Smaller and more agile mirror replacement?

[艾洛]

I'm not a great photoshopper so let me just put that out there for now.

I personally feel that the oem mirrors are too large for such an agile and nimble car. It doesn't fit the personality of what this car represents.

There is the APR mirror replacement but I personally think as a DD, it looks much too fragile and I'd be worried some loser will walk by and yank at it to test it's durability. I believe they're great for a track-oriented 86.


from ft86speedfactory

So that brings me to what I thought suits the vehicle:



Let me know your thoughts.

[Burrcold]

They look like little donkey ears.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Burrcold

They look like little donkey ears.

ROFL! But they're soooo cute!

[BrianFRS]

Has anyone ever seen an FR-S with fender mounted mirrors?
Similar to 70's JDM style.

I think it would look great on the FR-S, the body lines are so similar to 280z/240z/etc.

Photo for reference

[fang_gt86]

Originally Posted by BrianFRS

Has anyone ever seen an FR-S with fender mounted mirrors?
Similar to 70's JDM style.

I think it would look great on the FR-S, the body lines are so similar to 280z/240z/etc.

Photo for reference

[BrianFRS]

Originally Posted by fang_gt86

OMG, I'm definitely doing this now!!

[Ultramaroon]

That looks fucking tits!

[Ultramaroon]

For the record, @艾洛, I like your idea.

[艾洛]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

For the record, @艾洛, I like your idea.

Thanks, I've asked speedhunters' about their fender mirrors and they have gotten back to me. They will be having a write up on them and anticipating it.

The mirrors I threw on were off an s2000 by spoon.


If I end up trying to fabricate my own, I will have some lee-way in making the base height smaller depending on the mounting position.

[Mini Cooper S]

Does anyone have experience with fender mirrors? It looks beautiful but how does it affect visibility? Why are mirrors at their current location instead of the fenders?

[艾洛]

Originally Posted by Mini Cooper S

Does anyone have experience with fender mirrors? It looks beautiful but how does it affect visibility? Why are mirrors at their current location instead of the fenders?

I don't have any experience with fender mirrors, but as exquisite as they are... I think you'll end up shoulder checking > using them.

Driver side mirrors are flat while the passenger is convex. The reason the passenger side is convex is due to the distance the passenger mirror is from the driver. Using a fender mirror, this increases the distance to the driver. Thus resulting in a protruding convex mirror for the passenger fender if you wanted to acquire the same amount of view you do from your OEM ones. This ends up being impractical because the fender mirrors are quite small resulting in too many small objects and no driver has time to just find waldo in their mirror. Therefore to reduce the small objects, you lessen the curvature of the convex mirror at the cost of having less reflection

[edeekeos]

O..M..G that SpeedHunters car. Stared at that pic for like 5 mins..

[kato1337]

I got the craftsquare mirrors, not exactly cheap. But looks a lot better than the stock ones! They work great to can see where your blind spot would be on on your stock mirrors.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Mini Cooper S

Does anyone have experience with fender mirrors? It looks beautiful but how does it affect visibility? Why are mirrors at their current location instead of the fenders?

Because it's further forward, it can cover more of the real estate directly beside the car and reduce the blind spot next to the rear fender. Imagine if there were a car right next to you that you couldn't see. You move the mirror forward, and then you can see him.

But because it's further forward, it also reduces the angle of view and contributes to the blind spot further away from the car, perhaps in the next lane over. Go to your bathroom mirror and back up. Then step forward and see how much more angle of view you have into the bathroom behind you when you're closer. That same thing happens with the closer mirror on your car. You can correct for it in the fender mirror by making it more convex to adjust for a wider field of view. But then, making mirrors convex can distort the image and the perception of distance, so you just trade one set of problems for another.

There's no real advantage to fender mirrors. They work okay if you're always driving around on narrow two-lane roads, but they're probably a disadvantage in the US where we have big wide multi-lane roads.