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I was in the area of a local Toyota dealer while running some errands and thought I would stop by to have them check out my vibrating driver's side mirror that's been going on for about a month now. After almost an hour waiting, a tech comes up to me while I was waiting in the FJ, pushes on the mirror and says the motor has play in it and he'll order another one. Over 30 minutes later someone comes up to me and hands me my keys saying that since the mirrors were painted black and therefore not OEM equipment anymore, there was nothing they could do about it. They claimed they even called the Toyota hotline...blah blah. I said, so since it's painted, that means it's not a Toyota part anymore? HE SAID YES! I seriously thought about going and pulling the Toyota emblem off the friggin thing and asking him if it was no longer a Toyota. I said are you aware of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty act that states in a nutshell that you have to prove that me adding black paint to my mirror causes it to malfunction and vibrate, rendering it useless? He just started to say that they couldn't cover it again, and I said I've already heard your premeditated response, took my keys and left. Any of you with painted mirrors had problems and had to get them warrantied?