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Nope, never... but i live in a close with no cars passing by me 🙂
Auto fold when locked. Also passenger side mirror dips when reversing. Hate driving my wifes' car now as hers doesn't do it.
I have no problem with folding mirrors as an idea, but why do they have to be so noisy? The other halves latest car is a 1 litre petrol engine and is virtually silent at tickover, however when she pulls up the electric handbrake wheezes noisily on, then the mirrors grind into place - it's like a locomotive parking up!
Surprising amount of people that don’t and then probably moan that their mirrors get hit.
You shouldn't have to fold your mirrors in - leaving them out isn't an invite to have them smashed off, either deliberately or accidentally.
How many of you mirror closers forget to unfold when driving? I see a fair few people driving with mirrors closed, which is a worry lack of awareness of the driver.
I did have a car with wing mirrors a long time ago
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Funny that we still call them that.
I don't bother usually, unless it's particularly narrow. On the car I have now it probably only gains about an inch anyway.
Or park facing the flow of traffic
... illegally.
scintillating subject but no
I hate to be a car geek party pooper, but the Maclaren F1 used wing mirrors from a VW Corrado,
So that story seems a little unlikely
As a Corrado owner, that seems completely believable... they'll be a special, one-off design fabricated by hand from unicorn horn by Karmann. They will have been obsolete for the last ten years except for one remaining L/H-drive mirror held by VW Classic Parts somewhere in Germany, which won't fit R/H-drive cars and is priced at £2,500 anyway.
As we live on a road which is apparently a rat-run for the partially sighted and have lost three mirrors between us in two years, I not only fold my mirror in, but I have also invested in the incredibly hard to locate by googling [url=
which has to be the worst marketed product in history.
It took me two years after seeing one in use to find out what it actually was, viz, a red plastic pointer thing that's intended to encourage drivers to leave a little more room when passing.
illegally
Really? Well you learn something everyday!
Car just been pranged again coincidentally (see my new exciting thread). But I saw them this time so he had to stop.
Yeah. It's against the law to park facing traffic during the hours of darkness. Fine during the day. IIRC anyway.