Convex external drivers side mirror
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From: George W Frost on 21 Apr 2010 08:40 "Someone Else" <bogusname(a)smallpond.com> wrote in message news:4bced028$0$24251$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > > "Pete" <pjetson(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:4BCE9771.6070609(a)yahoo.com... >> My wife's 2006 Honda Jazz has a convex driver's side mirror. I'm looking >> for someone to supply a replacement flat mirror in Melbourne - does >> anyone have any ideas on who I can call? >> >> While I was googling to try to find a supplier, I came across what seems >> to be the current ADR for rear vision mirrors: >> >> <http://www.fedlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/LegislativeInstrumentCompilation1.nsf/0/88A97BFF3124ECEDCA257257007D18BC/$file/ADR1401comp1FINALFRLI.pdf> >> >> The ADR says that the external driver's side mirror must be flat. How >> then have Honda been able to sell this car with a convex mirror? >> >> Peter > > That ADR reference is out of date. Get your hands on ADR 14/02. Key > words: "The reflecting surface of a mirror must be either flat or > spherically convex. Exterior mirrors may be equipped with an additional > aspherical part provided that the main mirror fulfils the requirements of > the indirect field of vision." > > I test drove a new Golf today - it has a convex external mirror - quite > annoying when you've been used to a flattie for decades... > I have those smaller convex mirrors stuck onto my original mirrors and work with them all the time
From: atec7 7 ""atec77 " on 21 Apr 2010 08:59 Someone Else wrote: > > > I test drove a new Golf today - it has a convex external mirror - quite > annoying when you've been used to a flattie for decades... > > Your head or the mirror ?
From: Milton on 21 Apr 2010 15:28 "Pete" <pjetson(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4BCE9771.6070609(a)yahoo.com... > My wife's 2006 Honda Jazz has a convex driver's side mirror. I'm looking > for someone to supply a replacement flat mirror in Melbourne - does anyone > have any ideas on who I can call? > > While I was googling to try to find a supplier, I came across what seems > to be the current ADR for rear vision mirrors: > > <http://www.fedlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/LegislativeInstrumentCompilation1.nsf/0/88A97BFF3124ECEDCA257257007D18BC/$file/ADR1401comp1FINALFRLI.pdf> > > The ADR says that the external driver's side mirror must be flat. How > then have Honda been able to sell this car with a convex mirror? > > Peter QUICK QUICK, where's Sylvia?? Wait until she wades through 23 books of law on the subject. As for the convex mirrors, I still don't like the one on the passenger side, let alone now having to cope with the drivers side one as well. Don't they think we use them to reverse with? Don't have a problem with them on the forward highway driving but reversing? No thanks.
From: Mr.T on 23 Apr 2010 22:11 "F Murtz" <haggisz(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4bd15474(a)dnews.tpgi.com.au... > Haggle it to the lowest then make it a further condition. That's an obvious contradiction. MrT.
From: Mr.T on 23 Apr 2010 22:14
"Atheist Chaplain" <abused(a)cia.gov> wrote in message news:4bd18652(a)news.x-privat.org... > >> Of course they would, if the cost to them is less than what they would > >> otherwise be prepared to give you as a discount. So why would you not be > >> better off simply haggling for a better deal and driving to a glazier > >> yourself? > >> > > Haggle it to the lowest then make it a further condition. > > exactly. Gee you guys really believe Any dealer will NOT factor in the cost to them for getting the mirrors replaced? You obviously have NO idea what "haggle it to the lowest" actually means! MrT. |