If you have auto-dimming mirrors....
12-09-2003, 11:46 AM
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If you have auto-dimming mirrors....
Does your driver's side view mirror have a slight yellowish or darker coloration than the passenger side?
I noticed my '99 996 Cab (with dimming mirrors), and the driver's sideview simply seems to have yellowed in the past two years. Don't recall this from the beginning.
Anyone else with some age on their cars?
I noticed my '99 996 Cab (with dimming mirrors), and the driver's sideview simply seems to have yellowed in the past two years. Don't recall this from the beginning.
Anyone else with some age on their cars?
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12-09-2003, 01:50 PM
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Maybe this can help, since I have a '99 with dimming mirrors too. During the day the drivers side mirror looks just like the left one, and when it dims it turns a darker greenish-blue tipe color as it dims. I think its the same color as the inside rearview mirror's color when it itself dims.
12-10-2003, 10:53 AM
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Originally posted by Juan
I replaced mine, driver's side, with non-dimming ROW convex and used the last, spare, seat memory setting to tilt both outside mirrors downward ~5 degrees at night.
I replaced mine, driver's side, with non-dimming ROW convex and used the last, spare, seat memory setting to tilt both outside mirrors downward ~5 degrees at night.
12-10-2003, 11:54 AM
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My '03 Targa has self-dimming mirrors. The inside and the left outside mirror seem to have some sort of haze on them compared to the right outside mirror, and compared to mirrors on my other cars. The inside and outside self-dimming mirrors on my X5 are perfectly clear.
I thnk these mirrors are made by Mito/Gentex. The Mito dimming mirror I installed in my BMW M coupe is much clearer than the dimming mirror in the Porsche. I've been looking at the Mito/Gentex website wondering if they're interchangeable with the Porsche mirror. I'd like to get the inside cleared up, and adding the Homelink capability for multiple garage doors would be nice too.
Dwayne
I thnk these mirrors are made by Mito/Gentex. The Mito dimming mirror I installed in my BMW M coupe is much clearer than the dimming mirror in the Porsche. I've been looking at the Mito/Gentex website wondering if they're interchangeable with the Porsche mirror. I'd like to get the inside cleared up, and adding the Homelink capability for multiple garage doors would be nice too.
Dwayne
12-10-2003, 02:06 PM
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Originally posted by dwaynemosley
My '03 Targa has self-dimming mirrors. The inside and the left outside mirror seem to have some sort of haze on them compared to the right outside mirror, and compared to mirrors on my other cars. The inside and outside self-dimming mirrors on my X5 are perfectly clear.
I thnk these mirrors are made by Mito/Gentex. The Mito dimming mirror I installed in my BMW M coupe is much clearer than the dimming mirror in the Porsche. I've been looking at the Mito/Gentex website wondering if they're interchangeable with the Porsche mirror. I'd like to get the inside cleared up, and adding the Homelink capability for multiple garage doors would be nice too.
Dwayne
My '03 Targa has self-dimming mirrors. The inside and the left outside mirror seem to have some sort of haze on them compared to the right outside mirror, and compared to mirrors on my other cars. The inside and outside self-dimming mirrors on my X5 are perfectly clear.
I thnk these mirrors are made by Mito/Gentex. The Mito dimming mirror I installed in my BMW M coupe is much clearer than the dimming mirror in the Porsche. I've been looking at the Mito/Gentex website wondering if they're interchangeable with the Porsche mirror. I'd like to get the inside cleared up, and adding the Homelink capability for multiple garage doors would be nice too.
Dwayne
I'll research this also and post anything I figure out.
12-11-2003, 11:22 AM
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Thanks for the feedback.
I'm well aware of how they work, had 'em for five years. But in the past year or so it seems like the driver's sideview is turning yellowish. Clarity is 100% on either side, so that's no problem. Just coloration - and this is in bright sunlit daytime, not cloudy or evening times.
Looks to me like the chromatics are coloring the glass. Works fine at night either way.
Just wondered.
I'm well aware of how they work, had 'em for five years. But in the past year or so it seems like the driver's sideview is turning yellowish. Clarity is 100% on either side, so that's no problem. Just coloration - and this is in bright sunlit daytime, not cloudy or evening times.
Looks to me like the chromatics are coloring the glass. Works fine at night either way.
Just wondered.
