Another option is why not just pull yourself 6 inches closer to the steering wheel when checking your blind spot . Doing so which change the viewing angle of your mirror and will give you a sweeping view of the blind spot spot area you are concerned with. Try it as it’s so simple and only takes half a sec to do before lane changes . No offence to anyone here but I consider those convex round mirrors stuck on the side mirrors a sign of a poor driver and usually give those cars that have them a wide berth

 

Yeah that wouldnt work with the acute angle scenario, seriously there is absolutely no way to solve it except to reposition the car, or maybe if you shifted the mirror it might do something (didnt think of that at the time). From memory it is worse when your car is pointed away from oncoming traffic, so the blindspot is on the passenger side at maybe 4 o'clock relative to the driver. If that is where cars are coming from, it pretty nasty.

 

Along the same line of thought whenever I see a car in front of me with a "baby on board" sticker on the rear window I think to myself "be even more careful than usual" as it's obvious the driver has no clues (as well as usually driving painfully slowly, but I repeat myself). Why would anyone who has the foggiest idea how to drive safely drive any differently because they have a baby on board????

 

I always thought that was to encourage other drivers not to dick around near the car with the baby in it!

 

What I forgot to say is "baby on board sticker = muppet behind the wheel".

 

Didnt have one of those but we do have a dog on board one on our dog-mobile

 

im all over the cockpit trying to peer out the window so thats not it.

the bottom line is there is a huge chunk of metal in the way and no matter what....the emporer has no clothes on and only a few here can see that.

the car is lovely but i bet most insurance wrecked F types are on the rear passenger side.

congrats to the giraffes who dont see this as an issue
lol

 

im going to apply a baby on board sticker, blind spot mirrors and a christian fish today in the hope everyone on the road will avoid me

 

You forgot the "my stick car family" stickers, the other giveaway of "muppet behind the wheel".

 

yes, i'll add that to the hatch window

 

Or to encourage paedophiles to get up close and personal!

 

I don’t get it and don’t understand . So much so and just went out and sat in the car I case I had go it wrong but I haven’t.

Right hand drive here so some initial confusion about blind spot references with 4 o’clock relative to driver and for me 7 o’clock on the other side

i can see from basically 6 o,clock( straight down the side of the car) to 7 o’clock seated normally with my side mirrors. Leaning forward I can see from 7 o’clock around to 8 o’clock, look out the side window I can see from 8 o’clock around to front of car. Same applies on other side.

I can only guess that it doesn’t work if you have your side mirrors tilted too far inwards and seeing too much of the side of the car or haven’t understood what I am saying or don’t want to lean forward to check the blind spots when driving in which case the blind spot is unavoidable. If this is the case a convex mirror will be the only solution

 

This!
The correct way to set your exterior/side mirrors is so that just as the car behind and to the side is about to disappear from the interior rear view mirror it appears in the side mirror, with maybe a quarter car overlap, and vice versa.
However here in Oz I reckon no more than 5% of drivers get this right and 95% of them set the exterior/side mirrors waaay too far in so that they show much the same view as the interior mirror which then creates a large blind spot.
For years I have played a little game when pulling up behind someone at the traffic lights - if I can see their face in the driver's side exterior mirror then I know they have a huge blind spot and I need to be extra careful when going past them on that side (and odds on the same the other side). And as I said I reckon it's 95%.
This is why I consciously do not sit in the blind spot for any longer than I have to and as soon as I get the (safe) chance to go past them I do, and I don't go past slowly I get past as quickly as I safely can, never mind that I will be "speeding" for a few seconds. I have done this for nearly 50 years now and never had a problem or caused a crash, in fact I reckon I have probably prevented quite a few "incidents" this way.

 

The other approach is to stay behind - if they're really that bad a driver you're safer behind where you can control things, rather than being in front relying on what happens behind you.

 

You need to come to Oz and drive on Adelaide roads to experience the shocking level of snail-like driving here!
At least 80% of them crawl along at or below the ridiculously low speed limit, with most of them pegging the speedo at smack on the limit while having no idea that they are actually going 5 - 10 km/h below the limit (due to almost all cars here having speedos that over-read by around 8%).
No way am I going to sit behind one of these muppets for mile after mile!

 

Obviously if you can get well away from them my comments don't apply. In the UK it's not so easy ....

 

OK, I just went for a pizza run and paid particular attention to the blind spot (because I have no life). On my car it is the passenger side, about 6.30 - 8 o'clock. In case where the angle of the T section was such that the oncoming traffic was in the blind spot, shifting the mirrors wouldnt help at all as the view would still be of (say) 6 - 7 o'clock maximum (relative to the passenger side of the car). Moving your head around doesnt help as the passenger seat then gets in the way, so for practical purposes the blind spot is pretty much from about 7 o'clock to 8.30 and more to the point if you are at that angle, by the time you see an oncoming car it is very, very close.

That said, it isnt very often that you have an intersection where oncoming traffic is at that angle, I can only remember it happening once or twice.

 

As further refinement of Oz’s adjustment instructions: when adjusting the driver side mirror, your head should be resting against the side window with the side of the car just barely visible in the mirror. Your head should be leaned just as far in the opposite direction to adjust the passenger side.

 

sorry Bruce but I haven’t explained myself well enough. When moving forward ( chin towards the steering wheel) to check the blind spot I am still looking into the side mirrors , not looking sideways or around the passenger seat at all. After this I will the look out the side windows of the appropriate side

 

Yeah I put my head against the glass on the driver side to adjust that mirror, and try to put it right above the center console to adjust the passenger one. On the F-Type it seems like my head needs to be just a bit off-center toward the driver side (compared to other cars) to get the passenger mirror just right. Maybe because of those sexy wide hips