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Wind/rain

Postby loot » Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:39 pm

Driving in the rain today and the rain hitting the drivers quarter glass was so much that I couldn't see any traffic in the mirror which I thought was a bit sh*t, then I thought of wind deflectors but then they only cover the side class don't they :?

Does anyone do a full deflector for the quarter area?
Any thoughts on this chaps?
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Re: Wind/rain

Postby Mike » Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:00 pm

I just use Rain-X on the side windows, problem solved without adding pikey tat that pikeys will pinch :D
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Re: Wind/rain

Postby loot » Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:03 pm

:lol: fair enough 8)

Tbh I didn't think of that but will get on the shopping site now, cheers :-)
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Re: Wind/rain

Postby bigjohnthomas » Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:05 pm

I just slow down to 70 till it clears up a bit
Did a bit of sliding going up the A1 when it was pissisting it down today though parrrrrrrrrrp
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Re: Wind/rain

Postby loot » Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:45 pm

Well a guy barged me over to the right lane see and I had to squint up to the window to see for cars behind, could have gone wrong.

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Re: Wind/rain

Postby ned » Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:54 pm

Ah you see you need some kind of heating and or wiping device on the 1/4 windows :wink: little wipers like you used to get on headlights would work.

Or better still a small camera in each mirror with a screen inside now that would be funky wouldn't it. N
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Re: Wind/rain

Postby bigjohnthomas » Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:33 pm

A dwarf installed in the mirror could just stick it's arm out and wipe it
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Re: Wind/rain

Postby twin wheel camper » Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:10 pm

loot wrote:Well a guy barged me over to the right lane see and I had to squint up to the window to see for cars behind, could have gone wrong.

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That reminds me a number of years ago I was driving a 7.5T lorry with no heated mirrors and at about 5 or6 am in the winter (frozen mirrors) I came up behind another lorry on the motorway but I couldn’t see if anything was passing me :x I was tempted to just pull out and the odds are you would be ok that time of the morning not many on n Ireland’s roads :oops:
Lucky I didn’t because a bloody big jaguar I think it was went past me at about 100+ mph and if I had of pulled out he would of being killed no doubt about it and yours truly would of being 100% to blame :shock:
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Re: Wind/rain

Postby loot » Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:04 pm

Can't risk it :-( I've literal just got back from a minor bump, I got boxed in ff so only thing I could do was go side on but I didn't see the woman in the mk7 right up my ass and I nudged her :? Ppl don't give you enough room to make mistakes do they.

Probably get a Simmons to court now for the 15 passengers with whiplash and her psychological treatments in the swiss Alps :|
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