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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 822326" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Some of the new P-7's have mirrors mounted low and forward. You cannot reach them from inside the cab. And even on the ones you can reach, the danger is when you are getting ready to leave and you have to reach out and grab the mirror in order to put it back into position. With the mirror folded in, you cannot see anything coming up behind you on the drivers side.</p><p> </p><p>My experience has been that, over time, the spring that holds tension on the mirror arm tends to loosen up the more you fold the mirror in and out. In a day or two it can easily get so loose that driving at freeway speeds will cause the mirror to fold in just from the force of its own wind resistance. This is unsafe when it occurs at 50 MPH. Once I get my mirrors set to where I want them, <em>I leave them alone</em> unless I am in a driveway with thick branches that might break them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 822326, member: 14668"] Some of the new P-7's have mirrors mounted low and forward. You cannot reach them from inside the cab. And even on the ones you can reach, the danger is when you are getting ready to leave and you have to reach out and grab the mirror in order to put it back into position. With the mirror folded in, you cannot see anything coming up behind you on the drivers side. My experience has been that, over time, the spring that holds tension on the mirror arm tends to loosen up the more you fold the mirror in and out. In a day or two it can easily get so loose that driving at freeway speeds will cause the mirror to fold in just from the force of its own wind resistance. This is unsafe when it occurs at 50 MPH. Once I get my mirrors set to where I want them, [I]I leave them alone[/I] unless I am in a driveway with thick branches that might break them. [/QUOTE]
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