LROI - Defender with extra mirrors...

I was looking through this months LROI for some explanation of the picture
in the previous issues article about where you can take a bog standard 90
('How Deep, How Steep). One of the pictures clearly shows the 90 approching
the reader with a second door-mirror on the drivers side...?

Why? How?

I assume it's another of those photographs where they've been playing around
with photo-shop, making the mud look deeper and the slope look steeper.
It's now my standard approach to line up the trees in their photos with the
vertical and then assess what sort of gradient the vehicle was REALLY on!

Is it useful for rear seat passengers to be able to see what's coming up
behind?

Cheers,

M.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:26:27 -0000, "McBad"
<[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he wrote:

>One of the pictures clearly shows the 90 approching
>the reader with a second door-mirror on the drivers side...?
>
>Why? How?

Can't lay my hands on a copy right now but might it be to give the
driver a view down to the rear wheel or down at the verge on his side?
Might not look much of an angle in the pic but could be enough to help
the driver without having to move the normal mirror.
--

Wayne Davies, Harrogate 07989 556213

Just another point of view...
www.4x4prejudice.org

http://public.fotki.com/marksolesbury/random_****e/dscf0153.html
http://public.fotki.com/marksolesbury/random_****e/dscf0143.html
http://public.fotki.com/marksolesbury/random_****e/dscf0144.html


I dont know what it is either, but its not in any other shots.

So i can only assume that its a vehicle behind, or some muppets left a layer
showing in Photoshop....


Mark.


<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:26:27 -0000, "McBad"
> <[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he wrote:
>
> >One of the pictures clearly shows the 90 approching
> >the reader with a second door-mirror on the drivers side...?
> >
> >Why? How?
>
> Can't lay my hands on a copy right now but might it be to give the
> driver a view down to the rear wheel or down at the verge on his side?
> Might not look much of an angle in the pic but could be enough to help
> the driver without having to move the normal mirror.
> --
>
> Wayne Davies, Harrogate 07989 556213
>
> Just another point of view...
> www.4x4prejudice.org

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:17:27 GMT, "Mark Solesbury"
<[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he wrote:

>http://public.fotki.com/marksolesbury/random_****e/dscf0144.html

Under the Title of Side Slopes there is a pic of what looks like the
same LR taken from a different angle, can't quite see if it is in that
pic? It almost looks like the pic with it in is another vehicle behind
it.

Tell you what though, that close up of the driver looks uncannily like
me, but he has more hair.

Anyway, don't know what the fuss is about, magazines never make
anything up...
--

Wayne Davies, Harrogate 07989 556213

Just another point of view...
www.4x4prejudice.org

<[email protected]> wrote

> >One of the pictures clearly shows the 90 approching
> >the reader with a second door-mirror on the drivers side...?
> >Why? How?
>
> Can't lay my hands on a copy right now but might it be to give the
> driver a view down to the rear wheel or down at the verge on his
side?
> Might not look much of an angle in the pic but could be enough to
help
> the driver without having to move the normal mirror.


I drive a LHD Defender 130 and have put an extra one under the
right-hand mirror for my front passenger to use.

I took an old caravan towing extension mirror that I used on my
Discovery. It's mounted down rather than out, as designed.

It works quite well and being lower has the advantage that it's below
the window for the driver.

We both drive on and off road, and found the loss of the internal
windscreen mirror (we added a second one for the passenger) a problem.

It would also work on a RHD as well.

Reg.