No sarkyness now! But setting up eriba ready to go on hols had a major mini mental - which car mirror goes where? is the normal looking one drivers side or passenger side (as in extended caravan mirrors for car) as this is our first outing please forgive this eriba virgin x

What do you mean by 'normal?

My Aero's were identical, except one was left and one right. Depending on where you fitted them i.e. top or bottom of mirror frame they swapped over.

I don't use mirrors with my Puck 120. Its narrower than my car. I think thats legal for me. Ignoring legalities I hated using them with a wider caravan. Shaking reflections drove me mad.

Most ordinary car mirrors can see partially down the side of a caravan, that's not an issue. What extension mirrors provide is a view that meets the legal requirement to be able to see the 4m space from each side of your van at 20m distance. Even with a narrow van and normal car mirrors this is almost impossible to achieve.

Funnily enough my extension mirrors wobbled when I first used them eight years ago, but I learned that they need to be screwed down tightly and then they behaved just like the car mirrors to which they're attached.

If towing in europe ensure you have a convex fitted to the passenger side…..legal requirement apparently…increases your field of view...

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If towing in europe ensure you have a convex fitted to the passenger side…..legal requirement apparently…increases your field of view...

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This is an interesting extract from the document on this page

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...-motor-vehicles

"where the bottom edge of an exterior mirror is less than 2m above the road surface when
the vehicle is laden, that mirror shall not project more than 20cm beyond the overall width of the
vehicle or, if the vehicle is drawing a trailer which is wider than the drawing vehicle, more than
20cm beyond the overall width of the trailer"

So, if your towing a van that's as wide as your car, or less, the mirrors cannot project more than 8ins wider than your car. Does that mean your car's door mirrors, or the width of the car's body. Car manufacturer's don't seem to agree about which measurement is the true width as some quote both and some quote one or the other.

A mirror can't project beyond itself so it must be the width of the vehicle without the mirror. So in my case it would be illegal to fit extension mirrors.

I suggest you ask a traffic policeman.

Width of car and caravan to be taken into account

Therefore, it is according to the width of the towing vehicle, the surface of its original mirrors, and the width of the caravan bodywork that determines whether or not additional mirrors are required. With a folding caravan or narrow body, no problem. If you tow a caravan over 2 m wide with a medium sedan, you have to ask yourself the question.

The above is from the magazine le monde du plein air.

Width of car and caravan to be taken into account

Therefore, it is according to the width of the towing vehicle, the surface of its original mirrors, and the width of the caravan bodywork that determines whether or not additional mirrors are required. With a folding caravan or narrow body, no problem. If you tow a caravan over 2 m wide with a medium sedan, you have to ask yourself the question.


The above is from the magazine le monde du plein air.

And this...if you can understand .....

Version consolidée au 02 juillet 2018
Article 12 Learn more about this article...
Amended by Order of 17 April 1986, art. 1 v. init.
The width and length of the rear-view mirror exceeding the outer dimensions of the vehicle must not be significantly greater than that necessary to comply with the prescribed fields of vision.

Where the lower edge of an exterior rear-view mirror is less than 1,90 m from the ground with the vehicle laden, the rear-view mirror shall not project more than 0,20 m from the end of the overall width on the side of the mirror of the vehicle or of the combination of vehicles not equipped with the rear-view mirror.

Under the above conditions, the overall width of a vehicle equipped with its mirrors may exceed the width by 2.50 metres.