several distinct faults.
Audi A4 Wing Mirror: Driver's Side or Passenger Side? Sorting Out the Terminology
Side confusion is one of the most common ordering errors with Audi A4 wing mirrors, since UK sellers and catalogues don't always describe left and right the same way. Here's how it breaks down on a right-hand-drive UK car:
- Driver's side = right-hand (RH) = offside (OS) — the side closest to the centre of the road.
- Passenger side = left-hand (LH) = nearside (NS) — the side closest to the kerb.
Part listings may use any of these terms interchangeably — "RH mirror," "offside mirror," and "driver's side mirror" all refer to the same physical part on a UK-spec A4. Double-check which convention your supplier is using before ordering, since a mix-up here is one of the most common reasons the wrong mirror turns up.
Audi A4 Wing Mirror: What It Does
Beyond the obvious job of rear visibility, modern wing mirrors on higher trims of the A4 often integrate turn signal repeaters, puddle lights, heating elements to clear condensation, and power-fold motors for tight parking spaces. Higher-spec versions may also house blind-spot monitoring sensors, making them considerably more expensive to replace than a basic mirror.
Audi A4 Wing Mirror: Generations, Derivatives, Colour & Mirror Adjustment
| All generations, standard trims | Ibis White, Brilliant Black, Mythos Black, Manhattan Grey, Navarra Blue; electric adjustment is standard on most trims from this generation, with heated glass increasingly common too — though the most basic specification may still be manual; confirm your exact trim |
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| Glacier White (metallic option) | A genuinely different, multi-stage paint to the solid Ibis White — Audi doesn't sell official touch-up paint for it, and owner accounts describe colour-matching after chips as a real issue |
| S4/RS4 | Misano Red, Turbo Blue, Daytona Grey and Quantum Grey are popular performance-trim shades; electric adjustment and heated glass are standard on this trim |
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A Genuinely Important Clarification Worth Knowing — Audi A4 Wing Mirror
If the mirrors won't fold in or out while the car is moving, this is genuinely worth knowing: these mirrors are deliberately designed not to fold above a certain speed, as a genuine safety feature rather than a fault. It's also genuinely worth knowing that this "in-motion" folding restriction is a genuine, deliberately built-in feature, likely related to type approval requirements, that has in at least one documented case been built into the car specifically to prevent folding while driving — one owner discovered this had cost them money in a misdiagnosed repair before realising it was a deliberate restriction rather than a fault.
It's also genuinely worth knowing that on some models, the mirrors are wired directly into the door control module rather than having their own dedicated fuse, meaning a simple fuse check can be a dead end.
Audi A4 Wing Mirror: Common Faults, DIY Difficulty & Aftermarket Advice
These are the same regardless of make or model — see our full Wing Mirror Guide for common faults to check for, confirming the exact spec against your VIN, how difficult this job is to DIY, and aftermarket advice.
More Audi Wing Mirror
The same part, covered across other Audi models.