Thanks for the info, the scratches can be felt with your fingernail, in fact it's down to the metal by the wheel arch. In fact, many of these companies will also sell you other mirror components, such as replacement mirror covers, mirror indicators and even the complete mirror unit. Read a few instances of this happening and same thing happen to someone on another forum recently. They mentioned that they’d been using the heated option. VW should really program in a cut off.

If your original mirror glass had a heated function this will still work as the broken mirror beneath the replacement will heat through to the new mirror glass. Please note that it will take a slightly longer time to heat through to the new mirror glass It wouldn't have been so bad if it happened at like 30mph, but that air speed has caused it to smash into the side of the Car quite violently. If you want to hand over the most cash for your replacement mirror glass, head for your local main dealer, who will probably try to sell you the entire unit, including any electric motors. I was doing a ton when it happened, then all of a sudden I heard banging against the side of the Car, it was dark, and I didn't realise what it was at first, until I noticed the driver mirror missing, about 10 seconds later.How deep are the scratches? Do they catch when you run a fingernail over them? If not then they’ll polish out hopefully but if they do then they are beyond the clear coat and won’t. It makes such a mess when wing mirror glass goes and the glass hits the car on it way. I had one of my wing mirrors hit whilst in motion (had to replace whole assembly) and the mirror coming out scratched both the drivers window (which had to be replaced) and the drivers door (damage polished out).