GhiaVair
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Location: Crown Point IN
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 Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 2:28 am Post subject: 62 Bug Sedan: Oversized Rear View Mirror |
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Is there an oversized direct fit replacement rear view mirror for 62 Bug sedan?
Forgive me I'm a ( Corvair Person) new Bug owner & not comfortable with the limited site inherent in these bugs.
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glutamodo 
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 4:23 am Post subject: Re: 62 Bug Sedan: Oversized Rear View Mirror |
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You posted photos of the outside of the car, so do you mean the door mirror, or do you mean the one inside?
The outside mirror, there are some pear shaped ones that are bit larger than the originals, but not by much and they aren't marketed as oversize. I know I noticed it when I put one such on my Baja bug many years ago, but what I mostly noticed was how it fit my hand when I went to adjust it.
As for inside, I changed to accessory day-night mirrors at one point, ones that really worked. I don't know if you can even get those any more, I have a friend who got one as well and from I recall his didn't seem to work with a real internal alternate angle when you would flip the lever.
Quoting myself from 10 years ago here:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=639021&
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Yeah, good point on that, that's what I was talking about at the end of my previous post. 60ragtop bought one and told me he noticed the same thing. The ones I bought via theSamba Classifieds (I don't remember the seller, this was several years ago), a 65-67 and a 60-64 style, were true day/night mirrors. And the funny thing, mine have two night settings, of a sort. While it's not a hard click-stop, as you move it to the night setting, you notice two sets of offset images (provided you have light sources behind you) getting progressively darker. And you can leave the lever in the middle for that first image. I don't have any images handy that show this, but I do have this one where you can see this one is a true day/night mirror - you can see the darkened, offset image of the pavement striping at the top:
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As you can see in that image, the size of the mirror was just slightly bigger than stock, but not by much,
Now, for a time before that, and when I was only driving my two Bugs (62 Ragtop and 61 body Baja) I bought some German accessory high visibility mirrors that just slipped on over the stock mirror. These were big, slightly tinted with a bit of a fish-eye effect. I'm sure I've posted about it at some point...
Okay, here... I thought I had a photo of the box it came in but I'm not seeing it right now. I'll have to look for it, I think I still have it somewhere. It was a German accessory made by Hagus, an OEM supplier, but I don't know if they ever sold these through VW.
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To cure that I fitted an aftermarket (wider) mirror 'Panorama Spiegel' that fixes over the original mirror by means of 2 elastic loops and gives a wider field of rear vision.
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Sounds interesting. Post a pic if you can. |
There's one in my Gallery:
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Edit: I was able to find it pretty easily and took some more photos of it.
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