[s-cars] Side Mirror Glass Replacement

[Mike Sylvester]

The Euro driver's mirror I have has the split and is convex like the
passengers side.
So "objects are closer than they appear", although it doesn't have that
printed on it.
They are also tinted.


Mike

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Side Mirror Glass Replacement
> From: John Cunningham <jc at j2c3.com>
> Date: Wed, March 05, 2014 11:07 am
> To: Douglas Fifield <douglas.fifield at gmail.com>,  Martin Kozaczek
> <mkozaczek at gmail.com>
> Cc: s-car-list <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> 
> 
> 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)
> 
> On 3/5/2014 10:44, Douglas Fifield wrote:
> > I replaced mine with Euro versions sourced out of Britain. The drivers side
> > has a "split" mirror with the far left of the mirror at a different angle,
> > showing more of the blind spot.  A nice modification.
> >
> > D.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Martin Kozaczek <mkozaczek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I might have one, it's heated and auto dimming though.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Paul Luevano <paul at clarity.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> List-
> >>>
> >>>          Forgive me if this has been covered in the past, but my drivers
> >>> side mirror, and to a lesser extent the passengers side mirror, are
> >>> starting to de-laminate, for lack of a better term.
> >>>
> >>>          Is the dealer the best source for new, heated, glass?  Are they
> >>> still available? As I know a lot of parts for this care are becoming NLA.
> >>>
> >>>          If the stock glass lasted 20 years, I'd like to stick to OEM and
> >>> just plan on another 20 years.
> >>>
> >>>          Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Paul Luevano
> >>> Wayland MA
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