[s-cars] Side Mirror Glass Replacement

[Paul Luevano]

John Cunningham wrote:
> Just a warning for others to watch out for UK RHD glass.  You do say 
> 'sourced' and 'Euro' so I assume you got LHD, and of course with a "Nemo 
> mirror" car you can't screw it up, but you have to be careful sourcing 
> glass from the UK - obv. with symmetrical mirror cars getting 
> wrong-side-drive is bad as the magnifying mirror will be on the wrong side.
> 
> The 'split' is called 'aspherical' and is a Euro thing and agreed it is 
> the best. I have it on the M5 mirrors on my 540 and it eliminated a 
> brutal and dangerous blind spot (duh naturally because the mirrors were 
> designed in Europe for that glass and when they car came to USA it got 
> shitty DOT mirrors that were dangerous but oh no DOT is afraid we'll be 
> confused by actually having better mirrors and lights so we better go 
> with the 1950's technology and better put that stupid warning on the 
> right hand mirror too!!!! /hateDOTstandardsrant)

	Thanks for all the replies and suggestions.  I went the Ebay route at 
the suggestion of another lister:

http://stores.ebay.com/auto-spares4you/100-A6-C4-1992-1997-/_i.html?_fsub=1789276013&_sid=1018331873&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322

	I figure for $40, even if no good, worth the try.

	May look for Euro mirrors next time I'm over the pond!

Paul Luevano
Wayland MA