I had a stick-on blind spot mirror for 10 years, until the adhesive failed. Sticks onto the driver's door mirror. Replaced it with a another one but realise the reflective surface is coated plastic and deteriorating very quickly. Original was glass.
Does anyone know if glass ones are still made? Halfords and my local motor factor were no help.
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Loads here, dunno about glass though: goo.gl/oO3J9 (Amazon)
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Is a blind-spot mirror the section on the outer edge of the glass that has a different curvature, so approaching traffic starts off in the outer edge at one perspective, then suddenly moves into the ordinary section as it gets closer?
I replaced one of those on my Volvo 240 last year - complete stick on mirror from Halfords.
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>> Is a blind-spot mirror the section on the outer edge of the glass that has
>> a different curvature, so approaching traffic starts off in the outer edge at one perspective,
>> then suddenly moves into the ordinary section as it gets closer?
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>> I replaced one of those on my Volvo 240 last year - complete stick on
>> mirror from Halfords.
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Blind spot still exists even with the curved bit of door mirror, as I nearly took someone out last week who was hiding alongside. Moron.
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As my children pass through the driving test stage I am successively reminded that there is no such thing as a blind spot, only a driver who has failed to turn his head enough to see what the mirror can't.
My daughter's boyfriend has just failed his test because he failed to make such checks obvious enough for the examiner to realise he was looking.
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Absolutely, which is why I didn't drive into him. But he just sat there in the middle lane matching my speed - presumably at some point he'll do it to someone who doesn't look, or a LHD HGV who can't, and learn the error of his ways.
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>> Blind spot still exists even with the curved bit of door mirror, as I nearly
>> took someone out last week who was hiding alongside. Moron.
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Then Vauxhall/Opel/GM should be taken to task. My 9 year old car I have the mirrors set so I can see the back corner point of the car in the mirror at the inside edge. If I look to the right, level with the B pillar and in my mirror there is no blind spot.
Last edited by: VxFan on Sun 21 Jul 13 at 00:45
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Most people don't have their mirrors turned out enough.
You don't need to have the side of the car in view all the time. When you need to look down it when reversing you can move your head a bit.
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I agree - just adjust your mirrors outward , use your interior mirror to see what's behind you and you can eliminate the blind spot without all that looking over the shoulder stuff. You don't need to be able to check your car door handles with your door mirrors whilst driving!
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There's always a blind spot, or another road user doing something unexpected, or a moment of inattention, or simple unexplainable failure to check the right mirror at the right time. I had one of those little stick-on very convex mirrors on one of my cars for a while, but it wasn't much use.
Lorries and vans have the best mirrors but even they don't guarantee anything. Basically, especially in thick urban traffic when getting a move on, the driver has to be springing about like a squirrel inside the car more or less all the time.
At my age I don't do that as freely as I used to. My neck won't turn as far or as fast and I wear spectacles which hamper peripheral vision. Experience and cunning help of course, but getaway-driver stuff would be a real effort these days.
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It's OK AC, the state won't take away your licence as long as you're a net contributor. Stop picking up your parking tickets and you're history.
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Parking tickets?
Do you know something I don't know gmac? You aren't a bailiff surely?
If you are you know what you can do. We are talking about driving here, not parking.
'My cars are made to go, not park.' (Ettore Bugatti)
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Sun 21 Jul 13 at 00:27
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How long before someone 'hopes' that you've informed your insurance company about changing the specification of your mirror's optics? Construction and Use regs blah blah.
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>> How long before someone 'hopes' that you've informed your insurance company about changing the specification
>> of your mirror's optics? Construction and Use regs blah blah.
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Are they invisible to insurance assessors? :-)
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Blind spot mirror - Dog
