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Old 09-01-2011, 11:22 AM
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Lol, I'll start driving with my windows folded and my fiancee always says, "aren't you gonna unfold your mirrors". Love the auto unfold feature.
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I heard one guy complaining that the auto fold mirrors take too long to deploy. This reminded me of our "first world problems" insead of third world problems where people really do have it bad some people complain of their first world problems. For example,


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yes, they unfold on 30+ speeds. Also you cannot fold them above 30+ speeds, only below.
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Another little thing about the mirrors is, when the drivers mirror select switch is moved to the left or in the drivers position and you put the car in reverse the passengers mirror should tilt down. If the drivers select switch is to the right for the passengers mirror and the car is put in reverse the passengers mirror should stay fixed. I might be reversed here on the positions of the switch, but I am sure you will get the just here.
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Originally Posted by mjojom
yes, they unfold on 30+ speeds. Also you cannot fold them above 30+ speeds, only below.
I guess that one time when I was driving and I had to fold the mirrors in (tight squeeze on a narrow street with a car coming towards me, I didn't want to smash my mirrors against the cars either side) must have been below 30mph. Thinking of where that was now, it was probably 15-25mph I'd have been going.

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Another little thing about the mirrors is, when the drivers mirror select switch is moved to the left or in the drivers position and you put the car in reverse the passengers mirror should tilt down. If the drivers select switch is to the right for the passengers mirror and the car is put in reverse the passengers mirror should stay fixed. I might be reversed here on the positions of the switch, but I am sure you will get the just here.
Thanks, but I really think everyone on the forum knows about that one. There's been 74 threads about it over the last few years
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Originally Posted by DD_545i
I guess that one time when I was driving and I had to fold the mirrors in (tight squeeze on a narrow street with a car coming towards me, I didn't want to smash my mirrors against the cars either side) must have been below 30mph. Thinking of where that was now, it was probably 15-25mph I'd have been going.


Thanks, but I really think everyone on the forum knows about that one. There's been 74 threads about it over the last few years
Yes, and that would be like me saying everyone knew about the folding option when driving away execpt for you...
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Originally Posted by tonyb635
Yes, and that would be like me saying everyone knew about the folding option when driving away execpt for you...
The auto-unfold is not so widely known.
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Originally Posted by tonyb635
Yes, and that would be like me saying everyone knew about the folding option when driving away execpt for you...
Lol. Not really. I am pretty active on the board, but didn't know about that.
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Is this on all models ?, I have my mirror folded and will be testing in about an hour when i pull out..
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Didn't work for me.. Are there any settings that needed to be changed ?


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