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Old 11-04-2015, 05:06 PM   #1
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I got the following several years ago, and I was reading a post on the V8 site that reminded me of this mirror adjusting tip. I don't know who wrote it, but I use it on my 40 and my 06 Charger. It works good for me. Maybe it might save someone from a wreck.
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Some of the most serious preventable accidents occur because of blind
spots while driving! Now there is a remarkable simple solution
discovered by an engineer named George Platter. He presented his
method at the prestigious Society of Automotive Engineers.

The National Safety Council tested his theory and discovered, to their
amazement, that it works! The method has been fully endorsed by the
National Safety Council as described in their September/October issue
of Traffic Safety. Here's how it works.

First, forget how we learned to adjust our outside mirrors by
plopping behind the steering wheel and turning the mirrors so that we
just saw the side of our car looking back at us in the mirrors.

Instead, adjust the driver's side mirror by resting your head against
the driver's side window and then turning the mirror so that you just
see the side of your car.

Once this is set, move to the center of the vehicle and turn the
passenger side mirror so that you can just see the side of your car
from the center of the vehicle.

That's it. You won't see your own car in either mirror, yet what you will
see is far better. Cars behind you show up as usual in the inside rear-view
mirror above the dash, but the instant the car leaves your field of vision from
the rear-view mirror the outside mirror picks it up. No blind spot; no
delays; no wondering where that car about to pass you has disappeared
to, and no waiting a few seconds for the car that you just saw in your
rear-view mirror to show up in your outside mirrors.

All three mirrors work in harmony with one another, and the blind spot has
been eliminated!
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Old 11-05-2015, 11:56 AM   #2
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Default Re: Mirror Adjustment

That's the way I adjust mine, but the wife keeps changing it. LOL
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Old 11-05-2015, 01:42 PM   #3
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Default Re: Mirror Adjustment

Rather than go thru all the gyrations I, while seated in the driving position just adjust both so that I can't see the side of the car.
And then there are some Fords with passenger side cowl mount mirrors that can't be seen from the drivers seat.
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Old 11-07-2015, 05:35 PM   #4
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That's the way I adjust mine, but the wife keeps changing it. LOL
My wife does the same thing. LOL
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