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Date:         Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:09:57 -0800
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Blind Spot Mirrors.....Where do you put yours?
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Tony Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote: > I have always > placed blind spot mirrors on my vehicles and I usually place them on the > lower-outer corner of them. > > What says the list? Is there a different placement for them? and if so is > there a logic behind this?

Logically, the best place is indeed right there at the outer corners. the farther out you can get them, the more they show you the road next to you and the less they show you the side of your van. For years at work I drove a monstrous windowless Dodge service van with no rear view mirror using nothing but a 4-inch stick-on convex mirror on each side . Bigger is definitely better. The stick on mirrors ate up about 75% of the usable flat mirror space, but once my brain adjusted to those convex mirrors, I never looked in the flat mirrors again.

Currently I have a small stick on on each side of my Vanagon and a wide-angle rear view camera. What I want now is a second camera on the front bumper facing left so I can nose out of a blind intersection and see if traffic is coming, and also see the front bumper for optimum parallel parking efficiency.

-- John Bange '90 Vanagon - "Lastwagen" '90 Vanagon GL - "Wiesel"


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