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Experimental investigations on an isolated vehicle side mirror model are performed in a low turbulence wind tunnel aiming at the identification of the acoustic source mechanism leading to tonal noise emission. A combination of acoustic measurements and Particle Image Velocimetry shows that the discrete frequency noise can be related to the presence of a laminar boundary layer separation extending up to the trailing edge on the mirror's side surface and upper side. In the vicinity of the trailing edge, the shear layer develops into a vortical structure, which impinges on the trailing edge. By utilization of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition on the ensembles of instantaneous velocity fields and application of a phase sorting method, the length scales of the vortical structures could be extracted and related to the acoustic radiation. Order of magnitude analyses show parallels to the acoustic feedback mechanism known from the NACA 0012 airfoil.

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