Re: Side mirrors' obscure feature?

[Mark Turczyn <mturczyn@hst.nasa.gov>]

At 12:17 AM -0400 5/14/99, Igor Kessel wrote:
>Folks,
>I scrutinised the vol.3 Bentley trying to find out if the side mirrors
>of a '92-'94 100/S4 were electrically identical to the side mirrors of a
>'95-'97 A6/S6. They are not.
>
>The later cars have not two but three motors in each mirror, the third
>one being for some "mirror fold-in adjustment".
>
>I pushed the mirrors in on my S6 and did not hear any gears crunching.
>Does anyone know what purpose do those third motors serve?
>
>I'd like to buy a set of mirrors from a wrecked pearl white (L0B9 paint
>code) '92-'94 100/S4 for obvious reasons.
>
>--
>Igor Kessel
>Back to two turbo quattros.

Igor-

On my S6 I can but the mirror control button in a position that will cause
the right mirror to tilt down when in reverse.  This helps when you are
backing into a parking space and want to see how close you are to the curb.
Pretty neat-use it all of the time so I do not scar my wheels.
Mark Turczyn