Date:         Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:09:57 -0800
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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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.


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