rwdean16

I have a 2020 Karoq, which I bought second-hand. I didn't realise that it has a rear view mirror that automatically dips / darkens the mirror when it thinks that the driver is being dazzled. Every other car that I have ever owned has had a driving mirror with a little tag at the bottom that you push / pull to dip the mirror when you want the mirror to be darker. The problem is that the automatic dipping mechanism does not always dip the mirror when I want it to be dipped. I am sensitive to bright lights so I don't like being dazzled by a car behind me. This can even happen in daylight with some of the ridiculously bright headlights that some cars have these days. The problem can occur when the mirror believes it is daylight so it does not dip the mirror even though I would do so if it was a manually dipping mirror. Another example is when I am driving at night along a road that has humps on it. Every time the car behind goes over a hump the automatic dipping mechanism does not respond fast enough so I get flashed by that car's headlights. As a human being, I know that each time the car behind me goes over a hump that I will be dazzled by its headlights, so if I had a good old-fashioned manually dipping driving mirror then I would set it to the dipped position while I was driving the whole length of that road so that I would not be disturbed by the lights of the car behind me. But, the modern, over complicated "automatically dipping" mirror doesn't know that I am about to be dazzled, so it waits until I am dazzled and then reacts when it is too late. So, I asked 3 Skoda dealers about replacing the automatically dipping mirror with a manual version. They all said that they didn't know how, or even if, it could be done! So, I wrote to Skoda UK and they were even more useless because they told me to go to a Skoda dealer! The Skoda dealers all wanted to know my car's registration number, but all that does is bring up the one option for driving mirrors for my particular car i.e. an automatically dipping mirror, which is no use when I need a manually dipping mirror. As I understand it, there are/were Karoq manufactured with a manually dipping mirror fitted, but they appear to have a different mechanism for attaching the mirror to the windscreen. I had hoped that I could just buy the actual mirror piece itself and push it into the same ball and socket joint that is attached to the windscreen. I am sorry for the long post, but I am hoping that someone will have some experience with changing driving mirrors in a Skoda, or else some ideas of who I can ask for help to actually find a working replacement mirror that I can fit to my Karoq please. Thank you