I want to remove my side view mirrors (2006 Toyota corolla) and put mirrors the inside (pic related). This will reduce drag and increase MPG / performance.
Any type of universal mirrors that would be compatible to fit or that I could make to fit like pic related to mount inside my car?
For MPG you're better off losing weight. Widebody driver in a streamlined car.
I have been doing this. I do a lot of highway, and removing mirrors boosts MPG by like ~3% I think. Aero is better for highway, weight gets base bang for stop n go traffic but both are good.
I currently have all the seats removed except the drivers seat for utility / sleeping in car.
>removing mirrors boosts MPG by like ~3% I think
Most definitely not.
3% is probably wrong, but Musk did say that the external side mirrors were one of the biggest sources of drag for his cars.
Musk is a bumbling moron
there is defnitly something to it, on new high end ev's they ditched the mirrors for side mount cameras to boost range
it's pretty plausible. at a steady highway speed, practically all of the energy is going into aero drag, and mirrors are exactly the wrong shape to be low drag
just bash it off and jb weld it to the inside
Don't be surprised if you have to fight a ticket in court because some butthole cop.
>This will reduce drag and increase MPG / performance.
Unless you fabricate a plastic cover to cover up the rough jagged gap left by removing the mirror, you will not gain anything.
If you need to be spoon-fed where to buy a pre-made interior mirror then you do not have the skills to make a cover.
>you need a college degree to put duct tape over a hole
>A standard rearview mirror, with mounting brackets, set was found to exhibit a drag coefficient, based on the glass area, of 1.81, which would increase the drag of a typical (Cd = 0.7, Af = 4.5m2) truck by about 8.5 percent. A teardrop-shaped accessory mirror, although appearing more streamlined, actually produced a higher glass-based drag coefficient of 1.94, adding about 10 percent to the truck drag. A recent fully-faired mirror set performed best, with a glass-area-based drag coefficient of only 1.13, making up only 5.3 percent of the typical total aerodynamic truck drag.
I bet if you got something like pic you wouldn't even need side mirrors. That being said you should just buy a 125cc moped/motorcycle. They can easily get 130mpg+
I don't really care what kind of mirrors you use.
But for the love of pete, please set them up correctly.
If you can see the side of you fricking car - you have them set up Wrong!
>taking the mirror view from the front passenger seat
Not at all, you want to see the edge of your car to reduce the blind spot.
>you want to see the edge of your car to reduce the blind spot.
you actually have less of a blind spot by pushing the mirror further out and Not seeing the edge of your car. Give it a try sometime.
Drivers manuals almost always recommend beginning drivers to aim the side mirrors so they can see the edge of their own vehicle, and this helps to keep brand new drivers oriented.
But with the mirror at this angle, passing cars will go from being visible in your mirror to being invisible in your blind spot, then they appear in your peripheral vision.
With the mirror angled a little farther out, cars go from being visible in your side mirror to being visible in your peripheral vision, without really going through a blind spot at all. I admit however that this configuration isn't good when you don't have a rearview mirror, like in a panel van. In that case, you'd be better off with the more common configuration plus a fish eye mirror.
>"you actually have less of a blind spot by pushing the mirror further out and Not seeing the edge of your car. "
agree with this.
It took me a few days to embrace this configuration of my side mirrors pushed further out.
But now, I realize it's the only way to avoid the blind spots on either side of the car.
The other solution is to add the little fisheye mirrors to either side. But I really don't care for this option.
Youtube has lots of vids that show the correct way to set them up.
Once you employ this technique, you'll will wonder how you got by in the past without side swiping other cars.
it's a joke? Please! tell me it's a joke!
>eliminate side mirrors to save money on gas
>get ticketed for no side mirrors and have to fork out hundreds plus put the mirrors back on
Anyone here tried camera alternatives, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cQ0um8FJA ?