Adjusting towing mirrors

Scottie2

With towing mirror heads being reasonably stiff to adjust to that fine accuracy and my wife finds trying to adjust the passenger side mirror from outside to my directions,  it’s food for thought if a manufacturer like Milenco or Towsure, could make mirrors with electric motors incorporated into them, the same as most cars nowadays have as standard, and had them prewired for a 12 volt connection from a dashboard mounted power supply socket, similar to what is done when mounting your dashcam power feed, then adjustment of towing mirrors by the driver from the drivers seat would be a doddle. No, it’s not April Fool’s Day. 

EmilysDad

Like these then? 😉 A bit on the expensive side though. 😲

Tinwheeler

Two main reasons - cost and the weight of the motor hanging on your existing mirror. 

SteveL

I find that as long as I take them of carefully and put them in a locker where the are not disturbed, they are still OK when next attached. 

If I let OH remove them, I have to spend ages readjusting.☹️

Cornersteady

You're a braver man than me posting that? I take it Mrs Steve doesn't read these pages?

(actually Mrs CS doesn't)

dmiller555

And that's just for one!

I think I'll continue gesticulating / shouting at my wife for a while longer.

EasyT

I adjust my own mirrors, remove and store carefully and I am protective of them so that there is little need to readjust over about 2 dozen uses a year

Cornersteady

can't understand why so expensive for one mirror? Do motors and the electronics add that much cost?

EmilysDad

My driver's side mirror tends to be set correctly each time they're refitted. The passenger side though can be anything from looking at the floor to watching planes go by 🤔

Tinwheeler

They’ll still get hit by white van man as well.

dmiller555

I guess that you have never brought a replacement motorised mirror for your car. 

EmilysDad

I have. And it was expensive. 

Cornersteady

Well other drivers insurance paid for it but it had to match and from the car manufacturer, and it had to be installed/fitted at a garage, and needed wiring up correctly.

None of which appear to be true for the one that MM showed. 

Scottie2

Yes, it’s really the passenger side I am referring to..The drivers side is e@sy enough leaning out of the window...I do try to store them safely so that they retain their previous settings but in the boot they tend to get the odd knock and are never right when next fitted.

Rod10

I bought the Reich remote control mirrors as a pair and paid about £300. Expensive, I agree but they are amazing when travelling solo and also for avoidance of "up a bit, not to far! Left a bit, no the other left..." disagreements. I don't find them noticeably heavier than previous mirrors I've owned.

Merve

My ‘Suck it and See’ mirror attaches to the glass of the original mirror and they are electric so although it’s a solid construction I still have electronically controlled mirrors.- if that makes sense........😂