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Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:47 pm
by 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.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:04 am
by 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.

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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.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:11 am
by Jeff V.
Here's one of the first decent driving videos I've found.



This is a good overview of how it works.


Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 7:24 am
by vr4
Ohhhh I like. Might want to do this to mine.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 2:55 pm
by 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. :lol:

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 4:48 pm
by 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.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:17 am
by 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....

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:12 pm
by Jeff V.
Steve wrote: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.
Ryan wrote: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.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:08 pm
by 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.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:09 pm
by 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

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:22 pm
by Jeff V.
Ryan wrote: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.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:29 pm
by 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.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:34 pm
by 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."

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:28 pm
by Jeff V.
I'm sorry. I'm really on edge today.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:19 pm
by tabasco122
Maybe your jorts are a bit too tight? Grass stains on your new balances? ��

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 2:59 pm
by Jeff V.
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Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 3:58 pm
by Chris GTO TT
Wow GM interiors really don't hold up :d err:

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:03 pm
by Jeff V.
It esploded.

Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:08 pm
by vr4
[quote=""Jeff V.""]It esploded.[/quote]

Still better than your typical early 00s ram

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Re: Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:46 am
by mjannusch
Brutal.