+1 In a way, your luck because you have a 98 and there are alot of 98-01 mirrors on e bay. I have a 97 and those are a bi...well, there hard to come across.

 

Bought one for my truck off ebay.99 Ram sport power mirror.Looked very nice,but has no center insert support like factory mirror.Long story short,couldnt look at mirror without it shaking.Was useless driving down road due to vibration.Luckily the seller refunded my money.Dodge dealer has replacement heated glass insert.Just pops in,around 35 bucks.

 

so glad you let me know that. was fixing to buy one off ebay but was worried since non oem. so just the mirror part, not the housing was $35? and it just fits in there no glue or something? did they have to special order or in stock? did you order online or in person?
thanks baby ill let him know

 

I just bought one off of ebay and it seems to be ok so far. It has a slight shake when i'm driving, but my whole truck has a slight vibration anyways so I think it is just because of that.

Suit yourself though. It is your truck. Thats just my $.02

 

hhmmm i wonder if you stuffed the inside of the housing somewhat if that substance would act as a shock absorber and the mirror wouldn't shake so bad?

 

I think if you try to stuff the housing then one of two things would probably happen:
1) The stuffing would give a bunch of resistence to the mechanical motors in there and burn them out pretty quickly.
2) Whatever you put in there would probably end up with air gaps and moisture could get stuck in there and mold and mildew and what not.

Well, these things could or couldn't happen. I just thought I would throw that out there.

 

costed me 50 bucks from the dealer. and I had to wait for 2 weeks. it was kinda cool tho bease the new mirro say heated mirr on it and works really well my other one doesnt anymore I strongly recomend getting new ones if u have hearted mirr its worth it underneath ure climat controll there will be a button says Mirror and some wavy lines

 

whoopps dint notice this was 3 pages I bet u allready got all he awsners u need lol

 

there is a loooooong stretch of salvage yards in Grand Prairie along Jefferson St. off Loop 12. one of them is a Chrysler only yard that actually takes credit cards. I think it's called Completely Chrysler. You should be able to find what you need there and IIRC correctly, they are open on SAT and SUN.

Yeah, here it is:
http://www.texasautosalvage.com/page5.htm

a '98 thru '01 mirror will work.

 

hey all you guys thanks alot havent been able to get on for about a day but we ended up buying a new mirror only~~cost $52!!! just for the glass but at least it's fixed and not that gaping hole looking thing and i can get in the truck with my short body and back out safely!
thanks all for the help its really appreciated that you took your time to help. you just don't know.
and i love that grand prarie has that chrysler yard. didn't know that and will pass on to hubby. thanks!
as i said in the other posts somewhere the seats are a problem so maybe check out them and other things along the line.
and erik....can never learn too much!
well gotta go i'll be back when we tackle other problems if possible. thanks again!