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Originally Posted by Fifty150hs
If you set your mirrors properly you don't need to spend the money.
Lean over with your head by the drivers window. Adjust the mirror so you can just see the door handles in the edge of the mirror.
Lean over to the center of the car and adjust your passenger mirror so you can just see the door handles in the edge of the mirror.
If you do this you will find that as a vehicle in an adjacent lane leaves your rear view mirror it appears in one of your side view mirrors.
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It is not possible to adjust the US driver's mirror to cover what an aspherical mirror can cover. The X5 mirror is large enough that you can adjust it so that it's not actively unsafe (unlike, say, the E36 M3, where the US driver's mirror is too small to do much of anything), but it still kind of sucks.
And the mirror glass is cheap as long as you don't want auto-dimming.