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LROI - Defender with extra mirrors...

I was looking through this months LROI for some explanation of the picture in the previous issues article about where you can take a bog standard 90 ('How Deep, How Steep). One of the pictures clearly shows the 90 approching the reader with a second door-mirror on the drivers side...?

Why? How?

I assume it's another of those photographs where they've been playing around with photo-shop, making the mud look deeper and the slope look steeper. It's now my standard approach to line up the trees in their photos with the vertical and then assess what sort of gradient the vehicle was REALLY on!

Is it useful for rear seat passengers to be able to see what's coming up behind?

Cheers,

M.

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McBad
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I was going to take a look but I can't seem to lay my hands on my copy right now. I know a thing ot two about touching-up photographs.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

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Mr.Nice.

Can't lay my hands on a copy right now but might it be to give the driver a view down to the rear wheel or down at the verge on his side? Might not look much of an angle in the pic but could be enough to help the driver without having to move the normal mirror.

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wayne

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I dont know what it is either, but its not in any other shots.

So i can only assume that its a vehicle behind, or some muppets left a layer showing in Photoshop....

Mark.

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Mark Solesbury

Under the Title of Side Slopes there is a pic of what looks like the same LR taken from a different angle, can't quite see if it is in that pic? It almost looks like the pic with it in is another vehicle behind it.

Tell you what though, that close up of the driver looks uncannily like me, but he has more hair.

Anyway, don't know what the fuss is about, magazines never make anything up...

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wayne

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I drive a LHD Defender 130 and have put an extra one under the right-hand mirror for my front passenger to use.

I took an old caravan towing extension mirror that I used on my Discovery. It's mounted down rather than out, as designed.

It works quite well and being lower has the advantage that it's below the window for the driver.

We both drive on and off road, and found the loss of the internal windscreen mirror (we added a second one for the passenger) a problem.

It would also work on a RHD as well.

Reg.

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Reg

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