Why is the Hyundai i20's driver-side ORVM smaller?

wheeledwanderer · 6th July 2021, 10:55

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Originally Posted by Indian2003

My mirrors are different on both sides. The drivers side mirror is horizontal and the passenger side, vertical.

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Wow! Didnt know this existed. Sorry for the ignorance, but what is the logic?

Mr.Boss · 6th July 2021, 12:24

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Originally Posted by wheeledwanderer

Wow! Didnt know this existed. Sorry for the ignorance, but what is the logic?

Logic was already explained in above posts, let me put it simple

Driver side mirror will be longer to accommodate a bigger flat mirror, to have a better field of view for judgements (gap, relative velocity of vehicle behind etc) and also house a convex mirror at the end to address blind spots

Indian2003 · 6th July 2021, 19:42

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Originally Posted by wheeledwanderer

Wow! Didnt know this existed. Sorry for the ignorance, but what is the logic?

I can only guess why. The car is almost 5 meters long and with the passenger side vertical mirror I can see the side of the van. It is very helpful for taking right corners on narrow streets even more while pulling a trailer. You always want to know where your right rear wheel is since I drive on the right side of the road.

In the UK the mirrors are on the opposite sides.

While driving 18 wheelers, I have had incidents when the right mirror got damaged by passing trucks on narrow roads. It felt like I was driving in the blind without the right mirror. I would get them replaced as soon as possible and in crowded streets, had the new mirror delivered to the truck before I could continue.

akg7091 · 8th July 2021, 17:41

Your post made me curious and I checked out my magnite. The ORVMs are slightly different in size and the angle of closure is different as well. Now that I have seen it, I keep noticing this every single time. Driving me insane !

rkw · 11th July 2021, 00:05

Really surprising! I never noticed in any vehicle. So checked my Creta again today. Both are symmetrical & folds together. I guess different tilt was required in older cases of externally adjustable mirrors. With the present generation of electrically adjustable ones, the mirrors are tilted differently as per viewing angle but the outer frames are symmetrical.

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akg7091 BHPian Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Noida Posts: 425 Thanked: 850 Times	Re: Why is the Hyundai i20's driver-side ORVM smaller? Your post made me curious and I checked out my magnite. The ORVMs are slightly different in size and the angle of closure is different as well. Now that I have seen it, I keep noticing this every single time. Driving me insane !
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rkw BHPian Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Pune Posts: 158 Thanked: 128 Times	Re: Why is the Hyundai i20's driver-side ORVM smaller? Really surprising! I never noticed in any vehicle. So checked my Creta again today. Both are symmetrical & folds together. I guess different tilt was required in older cases of externally adjustable mirrors. With the present generation of electrically adjustable ones, the mirrors are tilted differently as per viewing angle but the outer frames are symmetrical.
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