When I got my new 2012 vRS a few weeks ago I was surprised that the drivers side door mirror had a flat glass in it.

I was pretty sure my "old" 2010 car had an aspherical (ie curved) glass so you could more easily spot cars in your blind spot. As I'm no longer a young man I assumed I was just mistaken/stupid but no..! I have access still to the old car and checked it out, and it DOES have the aspherical glass!

Good news is I'm not going senile (well maybe..) but the bad news is I now need to either buy a replacement aspherical mirror glass, OR steal the one off the old car.

Unless it's just mine? Anyone else with a late 2012 vRS - can you check what type yours has? If mine's the only one with the wrong glass I'll go back to the dealer and get it sorted.

TIA.

I think that my Blackline has a flat mirror but seeing as the wife never lets me have the keys to it these days I can't be sure. I'll try and remember to have a looj this evening when she gets back from work.

Took delivery of my vRS on Tuesday and can confirm it has a flat glass...

The Leon i had before had the aspherical piece on the end (with a faint dotted line) but the mirrors on the Octy are quite a lot bigger so i wonder if they think thats sufficient? Are the mirrors the same size? if so it makes no sense other than Skoda saving money !

My elegance has the aspherical glass. It's a 2007 model

My vrs has a curved section at the outer most edge of the drivers glass

my RHD 2011 MY12 has curved glass in the drivers mirror too. I wish I could get one for the passenger side!

My 2013 MY has aspherical glass

I have a flat one that I will be fitting soon, on a plus note it is auto dimming

the side ones auto dim? I thought they were 'tinted' to reduce glare, but not dim like the internal rear vision mirror.

you can have side auto dimming providing you have the Auto dimming rear view interior mirror. It needs to have 2x wires run to each wing mirror

You can tell the wing mirror glass is auto dimming by the outer border on the glass

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I hate coming on this forum. everytime I search I add something to the list to spend money on

thanks for the link!

I blame Ed. I would love auto dimming mirrors as the rear view is brilliant. I always struggle with glare, the wife blames my blue eyes

Mirror glass fitted keeps changing, I am guessing depending on stock, because what you see on the actual cars does not agree with ETKA listings for the period.

6-10 years ago, the default setup on Octavia and Superb was driver side aspheric, passenger side convex.

2012 Roomster had both sides convex, not so great for judging distance when changing lanes. ETKA still listed aspheric/convex pair.

I prefer both sides aspheric as I drive both in the UK and on the Continent. Getting LHD driver's mirror glass was never a problem, but I had to get both sides for the Roomie.

Re auto dimiing mirrors, for a long time I wanted them, then realized that relatively often the rear view mirror gets the dimming wrong and dims too much. Always when a passenger behind me reads a book with a reading light on (that does not bother me at all otherwise). So just as I read here the refit was possible, I decided I do not want them anymore

What would work much better would be auto-dimming mirrors with independent sensors, rather than slaved to cabin rearview mirror.

Edited 25 January, 201313 yr by dieselV6

That's weird then if Eddies MY13 gets aspheric and mine didn't, nigel's didn't... seems a bit random.

Anyhoo, not an issue for me now as I swapped the mirror glass of the old car onto the new one so mine now DOES have aspheric glass

Before I popped the aspheric glass on I took a note of the part number: 4F0 857 536 AF.