Travelling around this great wide land of ours, I have comeacrossfar too manycaravannerstowing their pride and joy with no towing mirrors. Not only is this dangerous but the fine for doing so will put a decent dent in the wallet. It appears some of our fellow travellers do not understand the concept of, if you trailer is as high or higher than the side mounted mirrors and wider than the tow vehicle your rear view is extremely limited. How many others have seen this.
I too have seen that Klaus. I don't know their thinking or how they even get away with it. "BOOK 'EM DANNO"
The law is the law. No if but's or maybe's. If the object being towed is wider than the towing vehicle you MUST have towing mirrors fitted. No excuses! Yes, you can have cameras on the towed object but that doesn't cover to law.
I have both, mirrors on car and good quality full time camera on back of the aluminium tent.
I decided before I even got the aluminium tent to get Clearview mirrors fitted. Some don't like them because they reckon they look like elephant ears. SO WHAT! Safety is more important. The camera on back is a Safety Dave wired full time camera. No blue tooth or whatever it's called, for this old Chief.
Do I regret the Clearviews? Not on your sweat bippy. I love everything about them. Towing or not towing. The vision is second to none. Between them and the camera I can always see where I am going and where I have been and both sides. CLEARLY!
Yep, I love my Clearviews and never leave home without them.
(I just love them and don't own the company or sell them)
Keep Safe on the roads and out there all.
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DEN....... 2014 "Chief" Arrow CV (with some changes)
After trying several brands of clip ons I settled on Clearviews. Larger than any clip-ons they gave such an improvement in views both behind and alongside.
(The Clearviews even do away with the annoying problem with clip-ons each time they were fitted after being removed they have to be realigned!)
Those advocating rear view cameras overlook one critical factor the cameras do not show vehicles alongside vans.
When following a caravan you can tell that the tug doesn't have suitable mirrors as the driver puts the indicators on for several hundred metres. You can read their minds, "Well, I've given them enough warning to get out of the way so I can change lanes."
I have had the same set of Milenco mirrors for about 8 years and they are brilliant. It is just a matter of inserting the arm into the existing side mirror and tightening up the screws. I don't need to adjust them as they go into the same position each time. When not towing, simply undo the two screws and secure them inside the tug.
They don't blow about when trucks go past and don't vibrate. I think they cost me about $150 when I bought them but haver seem them much cheaper online and at discount places.
My car is a Nissam Patrol Y62, which is so wide that we can see down the sides of our Kimberley Kruiser E3, and could see down the sides of our previous caravan a Golf 390. We also have rear view and reversing cameras on our new caravan.
I have had the same set of Milenco mirrors for about 8 years and they are brilliant. It is just a matter of inserting the arm into the existing side mirror and tightening up the screws. I don't need to adjust them as they go into the same position each time. When not towing, simply undo the two screws and secure them inside the tug.
They don't blow about when trucks go past and don't vibrate. I think they cost me about $150 when I bought them but haver seem them much cheaper online and at discount places.
Too true DMaxer; Would have to be the best value for money and, they attach to existing mirrors, so they fold in when you lock vehicle.
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I don't know what OE mirrors DMaxer has on his car or the type of Milencos - there is a large mirror (Grand Aero 4) & also one that is significantly smaller (Aero 4). Perhaps his Isuzu mirror is different to my 2019 model. I could only get the Grands & was assured that vibration would be minimal!
I removed both - the OE & the Milencos & fitted MSA mirrors. No they don't fold in when the ignition is off but I can live with that (so far). I can leave them on permanently as they are of similar size to the OEs - I extended.
Issues I had with the Milencos - vibration that I couldn't stop & the last straw was when the OE mirror housing started to crack. I gave them to my son who has recently bought a camper & Ford Everest. He too has vibration issues but they were "cheap"!
Looking at my mirror history, the best ones I had were the ORAs but with the cheap imports, they are harder to obtain.
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