Our Puck is the same width as our car so we are exempt.

Camping & Caravan club mag this month on page 67.
Q. Should extension mirrors be flat or curved?

I have now ordered the flat aero milenco so will see???

Big discussions, some arguments about this at Stratford. I was given a spare pair and grateful for but in the end couldn't fit them properely due to loss of dexterity and strength in fingers and hands. Am still in great doubt, very grey area and as I said above I think I am exempt. To argue this in France however mught be a different situation.

I just checked the C&CC mag pic on page 67. The joint in the horizontal rod looks to be an improvement on the Millenco Aero version but is it just me or is the view in the extension mirror not worth the trouble??? The car mirror seems to show a better view.

So - and maybe a silly question, do we need to have towing mirrors in the UK even if the tow car is the same or wider width than the caravan?

T&C I think not. The french explanation says not needed as long as the caravan is towed by a sutiable vehicle, so in that case, they leave it wide openly in the grey area too.
Who the hell is responsible for a definitve answer?
I have been told that the only way they can test is pull you off road into a set up test with cones, lane and measurments. How often does this happen, trucks maybe. If questioned by a pedantic copper at the roadside, I would be tempted to blag it and show him the spare mirrors in the boot and say sorry I fo got.

Thanks mate.

It's not a case of deciding I can do without them Roger, it's a case of what is legal and if I contravene regs then I don't want to and equally Carole goes nuts about anything about that.

But there is nowhere I can find that states an actual definitve answer. I have just contacted the C&CC for their enswer and await the reply.

What the UK .GOV site says

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Towing mirrors

You must have an adequate view of the road behind you. If your caravan or trailer is wider than the rear of the towing vehicle, you may need to fit suitable towing mirrors.

If you tow without proper towing mirrors you can be:

prosecuted by the police
given 3 points on your licence
fined up to £1,000

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Reference

https://www.gov.uk/towing-with-car/towing-equipment

My take on that.....................a set of mirrors cost less than £1,000

We bought a set of flat Milenco Aero mirrors just before Stratford meet and used them then for the first time. Not sure they were of any use re visibility (the car's own mirrors seem to give a perfectly good view) but they mean there is one less thing for the police to pull you over for.

To be honest most of us spend lots of hard earned cash on a thing of beauty (an Eribanot a wife) why not buy a cheap set of mirrors, put them on and then your covered? If Percy Plod wants to check if they are legitimate he has to have a pretty big unhindered stretch of road and a place to park another vehicle at the required distance and angle, I just think they have more important things to deal with!

It does'nt answer the question but then I live in the real world where "stupid" people make "silly" unenforceable rules and regulations instead of sorting out and educating people with the right way to do it, I call them "educated idiots"

When I was traveling home on the motorway last Sunday the police had pulled over a large double axle Hobby caravan pulled by an average looking estate car, the car looked far to small and narrow compared to the van and it had no towing mirrors....

Quote: Poptop320 wrote in post #29

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When I was traveling home on the motorway last Sunday the police had pulled over a large double axle Hobby caravan pulled by an average looking estate car, the car looked far to small and narrow compared to the van and it had no towing mirrors....

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