wing mirrors vs door mirrors

[Pyoor_Kate]

There seem to be several different designs of wing mirror with varying lengths of stalks. While I used to be all door mirrors, having got used to the minor's wing mirrors - and the fact Rebecca has excellent ones; I now don't actually like door mirrors so much.

I quite like the fact that the mirrors are constantly in my field of vision; but then mine do seem to be better positioned and longer stalked than most (they're not van ones, which are longer still)

[badfelafel]

i have door mounted mirrors, in between the window and the quarterlight. they were very expensive, and they're almost completely hopeless. too far back to see without sitting back and up straight, no use at all!

the range of adjustment is really poor, i cant even get them to point in the right direction!

[ColinP]

Having recently driven a Minor without the near-side wing mirror, I now realise it's a great help to guess the width of the car....

The whole n/s front wing is invisible from the driver's side. The mirror gives a good estimate of where the edge is.

Cheers,

Colin

[cprecious]

I've bought a couple of side mirrors with fittings similar to the ones shown in the photo but I'm darned if I can work out how to fix them to the doors. Can anyone help me ??

[DanRodd]

i have wing mounted mirrors on mine(round)and dont have any problem with them,dorr mounted ones look ugly anyway but once set up i find that combined with the interior mirror they are no problem at all.

[dunketh]

I've recently fitted some rectangular mirrors to mine as my 'lollipops' went missing one night. (kids, drunks, who knows??)

Anyway, these are very convex and give excellent vison of both the side of the car and the area behind me. No more 'rear arch' blindspot!

Those clamp on jobs just clamp to the metal door/window frame don't they?

[dalebrignall]

i have got mirrirs on the wings,i use the nearside one on the motorway.they do tend to vibrate around. i also have one on the drivers side quaterlight,this is a usefull one agsin you get vibration,but a good field of view.i fing the mirror inside the car very good.