Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

[mjannusch]

Nice if you can get it working well and figure out a mount. That’s one of the features that I really like about the C8.

[Jeff V.]

If I want to get it in the roof, I'd basically need to do some kind of bump. Sort of like a cut down shark fin antenna. That's actually where they put it on the ZL1 since it won't fit in the carbon wing.



I can get a spare halo trim cover cheap enough. I'm just not sure I can come up with a housing that doesn't wreck the roof line of the car. There will be plenty of time to daydream about that though.

[Jeff V.]

Here's one of the first decent driving videos I've found.



This is a good overview of how it works.

[vr4]

Ohhhh I like. Might want to do this to mine.

[Jeff V.]

The gen 1 mirrors are relatively inexpensive. $100 or so. Some of them use a regular glass mount. The trick would be getting the camera. They're usually sold as part of whatever panel they're attached to. I had to buy a whole Camaro spoiler to get mine. Fortunately it was cheap, and shipping was free. I don't know how they don't lose money shipping something that big for free.

[ChargerX3]

I like it but can you rotate the mirror 180 deg? That way you actually get more visibility at the lower end of the screen.

[tabasco122]

I just have a broadway mirror in the forester, does the same thing sorta. I guess i could replace the rear windshield sprayer with a camera though....

[Jeff V.]

I like it but can you rotate the mirror 180 deg? That way you actually get more visibility at the lower end of the screen.

No. I doubt the internal wiring could take that, and all the controls would be upside down.

I just have a broadway mirror in the forester, does the same thing sorta.

Man, GM must feel stupid for spending all that money developing an electronic system when they could have just spent a couple dollars on some Chinese crap to get the same result.

[tabasco122]

Its actually pretty nice being able to see the entire rear window and out of the rear side windows at any time. But hey, be a dick about it, thats kinda your MO.

[aaronatstate]

We test drove a Traverse with the video rear view mirror before we got our Explorer. I liked it, but the weird thing about it was not seeing any interior of the car when it was on. I’m sure you’d get used to that, but at first it was really weird lol

[Jeff V.]

Its actually pretty nice being able to see the entire rear window and out of the rear side windows at any time. But hey, be a dick about it, thats kinda your MO.

Your Forester has significantly different glass profiles than a lot of newer cars do. Especially compared to something like my Corvette. It was a poor comparison.

[alienviking]

Hell that would be nice even in my wagon which has a TINY rear window. Most newer cars these days have insane blind spot areas due to design. Must be incredibly helpful on something like the Camaro.

[tabasco122]

[quote=""Jeff V.""]Your Forester has significantly different glass profiles than a lot of newer cars do. Especially compared to something like my Corvette. It was a poor comparison.[/quote]

yeah, i totally said "this is 100% unecessary and my $20 chinese crap mirror replicates every function of this design flawlessly."

[Jeff V.]

I'm sorry. I'm really on edge today.

[tabasco122]

Maybe your jorts are a bit too tight? Grass stains on your new balances? ��

[Jeff V.]

[Chris GTO TT]

Wow GM interiors really don't hold up :d err:

[Jeff V.]

It esploded.

[vr4]

[quote=""Jeff V.""]It esploded.[/quote]

Still better than your typical early 00s ram

[mjannusch]

Brutal.