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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2011, 09:25:42 pm »
had to go out and look lol...no they dont go in as far as i thought
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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2011, 09:35:08 pm »
Don’t know how many of you garage your cars, but when it comes to getting the wing mirrors through the stupidly narrow entrances that we British use for the size of a garage (and then struggle to open the car door in the garage), I can say that folding mirrors do make a difference. It may be only about 60-70mm narrower if that but it does make it easier to drive through the opening.   :laugh:

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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2011, 09:39:41 pm »
had to go out and look lol...no they dont go in as far as i thought


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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2011, 09:56:04 pm »
Alot of people seem to think the folding mirrors are pointless but for me personally they fold in enough to make parking into my garage alot easier! :smiley:

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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2011, 10:00:32 pm »
Don’t know how many of you garage your cars, but when it comes to getting the wing mirrors through the stupidly narrow entrances that we British use for the size of a garage (and then struggle to open the car door in the garage), I can say that folding mirrors do make a difference. It may be only about 60-70mm narrower if that but it does make it easier to drive through the opening.   :laugh:



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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2011, 06:21:27 am »
Where is the button to fold the mirrors ???

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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2011, 06:48:45 am »
Where is the button to fold the mirrors ???

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If you have the added option it is on the mirror adjust knob, you have adjustment for left and right mirrors, heated setting then a further setting for folding ther mirrors in.

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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2011, 07:03:35 am »
Like this pic


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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2011, 07:13:33 am »
Thankyou Sean ,

he just has L R and the twisty knob

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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2011, 05:06:11 pm »
my non electric folding mirrors dont even fold in that far
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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2011, 05:22:23 pm »
had to go out and look lol...no they dont go in as far as i thought

Umm forgot to unfold my mirrors on my way to work this morning,, was that bloody tired...only realised this afternoon,,
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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2011, 05:25:25 pm »
had to go out and look lol...no they dont go in as far as i thought

Umm forgot to unfold my mirrors on my way to work this morning,, was that bloody tired...only realised this afternoon,,


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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2011, 07:03:23 pm »
Got the car back from the service.  Turns out they weren't folding in as much as they should be so they're fixed now and fold in a decent amount!!  :pomppomp:

If someone has moved them manually, they get 'upset' apparently.  So the garage manually moved them in and out a few times which appears to reset them and now they work properly! yay!

Headlight skoosher question now...

Manual says they come on every 5th time you use the window skooshers, but I'm not convince mine have ever come on yet.  Any tips for using them, i.e. is there a minimum time you should hold the skoosher lever back for before they kick in etc??

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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2011, 07:19:15 pm »
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Would you mind taking a photo of how far they fold in for us, I would be interested to see !
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Re: Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!
« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2011, 07:20:49 pm »
Chumba

Would you mind taking a photo of how far they fold in for us, I would be interested to see !
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Not a problem... might need to wait until the weekend though... bit dark and foggy out just now!!