Toyota passenger side magnifying mirror alternative ?

I had a mirror (just glass) broken on a car and just had a glass place cut a piece of mirror to fit and glued it over the old mirror. Cheapest option and kept Original Mirror housing.

Willie, as Sedg says, go to a glass place, it's certainly the best option.
Cost is minimal too.
Dave

Willie,(or is that wontie) anyway i had broken driver side mirror bought replacement from auto barn could not see a damn thing out of it found there was a bloke running around doing mobile replacement mirrors. you may find them in the yellow pages.i am in brisbane it won't help you down there i s'pose.cheer's Bob.

G'Day Willie
Mirror problems eh ....... I have a wide angle on the left and right i like it because i can see everything on the left when i do need to change lanes . I have been trying to find a normal mirror that will sit along side without vibrating to much , I have a normal on the right but it shakes a lot where the 2 others I got from Autopro has good strong brackets, Sooo Willie what a leaving it and adding a normal with it or is there no room ,My advantage is i use the mirror frames from the utes and can put 2 mirrors on each '

Doug

Willie, what about adding a small wide angled mirror (supercheap)in the bottom corner of a standard mirrow ? They allow you to see if a vehicle is in your blind spot.

Hi there Willie, I'm with you there, those mirrors are a pain in the arse, I have one on my commodore passengers side and they are a barsted to judge anything, and before anybody comments I use to drive semi's for a living and I can judge very well, funny enough the prime mover I drove had full size normal mirror on passengers side with a convex mirror at the bottom for any blind spots, take away the normal mirrors on any truck and see how many things the truckies would reverse into. These convex mirrors are more of a danger then the normal mirrors.My hilux is an old model so only have the normal type on the passengers side and have no problems seeing or changing lanes with the canopy on and a full load where as I cant use the rear vision mirror in the cab.Go for it Willie, hope you can get one from where one of the people have said above. Regards Steve M

Willie

I can't get used to them and reckon they are safety hazards.

On the other hand I've not had much problem with a similar wide angle mirror on the passenger side of the wife's Falcon. Do the LC ones 'compress' more?

I would prefer to have normal glass in both mirrors with a wide angle insert if needed.

Please keep us informed about how you get on.

EV700

You have three choices

a. Curved Mirror only - some people have trouble judging the distance to the vehicle in the left lane.

b. Flat mirror - there's a big bang when people change lanes because they didn't see the vehicle in the next lane because of its blind spot of flat mirrors (that's why curved mirrors are used today)

c. Flat mirror with curved mirror add-on. You can judge distance and not have a blind spot.

Mike

Willie,

You have opened a can on worms here.

Bloody ADR regulations are the culprits.

I also agree that the inability to judge distances, (like you can with the right hand mirror), represents a greater safety hazard, than a more "restricted" view.

If people set the left mirror up to view the blind spot, rather than along the side of the vehicle, there is much less chance of not seeing the car "next to you".

Like others, I have looked at a way of ridding myself of the "useless" mirror I have on the left side at present. Some interesting solutions have been put forward to consider.