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Clavurion 02-24-2020 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by guntherrex (Post 1178440)
i looked at replacement parts but they seem rather difficult to find. I don't really care either way, I would rather disable the reverse mirror adjustment. Is there a way to do that?

Put the mirror adjustment selector switch to other position and mirror dip on reverse is not active.

guntherrex 02-24-2020 10:20 AM

oh that easy? :D

Clavurion 02-24-2020 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by guntherrex (Post 1178450)
oh that easy? :D

Sometimes it could be rewarding to read the owner's manual. ;)

guntherrex 02-25-2020 03:08 AM

Hehe you could be on to something there ;)

andrewwynn 02-25-2020 01:37 PM

I find the reverse mirror dip useless. It points at what you just ran over vs what you could run over.

About 1/3 of the time I parallel park it's on the driver side so I set my 3 rd seat memory to dip both mirrors about half the angle down that BMW enginerds use and just tap 3 to aim both sides down when parallel parking. I leave the mirror switch on passenger side and it never auto dips.

Henrym3 02-25-2020 01:50 PM

andrewwynn, you must have far to much spare thinking time, what an excellent idea, the standard dip has crap positioning.


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andrewwynn 02-26-2020 03:31 AM

Didn't take more than a minute. I discovered pretty quickly the useless dip went away when I put the switch to passenger side, then I realized only two drivers use my car so I have a spare seat memory. It was immediately obvious to do both mirrors.

It doesn't hurt that I have euro style panoramic mirrors with zero blind spot

timmyc 03-10-2020 12:24 PM

Thanks for your time. Did mine the other day. Surprised at how smooth the actuation is now!


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