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.... I tore it off on a tree.
Reversing the Land Rover and trailer into the woods I failed to notice the branch intent on catching the unwary.
I was left with the mirror dangling from two wires. Only then did I twig.
Fortunately there's a Land Rover breaker in Thornton, I nipped over this afternoon. He could do me a replacement for £20, if he had one. The last one he had was sans glass. No trouble as I hadnt broken mine. So for the princely sum of £10 he even fitted it for me.
Land Rover ownership made me smile again.
I didnt know or realise my nissan primera had them till a week before i scrapped it !!.... only had the car 4 yrs !
I had a £250 Passat that was knackered and old, and I had it a long time til I noticed the raindrops drying off the mirrors. They were activated by the rear heated window switch.
Friend of mine kept getting annoyed at the boxy lump in her boot - she thought it was the fuse box. It was only when she traded it in that she found out it was a 10-disc CD multichanger.
Wow, I knew about heated door mirrors, but heated wing mirrors? Kind of retro techno, interesting.
Didn't have heated mirrors on my S2 SWB.
Didn't have a heater neithers 😆
I just worked out the saab has them this winter when I saw steam coming off them - we've had it 5 years...
Found out that as well as voice controlled hands free my car also has voice controlled everything! "Climate-28 Celsius " "windows-defrost", its no end of fun.
Wow, I knew about heated door mirrors, but heated wing mirrors? Kind of retro techno, interesting.
I grew up in an age where wing mirrors werent compulsory, nor seat belts. The notion of a wireless in a car was outlandish.
...and front bumpers had a funny shaped hole for the starting handle 🙂
My brother had owned his Golf for almost 2 years & was bleating about the windscreen taking ages to clear. I asked why he never used the air-con. He reckoned his car didn't have it. We went out to the car to have a look & even when I pointed out the button with A/C on it he wouldn't believe it was air con...
Had to start the car up & put it on to prove it to him. Idiot.
we used to have the radio sitting on the rear parcel shelf, if we turned a corner it was my job to rotate it 90 degrees so it still got a signal.
MW of course, none of that new fangled VHF witchcraft.
I found another 12v socket in mine the other day, had it less than a year though so there must be loads of stuff I've not found yet.
Had a freelander for eight years but only found out it had a CD multichanger last year when i pressed a button and a CD popped out then pressed another and another one came out WTF!!
Only started to use the SD card slot on the radio in my last Touran a month before selling it, so much easier than wires dangling all over the place from my phone.
I've adopted Bluetooth very quickly in the new car though, to the extent I went out and bought an aftermarket Bluetooth equipped radio for the other car.
Only realised my mk3 golf had programable wipe interval after 5 years. Had complained that you couldn't adjust interval for about 5 years.