This should be the easiest retro of them all

Anybody have a part number for uk/rhd spec

 

Not a bad idea. Just bought a VW Arteon as a replacement for our everyday car and that has framless mirror - and I remember first time I was behind the wheel thinking "this mirror would have been so nice in the F-type....."

 

 

+1
everything behind you are already losers

 

It could be smaller and still give the same field of vision - and the frameless looks better.

Worth the money to change it? Probably not.

 

 

 

The frameless mirror in the 2018+ F-Types has three Homelink buttons and auto-dimming built in.

 

The framed mirror creates a pretty massive blind spot for me. There are a few uphill right-hand turns in my commute where the road ahead is completely obscured and I have to lean to look around the mirror to see where I'm going.

I might have to drop in to the dealer and see whether the new mirror is enough smaller to be worth the effort.

EDIT: I recall that the wiring changed (>2017?) from discussions of hardwiring radar detectors. That might cause difficulty for those of us with earlier cars.

 

I can't imagine a frameless mirror would provide more than a few millimeters, and while I understand that every little bit counts... if you really cared about vision you bought the wrong car.

 

The frameless on our 2018 doesn't noticeably improve the amount of view obstruction for me as compared to the pre-2018s. It does look more modern, but that's about it.

 

no need to drill down to how y additional inch of surface area provides x monetary return on part price

it simply looks more modern and higher quality

 

The most constantly annoying thing about my F-Type is the lack of a Home-Link Button. I can live with most of JLR's cheapskate decisions to leave out reasonable features, but not having a home link button drives me crazy. If I wanted to put up with Porsche and their options policy I would have bought a 911. My MB is two years older and has a wealth of features the F-Type does not. Poop, my Volvo 2004 V70 R is 10 years older and still has better technology. I thought when I bought an F-Type I would get contemporary technological features. Wrong. Its like a 1950's car. My XK8, V70R and E350 are all better.

 

I really care about vision, particularly forward :/

That indicates a few possibillities:

1) Other factors outweighed visibility, either individually, or in combination
2) I'm an idiot
3) It's hard to fully judge some aspects until you live with them on a daily basis
4) Test driving on the flats, even for an extended time, won't show that
5) The car isn't perfect

There are certainly other factors, and more than one may apply. I'd say two, at minimum, and quite likely all.

 

I'm not even sure what a Home-Link button does, so don't miss it. The infotainment and navigation are a bit slow-witted sometimes, and if they weren't standard there's a good chance I'd have not included them in my order.

 

All you needed to do was check off that option when buying. You would have gotten the wealth of other features with that.

 

Un, I know you are aware of what it takes to try to order a F-type. It should be a standard feature in developed countries. Period. At least with Porsche you can actually have a car built to order.

 

Here you go, 2018MY starts at K49804



Just remember if you are ordering a mirror with a garage door opener, there are different frequencies in different countries.

Federal = North America = 315MHz

China = who knows

The one that doesn't specify a market I am going to guess this is 434MHz but I don't know for sure

Low Power = Not a clue what that means

 

Just yankin' your chain. I would have assumed that most new cars on the lot would have the convenience option included, given the market the dealers are targeting. But, instead, the dealers are trying to keep the entry cost as low as possible by ordering stripped models for inventory.

 

Opens gates & garage doors, turns on houselights. Can remotely turn on any other device the imagination can come up with if the device is plugged into a receiver, but that's a subject for another thread.