[Vwdiesel] Rabbit pickup side view mirrors

Roger Brown r.c.brown at ieee.org
Wed Apr 26 14:28:50 EDT 2006


Evan O'Brien wrote:
> I don't know about any of you, but I feel as though the side view mirrors on 
> my rabbit pickup were factory mounted in the most awkward way. It feels as 
> though I would have much better ability to make good use of them if they 
> were mounted forward about a foot. Has anyone done this or replaced their 
> mirrors with any sort of luck? I have seen a couple of customized rabbits 
> online with mirrors mounted right in the corner by the vent window (mine are 
> fixed panes of glass & don't open, so I don't care about blocking the vent 
> window) but I have no idea how/what they did the modification.

I installed some larger mirrors on my old '81:
	http://www.4crawler.com/Diesel/CheapTricks/Mirrors.shtml

I still have the mirrors and mounting hardware that I saved off of it if interested.
I was going to put them on my '82, but it had the factory remotely operated mirrors on it 
and they seemed to work fine.

-- 
    Roger




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