Minimising Blindspots: The Available Options!?!

[Mr. Unpopular]

How hard is it to find the factory extended mirrors?
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[RatCamper]

To be honest I think the bays have less blind spots than a lot of modern cars. The Fairlane I drive is loaded with them. It is very common to see them with front quarter panel damage. The A pillars are thick enough and just the right position and angle to totally block out a car travelling at the same speed on an intersecting road. It's also pretty hard to see near the C and D pillars.

In my bay the only visibility issue I have is with reversing. My GPS has a plug for a reversing camera but how it works is a mystery. If I can solve that, it's getting a camera somewhere.
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[chazz79]

I bought the ugly vanagon style mirrors that bus depot sells. They won't win any style pints but they are way more functional than stock.
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[NASkeet]

[NASkeet]

[Abscate]

Countdown to Robbie telling you all to tilt your mirrors to the magic angle of 52+ epsilon degrees to eliminate blind spots...or vision-impaired spots
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[notchboy]

[alman72]

[kooper271]

According to google translate they ship worldwide.

[NASkeet]

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=327517

These are right-hand & left-hand, Ford Transit Connect, factory-fitted, over-and-under, twin-lens door mirrors, which I think could possibly be adapted, for use on the 1968~79 VW Type 2 and similar post-1995 Brazilian built buses. The black, plastic mirror housing, is approximately 210 mm tall x 140 mm wide, so it's not much larger than the stock 1968~79 VW Type 2 mirror.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Transit_Connect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Transit_Connect#2009_update

I envisage trimming the stock Ford mirror mounting and making an intermediate, GRP moulded adapter, with M16 x 1•5 mm bolt, to fix it to the moulded body section, just below the bottom of the cab window.

The top mirror lens, is the normal rear-view driving mirror, which is electrically adjustable, by means of the usual electric servo motors and four-way switch.

The bottom mirror lens, is a fixed, highly convex, blindspot mirror, which enables one to see vehicles in the rear-quarter blindspot, such as those associated with freeway on-ramps (i.e. motorway slip-roads), or simply overtaking on the freeway, one-way street or roundabout, of which there are numerous in Great Britain.
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Regards.

Nigel A. Skeet

Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.

Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper

Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)

http://www.vwt2oc.net

[rottenkid]

I don't have blind spots with my mirrors.

[airschooled]

[rottenkid]

I have not had a reason to parrellel park my bus. They sure do help when your driving on the 401 when going through Toronto.

[airschooled]

[NASkeet]

In Great Britain & Europe, we need to be able to able to parallel park, reverse park, diagonal park and park in all conceivable ways possible! Hence, all around visibility is essential, especially if one wants to avoid reversing into things like bollards, barriers and low walls.

Car parking spaces in car parks (parking lots in USA parlance!?!) are both narrow and short, so one needs to be competent and accurate in one's parking, to avoid overlapping into adjacent vacant parking spaces or colliding with parked cars. They same is true when embarking and disembarking from ferries.

Space is at a premium here, so one cannot afford to waste it. Many of the domestic garages are TOO narrow to accommodate modern cars, so one would need to fold-in the external mirrors and push the vehicle in and out, because one could NOT open & close the vehicle door far enough, to get in or out of the driver's seat. Some modern cars are also TOO long to fit in many domestic garages.
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Regards.

Nigel A. Skeet

Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.

Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper

Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)

http://www.vwt2oc.net

[rottenkid]

I know what you mean about Britain. I have driven there. You drive around the round-about faster than on the round-about in Canada.

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[chabanais]

I use these. Getting tougher to find this size that don't have the black plastic border. I ordered 4 boxes on eBay from South Korea.

Been using this for 20 years works fine. They last for 4 or 5 years then fall off then you stick another one on there.

When I parallel park they allow me to see the curb. I see no need to install larger mirror.

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[rottenkid]

I had the smaller cover mirrors, but I found them just too small and put on the larger ones. I use them on mt Astro Van and my GMC pickup. I have paralleled parked those vehicles using those mirrors, so I know I would have no problem with my bus.