Quick question on the "electrically adjustable, folding, auto-dimming" mirrors option, £210 on the VRS:

 

1.     I assume that when you lock the car the mirror units fold inwards automatically?

2.     (this is the important one)… but can you also electrically fold the mirrors when the engine is running? So if I want to fold the mirrors so I can fit the car in my (slim) garage door, can I do that? It's no use to me as an option if all it does is fold the mirrors when the car is locked.

 

I would ask the dealer, but they don't have a clue. They fold me that electronically folding mirrors were standard on a VRS, which they are not.

 

Thanks!

I have Electric Folding mirrors on my Pre FL 230. You can fold them in by using the switch on the drivers door whilst the engine is on.  In the winter months my wing mirrors don't fold in ( Turn off auto fold in the Car settings ) So they don't freeze in the folded position. 

 

Hope that helps

Yes you can fold the mirrors in while the engine is running, or indeed when the car is moving. At least you can on mine though mine is an older model. There's a switch on the selector - I often use it when passing trucks on a particularly narrow bridge near me.

 

Edited 22 February, 20197 yr by vRSWitter

You can’t fold them in at 30 mph though  there’s a cut off. Parking and manoeuvring speeds will be fine to fold them in.

1 hour ago, vRSWitter said:

Yes you can fold the mirrors in while the engine is running, or indeed when the car is moving. At least you can on mine though mine is an older model. There's a switch on the selector - I often use it when passing trucks on a particularly narrow bridge near me.

 

Useful stuff everyone, thanks. 

 

Does the ringed switch above move both mirrors in at the same time? (or can you choose just to fold one of them?)

1 hour ago, SashaGrace said:

You can’t fold them in at 30 mph though  there’s a cut off. Parking and manoeuvring speeds will be fine to fold them in.

 

Did not know that ... do now

7 minutes ago, Brackett said:

Useful stuff everyone, thanks. 

 

Does the ringed switch above move both mirrors in at the same time? (or can you choose just to fold one of them?)

 

Does both at the same time, just like when you lock the car.

1 hour ago, vRSWitter said:

 

Does both at the same time, just like when you lock the car.

Brilliant - that's a definite options box ticked for me then! 

 

Order hopefully going in over the next few days - only a 3 month wait then... 

10 minutes ago, Brackett said:

Brilliant - that's a definite options box ticked for me then! 

 

Order hopefully going in over the next few days - only a 3 month wait then... 

 

I've had them on the last car and this one and they do indeed fold in, which is quite useful, not useful when it snows and freezes hard though as they can get stuck, but a squirt of deicer releases them.

 

Don't bank on a 3 month wait though, mine came through in about 6 weeks! 

5 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

You can’t fold them in at 30 mph though  there’s a cut off. Parking and manoeuvring speeds will be fine to fold them in.

 

Obviously people with excellent eyesight and width perception don't need electrically folding mirrors....at speed...

46 minutes ago, Redboy said:

 

Obviously people with excellent eyesight and width perception don't need electrically folding mirrors....at speed...

If your eyesight is that good, you won't need wing mirrors at all as, you'll have eyes in the back of your Fn head or, is that just wive's

25 minutes ago, themanwithnoaim said:

If your eyesight is that good, you won't need wing mirrors at all as, you'll have eyes in the back of your Fn head or, is that just wive's

 

No, you definitely need eye's in the back of your head, especially in London and several major cities, as you're likely to get a real knife in your back. rather than a metaphorical one. 

18 minutes ago, TheWanderer said:

 

No, you definitely need eye's in the back of your head, especially in London and several major cities, as you're likely to get a real knife in your back. rather than a metaphorical one. 

Known a few girls that needed a stab in back but, only cos they were too ugly to face !!!

Go to Bridge Street Friday & Saturday night and you'll know what ugly is.

 

Or as we know it, a mass break out from Battersea...