How to Properly Set Your Side Mirrors
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2017
- Setting your car’s mirrors properly will ensure that you can always see what's behind your car, even if you don’t have a high-tech blind spot monitoring system or one of the new full-time rearview cameras. Cars.com’s Joe Wiesenfelder provides step-by-step instructions to make sure you’re seeing all there is to see when driving.
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I adjusted my mirrors this way and now the rear of my car ran away. Thanks a lot.
There’s one very important thing that I wished he touched on: the purpose of side mirrors is to see what your rear view mirror cannot see. To set them properly and to ensure you don’t create 2 blind spots by setting them too far, set them to where there is just a little bit of overlap with the rear view mirror for each side view mirror.
I've been teaching my students this correct mirror adjustment method for years, with only one change. I teach my students that even if they like birds, airplanes and sky, that is NOT what their side mirrors are for. Please get it down to where the action is. You want to see traffic only. Maximize your field of view.
I'm still worried the the rear of my car will drop off if I don't keep an eye on it.
Been doing this around 15 years or so. What might be even easier an explaination on how to set the sideviews out is to first adjust your rearview to see the entire back window. Then tilt the sideviews out so as soon as the rearview field ends your sideviews begin; if you set them out a little further you run the risk of having small blinds between the rear and sideviews for cyclists or pedestrians, which is why I prefer to leave no gap at all. Anyway, you can test your setup with objects in your background view to be sure you're catching everything. The guy in this video is right though, if you've done this right then as soon as the cars disappear from your sideview mirrors (as they're begining to overtake your position on the sides) you should be able to see their front bumper come into your side windows, or peripheral view. But be mindful of overlapping the mirror fields as well, as conversely they can cause a small blind directly on the side of your vehicle.
My issue is seeing parking lines and curbs when reversing
Well cheese and bread, I've been doing it wrong all along.
Omg, Now lane changing wont be so stressful for me. I had my mirrors too inwards like that and looking into the side mirrors stress me out, coz too much is going on in the view lol. thank you for this video! haha
I used this video and had to come back and say a big ‘Thank You’!!! I had been concerned about my side mirrors and didn’t feel comfortable changing lanes. Yesterday I changed lanes and almost ran a man off the road. I searched TH-cam and found this video. I am sooo confident now. I see everything I need to see! Thanks again!!❤️
This clarified a lot of my confusion on the road..i was setting the mirrors wrong and used to get confused as through the mirrors i kept seeing lanes behind me (same lane as my car) and never could judge which one is where i am going to move into. This video solved that for me.. adjusting mirrors is the most important and my instructors never taught the right position.. they always adjust your mirror but doesnt give tell you how.. thanks a ton for this video.
i have a drivers test tomorrow and i just got so paranoid so here i am
I saw this tip about 15 years ago on a local tv newscast (a car segment). I had been setting my mirrors down the side. Afterwards, it took a few days to get used to it, but it made it unnecessary to swivel my head around. Since then I can see with my peripheral vision (especially at night) when a car comes up on my rear quarter panel. And like the presenter said, as soon as it leaves the mirror, the car is coming into my side window. This actually does shrink the blind spots way down when done properly.
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This is the correct way to adjust those especially side mirrors. I'm happy that I've been setting up like this for quite a while.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU You did a brief EXCELLENT instruction on this. You placed the side/rear cars in the perfect spot, and moved the side mirrors to the absolute correct angles. YOU NAILED IT! I am a Driver's Ed Teacher for 19 years, and this is exactly what the TX Ed. Agency taught us to begin teaching this in 2003 (kind of a DUH moment eh!) Now I can share this with my parents!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU .
Best way is to lean left until touching the closed driver's side window, then set the left side mirror to show a sliver of car. Then lean right, centering your head over the center console (centerline) of the car, then set your right side mirror to show only a sliver of car. Just two little tricks to make this easier.
I learn to drive (I'm at 42 hours) and today I had a very dangerous situation. I drove on a dual carriageway and we were behind a pretty slow lorry. I wanted to change lane and the traffic was high. I saw a blue car behind me, that was a little bit faster than me but I saw behind the blue care came a silver car and there is a big gap and the silver car is very far. I thought I will change lane after the blue car.
Totally worked and helped me teach my daughter. I’ve been driving almost 30 years. Big change. Thanks.
Thank you for this video I recently started driving and the way I'm driving teacher told me how to adjust my mirror it was a little uncomfortable for me because I couldn't really see what I needed to and then I used this method and it worked really great
Best mirror adjustment video ever!