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I am in the process of ordering a 2019 Corvette and during a test drive noticed that it is next to impossible to see a car in the blind spot when looking back because of the wide pillars and tiny rear windows.
Have you noticed the same thing? What are you doing about it?
CHEVROLET CORVETTE 2014-2017 VIDEO INTERFACE with BUILT-IN HD SMARTPHONE MIRRORING via HDMI, i spent about 6 hours installing it, hardest part was getting the wires from passenger side to drivers side. need a lot a patience and a wife or girlfriend to help you during that part of feeding the wires.
I am very happy with it, no issues or problems. works as designed.
If you are sitting in the drivers seat and can see the side of your car while looking at the side mirrors, you are doing it wrong. Adjust the mirror correctly and you won't have a blind spot.
I agree. Just Google "blind spot mirror adjustment" and read up on it. There are also videos there on how to set your mirrors to eliminate blind spots. Most people have them set improperly. Once set correctly, you will not need spot mirrors or any other assistance.
Great solution. I set the mirror to see what might be coming up fast and the spot mirror takes care of what is in the blind spot.
The bottom of the rear window in my C7 convertible is higher off the rear of the car than it was on my C6 convertible. So low profile vehicles coming up on the drivers side are harder to see in the rear view mirror. So adjusting my side mirror to help cover that area and using the spot mirror for the blind spot works great for me. It gives me the confidence for high speed lane changes that relying on the rear view mirror does not.
Effectiveness of adjusting the mirrors is different for different seat placements, so I use the little, cheapo, stick-on "blind spot" mirrors, as well... hardly intrusive.
I too am surprised by how few drivers know how to adjust their mirrors.
There is no need to see the same thing in your side mirrors that you see in the rear view mirror- yes, a bit of “overlap” is ok. But it’s a waste of 2 mirrors to use them to see down the sides of your car. Believe me, once you get them adjusted correctly, driving almost any car or truck will be much easier-and safer. There is plenty of info out there that show you how to make the adjustments so I won’t go into that here.
...now, if I could only get my wife to understand how and why this works.
The best by far is the convertible with the top down (duh) but conversely the worst is the convertible with the top up... huge B/C pillar that you can't see through.
Still, I find that with proper mirror use and shoulder checking it's fine. There's nothing you CAN'T see.
I often see people argue against shoulder checking, that with properly adjusted mirrors you don't need to. And yet a couple of times in my 25+ years of accident free driving I've checked the mirrors, started to go, and then shoulder checked and caught something at the last second.
Only a couple of times, but those are accidents I might have otherwise had...
02-24-2018, 05:58 PM
Blind spot concern
