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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
That's not how they teached me back in the day, but it's how I do it.
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It's how I was taught by my father. They don't teach you that in drivers ed around here. I give my fiance a hard time about it. Whenever I have to drive her car, I adjust her mirrors all the time. She has them pointed to see behind you like an extension of the rear view and I told her just look in your rear view for that. I did about 4-5 of just straight 2 - 3 lane highway driving and being able to see blind spots was a must.
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Originally Posted by Jim Richards
Yep. Even the longhoods that were optioned with the right side mirror were asymmetrical.
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I had to look up images for the cars on google. Looks like if the car was altered in anyway the owner made it symmetrical.
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Originally Posted by livi
Incredible that I have not noticed this during the almost ten years of ownership. We obviously have not been intimate enough.  |
That needs to change, because you have to know the slightest hint of when your baby gets sick.
I grew up with a tool maker/robotics engineer so having an eye for placement and symmetry comes as a curse. I can't believe I didn't notice it earlier, I always have felt off about the passanger side of my car but for the longest time couldn't put my finger on it. Yesterday I drove home from work and pulled up to the garage and sat there for a minute just to unwind and think about a few things while the car was just purring at an idle. I mainly thought about when to change the oil for the colder season. Then I looked over at the mirror, not into to see the reflection but at the actual mirror. That's when I noticed it's placement, I looked back at the driver side and was like "WTF?" I got out to look at the car from the outside and thats when my dad popped his head out of the back door, "What's wrong?" I yelled back, "Some genius F'ed my mirror up and put it in the wrong spot!" Then I started thinking about porsche and how they do some things intentionally sometime and thought this may have been done on purpose.