Tired of the blindspot?

[luuser75]

Originally Posted by tinma

does anyone have experience with 300mm broadway mirror (not convex) if it will hit the sun visors?

I have one and it doesn't hit the sun visors

[bkblitzed]

Originally Posted by dro

i do the same but with frs its hard on the left. what do u do for the left?

on the right its hard but im getting used to it.

driver side is nearly impossible but doable, just gotta move your head around. The passenger side though is easy to see unless someone is riding passenger with the seat back lol. There's no good solution i guess.

[deange]

Originally Posted by ShoGun

heres the trick to set them up perfectly. (learned this from an Ex surprisingly):

-Lean all the way to the Left to where your head is almost touching the drivers side window
-Adjust the Left mirror so that the edge of your car is barely in view
-Lean all the way to the right while still in your seat (so your body is leaning over the cup holders)
-Adjust your side mirror so that the edge of the right side of your car is barely in view.

All set! now practice getting used to using your rearview, sides and looking out your window to be aware of your surroundings.

This... minus the Ex part. It may make the mirrors less usefull for backing into a spot but that's why I added a backup camera. I have a lot less of a blind spot in this little car than I do in my Tundra.

[nalc]

Originally Posted by deange

This... minus the Ex part. It may make the mirrors less usefull for backing into a spot but that's why I added a backup camera. I have a lot less of a blind spot in this little car than I do in my Tundra.

Sounds overcomplicated. I just get into a position where there's something interesting behind me that isn't overly repetitive (it's real hard to do on like a concrete wall unless there's a distinguishing feature), aim the center mirror, then aim the side mirrors so that they pick up right where the center leaves off. That gets it 90% of the way, and then I can fine-tune it a bit on the road.

I drive a ton of rental cars and it takes me half a minute to do without having to lean around like a goofball.

[dro]

Originally Posted by bkblitzed

driver side is nearly impossible but doable, just gotta move your head around. The passenger side though is easy to see unless someone is riding passenger with the seat back lol. There's no good solution i guess.

im just gonna have to get the small round mirrors even though look tacky

safety > tacky

i mean u cant really look tacky in this car

[CTB727]

Problem solved. (as originally posted by Gaiakai)

[Fett4Real]

^^^ in driving school, 16 years ago I learned this, if you can see your car in your sideview your doing it wrong

[Tromatic]

How hard is a head-check? Maybe as a motorcyclist I just assume everyone does it. Wait, as a motorcyclist I know nobody does it.

[Fett4Real]

through what the 3" 1/4 window? Its called a BLIND spot for a reason

[R3d]

Originally Posted by Gaiakai

I just started doing this a week after I got my car: http://www.caranddriver.com/features...id-blind-spots

It works, too. Saved me a couple of times already. Maybe not as effective as that, but it's free (and legal) lol

This is exactly what you need to do, I have been doing it for 3 years now on everything I drive ( pick up, dad`s jeep, mom`s mini, my 2 civic`s my new fr-s.... and so forth). I learned to use that at racing school. The teachers argument was you need to know whos next to you while racing around a track but dont have time to ``look`` with your whole head, you need to know with your eyes all that is around you.

My whole family laughs at me when they see how I have my mirrors ( when they borrow one of my cars for example) and I keep telling em, dont worry about it, just keep making sure that rest of your car is still keeping up that's whats really important XD!

When I set them all I really do is I put them in a way for when the car leaves my rear view mirror it is now in one of the sides and when it leaves the side mirror its next to me.

Word of caution! the reason this is not taught at driving school is that its possible, if your mirrors aren't perfect, that a bike could hide in the very small blind spot that actually still exist.

[R3d]

Originally Posted by deange

This... minus the Ex part. It may make the mirrors less usefull for backing into a spot but that's why I added a backup camera. I have a lot less of a blind spot in this little car than I do in my Tundra.

automatic mirrors are easy to switch out on the fly XD I just move em!

[R3d]

Originally Posted by ShoGun

heres the trick to set them up perfectly. (learned this from an Ex surprisingly):

-Lean all the way to the Left to where your head is almost touching the drivers side window
-Adjust the Left mirror so that the edge of your car is barely in view
-Lean all the way to the right while still in your seat (so your body is leaning over the cup holders)
-Adjust your side mirror so that the edge of the right side of your car is barely in view.

All set! now practice getting used to using your rearview, sides and looking out your window to be aware of your surroundings.

gonna try this, I move my mirrors a lot ( always changing seating position plus other drivers have access to my cars or me to theirs lol ) I wish I had a way this fast of setting up XD!

[CTB727]

Originally Posted by Fett4Real

^^^ in driving school, 16 years ago I learned this, if you can see your car in your sideview your doing it wrong

What's terrible is that now they're teaching just the opposite. When I was in driver's ed 4 years ago, my teacher was telling us that you're supposed to see the door handle or something stupid like that. Needless to say, he didn't like being told that he was wrong

[IgnitionGundam]

Originally Posted by Hix

They are not legal but I have put them on pretty much every car I have ever owned. They have knockoffs on ebay right now btw for 100 buckaroos

Can't seem to find them? little help? ahha