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   JeffBuck | Sep 16, 2003 01:12am | #1

   U mean the stick on convex mirrors?

   I prefer the smaller...about an inch across....

   was just telling the wife this past weekend ...she was driving her car ....I don;t know how ya drive without them!

   Need one for each side on the van......started using them about 10 yrs ago.....

   used to place them on the outside corner ......now I like them on the inside.....middle....right at the post on the Chevy ....

   Jeff

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   CAGIV | Sep 16, 2003 01:23am | #2

   I have some small ones, ~1 1/2" around  and they work well.

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   bobl | Sep 16, 2003 01:34am | #3

   Jeff, CAG,

   Yea, those are the one I was thinking of

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   YesMaam27577 | Sep 16, 2003 03:00am | #4

   I use one on the driver's side only -- it's really good at showing vehicles in the blind spot. For the right side, I just look over my shoulder.

   And about twenty years ago, I had a full size van that I had bought used. The previous owner had left something in the windshield that I have been looking for ever since.

   It was a clear vinyl suction cup, with a concave survace on BOTH sides. One side stuck to the windshield from the suction. The other side acted as a forward-looking blindspot sight. With that thing, I could see traffic lights that were almost directly above my bumper. There was no need to lean forward, then twist my neck to look up.

   Wish I could find one of those for my current pickup.

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   caseyr | Sep 16, 2003 06:04am | #5

   There were a variety of prisms and mirrors available back in the 50's when visor's were popular.  Probably gone the way of buggy whips by now...

   A small 1" circular mirror was on the Chevy pickup I bought whereas I put a larger rectangular (about 2"x3") on my station wagon.  The larger one was wedge shaped so couldn't easily be used on the other side.  I find the small one too small to really see anything that isn't almost on top of you.  It takes a moment to refocus your eyes on any of the convex mirrors from the flat mirror that they are on and sometimes I forget to do this.  I would actually prefer a flat mirror or one with minimal magnification that I could attach to the bottom of my regular mirror and then turn it just enough so that it covers the blind spot.  May have to make my own, unfortunately...  One of the new trucks, maybe Ford, has a two part mirror with the lower section magnified that looks pretty good, but don't think I can afford the price of a new Ford just to get a better blind spot mirror...

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   briankeith | Sep 17, 2003 12:25am | #8

   One of the new trucks, maybe Ford, has a two part mirror with the lower section magnified that looks pretty good, but don't think I can afford the price of a new Ford just to get a better blind spot mirror...

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   donpapenburg | Sep 16, 2003 06:06am | #6

   Check at your local hot rod shop . They use them in cars with choped tops . Check JC Whitney.

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   calvin | Sep 16, 2003 03:03pm | #7

   bobl,  I like this rectangular add on as it doesn't distort the sides.  I have seen stock mirrors w/the bottom portion curved down, a much bigger field of view. 

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