How to Properly Set Your Side Mirrors

[christianlynch]

I adjusted my mirrors this way and now the rear of my car ran away. Thanks a lot.

[willb]

There’s one very important thing that I wished he touched on: the purpose of side mirrors is to see what your rear view mirror cannot see. To set them properly and to ensure you don’t create 2 blind spots by setting them too far, set them to where there is just a little bit of overlap with the rear view mirror for each side view mirror.

[MrKen-wydk]

I'm still worried the the rear of my car will drop off if I don't keep an eye on it.

[tessrachel]

This clarified a lot of my confusion on the road..i was setting the mirrors wrong and used to get confused as through the mirrors i kept seeing lanes behind me (same lane as my car) and never could judge which one is where i am going to move into. This video solved that for me.. adjusting mirrors is the most important and my instructors never taught the right position.. they always adjust your mirror but doesnt give tell you how.. thanks a ton for this video.

[foolspuffy]

i have a drivers test tomorrow and i just got so paranoid so here i am

update: i passed driving first time and hit the cone FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER on maneuverability on the test. passed it second time tho shxjxj

[FierceChic]

I used this video and had to come back and say a big ‘Thank You’!!! I had been concerned about my side mirrors and didn’t feel comfortable changing lanes. Yesterday I changed lanes and almost ran a man off the road. I searched YouTube and found this video. I am sooo confident now. I see everything I need to see! Thanks again!!❤️

[fatalexcerpts]

Been doing this around 15 years or so. What might be even easier an explaination on how to set the sideviews out is to first adjust your rearview to see the entire back window. Then tilt the sideviews out so as soon as the rearview field ends your sideviews begin; if you set them out a little further you run the risk of having small blinds between the rear and sideviews for cyclists or pedestrians, which is why I prefer to leave no gap at all. Anyway, you can test your setup with objects in your background view to be sure you're catching everything. The guy in this video is right though, if you've done this right then as soon as the cars disappear from your sideview mirrors (as they're begining to overtake your position on the sides) you should be able to see their front bumper come into your side windows, or peripheral view. But be mindful of overlapping the mirror fields as well, as conversely they can cause a small blind directly on the side of your vehicle.

[WaynePilot]

This is the correct way to adjust those especially side mirrors. I'm happy that I've been setting up like this for quite a while.

[Jaisean]

0:43 “you see what’s been missing, another car” 🤣🤣🤣 this popped up in my recommendations after watching chrisfix videos. Glad I watched it lol

[janetstone]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU You did a brief EXCELLENT instruction on this. You placed the side/rear cars in the perfect spot, and moved the side mirrors to the absolute correct angles. YOU NAILED IT! I am a Driver's Ed Teacher for 19 years, and this is exactly what the TX Ed. Agency taught us to begin teaching this in 2003 (kind of a DUH moment eh!) Now I can share this with my THANK YOU THANK YOU .

[trackstar]

Totally worked and helped me teach my daughter. I’ve been driving almost 30 years. Big change. Thanks.

[cjc]

I saw this tip about 15 years ago on a local tv newscast (a car segment). I had been setting my mirrors down the side. Afterwards, it took a few days to get used to it, but it made it unnecessary to swivel my head around. Since then I can see with my peripheral vision (especially at night) when a car comes up on my rear quarter panel. And like the presenter said, as soon as it leaves the mirror, the car is coming into my side window. This actually does shrink the blind spots way down when done properly.

[CallMeGameGirl]

Omg, Now lane changing wont be so stressful for me. I had my mirrors too inwards like that and looking into the side mirrors stress me out, coz too much is going on in the view lol. thank you for this video! haha

[chaoticmindz]

Thank you for this video I recently started driving and the way I'm driving teacher told me how to adjust my mirror it was a little uncomfortable for me because I couldn't really see what I needed to and then I used this method and it worked really great

[rga]

I learn to drive (I'm at 42 hours) and today I had a very dangerous situation. I drove on a dual carriageway and we were behind a pretty slow lorry. I wanted to change lane and the traffic was high. I saw a blue car behind me, that was a little bit faster than me but I saw behind the blue care came a silver car and there is a big gap and the silver car is very far. I thought I will change lane after the blue car.
I saw the side mirror again and the blue car disappeared. I signaled to the right and if my instructor doesn't yell at me then I do an accident, because the blue car was beside me.
Later we talked about this situation and I realised that blue car really disappeared for few second.
I thought about it later and I realised I set my side mirrors to wrong position every time and because of it the blind spot is very big. I started to search on the Youtube and I found this video (and much more) and I learned from it how can I set my side mirrors to the correct position. Thanks very much.

[GretSeat]

Glad I found this video. My fiance adjusts her mirrors so she "sees just the back of her car" but I have told her over and over, in driving school you're supposed to see blindspots not your back.
As they told me "your side mirrors are not an extension of your rear view mirror" and it's true. They have wide mirrors for that.

I adjust my mirrors so I can see the lane next to me, and then out of the corners of my eye the cars next to me. Never once have I had to "shoulder check" because as driving school told me again, it takes just a split second for someone to slam their brakes or someone to cut you off.

So now I can show her this video.

[SternDrive]

I've been teaching my students this correct mirror adjustment method for years, with only one change.  I teach my students that even if they like birds, airplanes and sky,   that is NOT what their side  mirrors are for.  Please get it down to where the action is. You want to see traffic only.  Maximize your field of view.

[NABEREZHNAUSA]

I love this simple and easy to follow advice!
Great channel!

[MrFancyPantsMan]

I don't have a family always willing to give simple advice like this

Thanks, guys!

[redladybug]

My issue is seeing parking lines and curbs when reversing