I've seen other cars that have directional arrows in the outside door mirrors...can we install these in our vets ?
If so, where can I find such a kit and for those who have already done the upgrade, is it difficult?
Thankx.

 

Muth Mirror make these for the C5. I installed mine over a year ago. They recommend professional installation, but I did the whole job myself. First side took me about 4 hours - other side about 3 hours. Very nice upgrade, but you will sacrifice the "heated" mirror feature (unless they have come up with a new version).

All I remember is that I had just about every tool I own on the garage floor by the time I was done, but I did it right (more steps than what they outlined). They are a great safety feature and look cool too! Muth also had great phone support.

 

http://www.c5creations.com/c5.php

 

Thankx

 

I meant to say you lose the auto-light-dimming feature with those mirrors - not the heated feature. The heated feature is an option.

 

Here ya go

http://www.pfyc.com/pc/VT1055/VTEXT/...+Corvette.html

 

C5 Creations are nice...I would like some...

 

They're very cool, but losing the auto dim feature on the mirror would be a deal breaker for me.

 

Uhh... I never heard of autodimming exterior mirrors. And the heated mirror is standard (in 2000 it was) and is part of the rear defog.

 

SAY WHAT??????????????/

Whats auto dimming about the door mirrors. Had one off . Has heating element but dont see anything else. AM I MISSING SOMETHING?

 

You would if you had an '01 or newer with the Electrochromatic mirrors option. Both my interior and driver's side door mirror dim automatically. The passenger side door mirror does not.

 

Exactly. Mine is an 2001 and did have auto-dim Driver's outside mirror. It did not matter to me because I do not adjust my outside mirrors to were they see a car directly behind without moving my head from normal position.

 

I installed the Muth Mirrors on my FRC. It wasn't a hard job, just takes a little time.

 

It wouldn't matter to me if I always stayed in the fast lane, either, but that's a great way to attract a ticket. Upcoming traffic passing on the left with enough drivers that have bright headlights improperly aimed (4x4's usually) are reason enough that I wouldn't be willing to give up the dimming feature for another, even though the arrows really are pretty trick.

 

Of course it is always open to debate, but as a computer graphic designer, a few years ago one of my larget clients approached me to design and print several thousand outside-rearview-mirror safety posters to be distributed in all their locations worldwide (and they have many massive custom-built trucks that they self-insure for millions each on the road everyday and safety is a high priority).Their safety department had determined that most drivers do not adjust their outside rearview mirrors properly.

To paraphrase: Their instruction to all employees was to lean your head comfortably over to the right and then adjust the right outside mirror until you can just barely see part of your own vehicle in the left edge of the mirror. Then do the same thing for the left mirror leaning your head slightly to the left. This took some serious getting used to for me, but it does several things once you brain gets used to it: (1) it all but eliminates the blind spots since when your head is in normal position they are aimed right at the blind spot, (2) you do not usually need to see the sides of yor car in the outside mirrors as those areas are covered by the inside rearview mirror so you are narrowing your cone-of-vision, (3) This eliminates 90% of the headlight glare from outside mirrors since they only see cars as they pass you or vice-versa in most cases (and even then the light is not directly reflecting into your eyes). You will notice by adjusting mirrors in this manner that as soon as the headlights from a vehicle leave your rearview mirror, they appear in one of the side mirrors (and not before). This gives you a much wider field of vision as it eliminates redundancy.

Since this addresses a serious safety issue, I cannot personally recommend this proceedure to anyone - that is for each individual to evaluate. It is however how I have done my adjustments for the last 10 years. In most cases it will be somewhat disorienting at first if you are not used to it, but there is a big payoff in wider field of view from a 3-mirror arrangement set up in this manner and one mirror will always give you feedback as to cars located behind and to the side of you.

 

I purchased a set of these mirrors about two years ago in a group purchase for about $175. Everywhere I've taken them to for install wants to charge damn near $200. So they've been sitting collecting dust. I definitely want them on but I'm having some difficulty overcoming the $200.

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