Just lean on over to the right until your head is about centered between the driver s seat and passenger seat.
Car mirror blind spot adjustment.
How to adjust the rear view mirror to avoid blind spots.
The society of automotive engineers sae published a paper in 1995 suggesting how outside mirrors could be adjusted to eliminate blind spots.
Adjustable blind spot mirrors may cost a bit more but the added versatility is often worth the extra cost.
When you sit up straight in the driver s seat you shouldn t be able to see your own car at all.
Avoiding the blind spot for years we d been setting our side view mirrors so that they gave us a view of the back corner of our cars.
But according to the society of automotive engineers sae and car and dri.
Clean and completely dry your side mirror with any traditional mirror cleaner and cloth microfiber works best peel off the paper sticker at the back of the blind spot mirror and place it on the desired area use a cloth or towel to gently press down against.
After figuring out the desired placement.
Again adjust the mirror so that you can just about see the side of the car.
This is the way it s been done for generations from grandfather to father to us.
Lean to the left.
Now move the passenger side mirror away from you until you can t see any part of your car anymore.
To set your rear view mirrors in order to eliminate blind spots start by leaning your head to the left so that your head is almost touching the window.
Flip the mirror upside down if you are over 6 feet 1 8 m feet tall.
This repositions the mirror so that the bottom edge is 1 inch 2 5 cm 2 inches 5 1 cm higher than it is normally.
First position yourself in line with the centre console or rear view mirror.
Then adjust the driver s side window so that you can see just the rear end of the car in the mirror.
To adjust the driver s side mirror lean until your forehead touches the window glass.
Adjusting their vehicle s mirrors is something all drivers do as a normal routine.
Lastly some blind spot mirrors are constructed from aluminum rather than plastic.
The paper advocates adjusting the mirrors so far.
Then adjust the mirror until you can just barely see the slightest sliver of the side of your car.