Headlights beaming onto your rear car mirror

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

You couldn't make this up

 

[minnieme]

Put a red bulb in the internal light & drive with it on, For some reason this stops glare from other cars.

 

[csider]

My 2 mates from england who are here with me have driven for the same time and both never knew either!

where did you learn to drive...........India??

 

[Garage_Doors]

This has to go Gold, 6 years !!!!!!!:thud:

 

[Gritt23]

Some cars (BMW) have a sensor in the mirror that dips it when detecting strong headlights behind. Bloody clever them Crouts.

Yeah, my car does that. Didn't know if there was a little knob to manually adjust it on my previous cars though. This is news to me.

 

[csider]

would say more of a switch im cars i have had............from alfas to astons. never had to turn to make it change angle?

 

[Skint Gull]

I didn't know this either, although lets be fair it's only a problem when you get the odd twat who hasn't lower his headlights properly

 

[saafend_seagull]

Yeah, my car does that. Didn't know if there was a little knob to manually adjust it on my previous cars though. This is news to me.

this car is a bmw and im pretty sure it doesnt have this

 

[vegster]

I often have to bend my rearview mirror some way over to avoid the curse of dazzle. On occasions I have had to adjust my wing mirrors too to avoid the dazzle from some prat with double decker mal-adjusted headlights parked 10 feet off my tail who thinks he's driving the mothership from Close Encounters..

 

[Notters]

It's a flap on mine... I don't know how the hell anyone's ever managed to do motorway/dual carriageway driving at night (safely) without knowing this!

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

WTF? Are you talking about changing the angle of the mirrors? Obviously you should do that before you set off on any journey, especially if like me you like to sit way back in your chair giving attitude to all the other drivers at red lights.

If not how do you do this dimming thing then?

 

[Taybha]

Totty says,which one is the rear view mirror then because there are 3.

 

[beorhthelm]

i didnt know about it for many years either and have no recollection of what brought it to my attention. dont think i remember anyone in my family ever using it. i dont like it in the town but its a godsend on the motorway.

 

[Conkers]

After driving for 6 years, this weekend was the first time i realised u can twist something at the bottom of your rear mirror to dim out the bright headlights from cars behind!? anyone else not know about these?

Wow you must have gone to a really shite University if you are that stupid..........

 

[Porky]

Been over here for ages, but also you can gat a ticket for following too closely with your high beams on. Don't know if it's the same in the UK.

 

[Black Country Seagull]

Took me a year to find it - I don't understand why it is never pointed out when you learn to drive!

 

[Black Country Seagull]

Been over here for ages, but also you can gat a ticket for following too closely with your high beams on. Don't know if it's the same in the UK.

Is that in case you blind a bear?

 

[Seagull Stew]

I find that slowing down, allowing the offending car to pass and then tailgaiting them with my lights on FULL BEAM is far more effective!

 

[csider]

Totty says,which one is the rear view mirror then because there are 3.

 

[NMH]

My Jeep Grand Cherokee had three settings on a switch on the rearview, for degrees of shading from glare..