Mirrors - novel useage

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Mon 22 Feb 2010 11:43
Mirrors - novel useage - Mapmaker
Somebody posted the other day about pushing the wing mirrors out far further than normal. There's no longer a forum search (or if there is I cannot find it), and I got bored wading through pages with only 20 threads on them. So a new thread, sorry.

Anyway, I tried this at the weekend.

1. What happens when the rear side windows mist up?

2. You lose a blind spot that you can check by looking over your shoulder, and replace it with a blind spot that is by the rear wing, plenty large enough to hide a cyclist, and requiring a head on a swivel mount to check. See diagram.

www.use.com/0658e8e05d733682939d

3. My rear view mirror doesn't give me any view through the rear side windows anyway, so there's only really that which shows up through the back window.

4. I already set my mirrors so as not to show any of the paint on the car, but only just.

5. Maybe it's because I drive an estate car. Maybe it's because I'm used to using my wing mirrors more than the average car driver, having spent a lot of time driving vans with no rear view.

Anyway, downright dangerous.
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Mon 22 Feb 2010 12:07
Mirrors - novel useage - Devolution
Very valid point. I tend to find my rear windows don't mist, but that's as I rarely have backseat passengers. In the new car it has vents in the centre pillars which could help negate that anyway. Plus I'm quite meticulous and when I defrost and scrape I do all round the car.

Having quite large mirrors I set them the same as you, so they are just off the car. But I also have those tiny circular blindspot mirrors which I bought and fitted as extra. They are great for seeing that particular blindspot if necessary, plus I can see each rear tyre in them, so no need to adjust the mirrors at all when parallel parking in a tight spot and needing to get close to the kerb.
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Mon 15 Mar 2010 18:39
Mirrors - novel useage - Glaikit Wee Scunner {P}

I don't see that the diagram indicates any view through the rear side windows?

I like my door mirrors to give a view just off the sides. Maybe when on the RHS abroad I'll tweak the NS mirror out a bit.

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Mon 15 Mar 2010 20:00
Mirrors - novel useage - Manatee

>> There's no longer a forum search (or if there is I cannot find it), and I got bored wading through pages with only 20 threads on them. So a new thread, sorry.

I see search boxes above the index, and have 50+ threads visile when logged in.

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Tue 16 Mar 2010 09:47
Mirrors - novel useage - Ben 10

I gave this a go after 26 years of having them give me a view of the sides of the car. I have to admit it works. Give it a try. blindspot.docx (184 kb);

Edited by Cpt. Flack on 16/03/2010 at 09:50

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