Patent ID: 8328373

Claim:
A vehicle side mirror; comprising: a mirror body; a mirror base fastened to a body panel; and a mirror housing, which houses the mirror body and is supported by the mirror base, the mirror housing, including: a housing body, which houses the mirror body on a back side of a vehicle, is attached to the mirror base, and has an attachment opening; a cover member, which is separable from the housing body and is mounted on an end portion of the attachment opening of the housing body so as to cover a front face of the housing body; a lattice-shaped housing reinforcement portion, which is provided to an inside of the attachment opening of the housing body and is mounted with a predetermined mechanism to be housed in a housing space inside the mirror housing; and a plane-shaped reinforcement plate, which is detachably mounted at a side opposite to a side mounted with the predetermined mechanism of the housing reinforcement portion before the cover member is mounted on the housing body, the plane-shaped reinforcement plate positioned between the lattice-shaped housing reinforcement portion and the cover member.