w123 mirror delete
 

czech it

Before
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74...4/IMG_050h.jpg


After

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74...hoto0266-1.jpg

looks kinda weird but is better than a useless passenger side mirror. I wonder what my .CD is now. I still want a drivers side block off plate if possible.


the front is a frign brick. I must have scrapped off a million love bugs. I went through a few clouds of them yesturday and my windshield was covered in the remains of them. Plus my wiper fluid bottle leaks!.. so, driving was somewhat a challenge due to my ADD and trying to play connect the dots with dead bugs on the windscreen.


I love my brick with wheels

Looks kind of lobsided that way.

Looks like some kid came by and took it off.:D;)

how abut a picture of the side? what does the cover plate look like?

agreed; looks like your brick is lobsided. I use to live in Orlando and know all about those "love bugs". I often reminded my wife, but it didn't help.:D

Do you need a windshield washer tank that doesn't leak?

Passenger-side mirrors are only useless if you are like most of the population and point it straight back. You don't need to see the door handles (they're still there, trust me) and you can already see straight back with the inside mirror. Point the mirror further out so you can see the next lane.

I use the passenger side mirror and would never consider removing it.

Yep, and here's the proper way to aim those mirrors.

http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/mirrors/

Yeah, lopsided. I do like the headlights, though.

I frequently use my right side mirror, which is properly adjusted to see the lane to the right. Besides, I don't like the "single mirror" look.

Griot's garage makes a product called "bug off" and I am going to try it next week sometime when I get it. Ill let you know how it works.

You can add convex lenses to both sides, then they are really nice. You may get a ticket for missing the wing mirrors. Of course for photoshoots that is different.

The w124 with the rectangle and square mirror always throws off the symmetry, but we know why they did it.

Can I have your passenger mirror? :D

You can have my block-off plate.

I use the right side mirror ALL THE TIME, the 240 doesn't have one and I'm on the hunt for one. Its so easy for a motorcycle (or even a miata) to hide in your blind spot. My old GF didn't use her right side mirror and turned around every time she changed lanes to the right. It made mecringe every time and once she almost ran over a tire in the road because she had to look behind her for a second. I'd pick something less functional to remove...which, refreshingly, there's not much of on these cars.

Most folks without a passenger mirror pay semi-handsomely in order to get one. And you seem to be pleased to have removed yours. Well, you've always been kind of a "different guy" on here, but not in a bad way. But that looks just awful compared to mirrors on both sides. Symmetry is a wonderful thing.........

Isn't it funny how different we are? I drove my 1977 300D for several years without a right side mirror as that is the way it came. I complaining to my Mechanic about the lack of a right side mirror. Within a couple of months he produced a manual right side mirror. Now I'm my kind of happy.

Right on.
Why would you want to remove it??

Bah.. I am different lol.

Here is why I removed it. I learned to drive without a mirror on that side since my first car came without one. I have my main rear view mirror aimed to spot the right side since I use my left side rear view mirror to watch those blind spots. The glass on my old mirror is total crap, it has black spots all over it and nothing will remove them as well as the heavy scratches.

In other cars I have driven with a passenger side mirror I would aim it to it viewed to the left of the rear quarter panel and up into the other lane. This mirror wouldn't adjust to there. frankly, I've never used that mirror, always the main one and checked my blind spots.
I didn't like how it aimed and to my understanding the passenger side mirror is a weak point in these cars, other than the horrible "sun visors" that don't block the sun at all.

I can tell you this, when ever I change lanes I always look over and check my blind spots .

I'm going to keep my mirror in case I feel like getting new convex glass for it and w/e.


I will agree it does look lopsided.. and it is weird. But at least I can play it off as "weird german engineering" since I put the correct block off plate.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74.../Photo0267.jpg

the block off plate.



classic. Screw Symmetry....

Only one of my 4 W123s have come with a passenger mirror,

I was taught to drive without the mirror and I Find that the w123 doesn't have that many blind spots. Eagleco's roadster has... no blind spots.. lol


Plus I am trying some aeromods out and alot of the guys delete the external mirror for more of a streamlined body. But they do add convex mirrors on the inside of the car that do work very well. I'll be picking one up soon as I can find the right one.


now you've got me all worried I'm going to die without the mirror.

Why in gods name would you remove the pass mirror? Put it back man thats just awful.

Mine came without a passenger mirror and I don't miss it at all. If I want to change lanes, I'll use a bit of energy and turn my head to look over there.

The only time I dearly missed having one was when I parallel parked on the left side of a one-way street. I quickly learned not to do that again. :D

I like having one on the right but I actually seldom use it.

I suspect it might be worth a half mile per gallon though. And a mile per hour top speed.;)

Tom W

I'll keep driving with it off this week and think about putting it back on and try the adjusting thing.

I can tell you this. If I do aeromods, the hood star stays.. I don't care if it would save me 20 mpg by removing it, it stays!

I too rarely use it but when some jackhole cuts you off it makes the difference between a new front end and a safer quick lane change.

the glass is really messed up on the old mirror, I can barely see any thing in it... I tried to remove the mirror glass from a junk yard car but I didn't know how to... Its probably easy as pie.

I think it just pops off a ball joint inside the housing

I didn't want to pull on it hard and have it shatter in my hand, that would be a fun drive to the hospital( it would probably be faster than waiting for an ecnalubma since the junk yard is in the middle of BFE)

at least if you broke the glass, you would have been able to see your right side traffic during the drive to the emergency room...

bah

I don't think there is a blind spot with these cars. It's like driving in a glass bubble compared to modern cars. I remember when the right side mirror was an option and most cars drove without them. Amazing how many cars have backup cameras and displays because the rearward vision is so poor.

True, when was the last time you saw a mini-van without dents in the back?

Which is exactly what I do...

you guys are going to love this

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74...hoto0268-1.jpg


stage two is unfolding....

I wouldn't think of driving without both mirrors. About the time I "exert energy" to turn my head to change lanes is when the driver in front of me abruptly puts on the brakes and usually to change to the same lane. Besides that there are so many people out there with the very poor , and annoying, driving habit of "camping out" in blind spots. Granted, they are smaller on the MB but it seems they always can find them.

I bet there is considerably more aerodynamic drag from the wheels than that mirror would ever produce.

I'd never drive without both mirrors as it is against the law. What could be done is use interior mounted convex mirrors. A good amount of the guys on ecomodder have those setups and have not had any issues.

Not on cars 25+ years old.

i thought you were going to skirt the rear fenders?, nevermind, saw the other post

Eva is only.. 23 this year. Guy in my neighborhood has a model T hot rod sans mirrors ( except a rear view on the dash)... It's like sitting on a milk crate with big wheels to the back of you and a loud engine in front...

It looks like a salt flat racer. :D You should have kept the lowering springs. ;)

dude.. I should paint it flat black and put flames... lol

I know.. I should have kept them, but I needed spare cash to go to my alumni association volunteer effort thing.

I do want to polish all 4 when I buy more of them. I need to get the wheels rebalanced and have stick on weights installed as well as find some extra center caps. Maybe find a set of spare springs, and chop some off.

I use that mirror all the time.....then again I have a 126....and they ALL came with both mirrors. :D

I don't have a passenger side mirror on my 240D. I have never missed it, or felt like i needed it. the car has very little blind spots. If it was a 126 it would be a different matter....

sorry but...what is up with that back hub cap? UGLY.

i dont care how many pennies it saves me in gas mileage, i rather be driving a good lookin car
if thats your concern, why dont you just get a honda or something?

give me a MB over a tin can econo box any day. if he can get 35 mpg thats awesome. hes the only one that has to be happy with the looks

Except for my Fintail, every car that I've acquired in the past 7 years either came with righthand mirrors, or I added them. My '60 Fintail 220S doesn't have one, only because I didn't find one to fit it. I added righthand mirrors (with good glass) to both my 240Ds, use them often and wouldn't think about doing without.

Happy Motoring, Mark

totally, although I have a friend with a geo metro xfi with a bad clutch I might be able to buy off him. Either I replace the clutch and just mod that or... make it into an electric car like I have been wanting to do.


have you seen the markup on honda's lately. If you were in the loop last year you would know these 80's diesels were in high demand. Now they are not and high mpg econoboxes are. We'll see who is laughing when my car is doing laps around yours.

plus, the correct term is... wheel cover.