Dimming rear view mirror

thelawnet

I was driving up the M3 in congested conditions last night doing about 50-60mph towards London in the right hand lane. Stuck behind me for many miles was one of those Audis with FU headlights (the ones that are a different colour to normal headlights (LED?) and piercing and distracting).

This was very annoying so in desperation I tried tilting my rear view mirror toward the ceiling of the car so I could no longer see this car's blinding lights. While doing so I found there was a button underneath the mirror, which I pressed and which dimmed the rear-view mirror as well as the driver's side wing mirror, using a sort of green tinge.

This was very effective but unfortunately it did not dim the passenger-side wing mirror, just the driver's side, so I now had a very distracting piercing light on my left. I considered trying to fold the mirror in (electric), but I thought it probably wasn't a good idea, so just tolerated it.

Anyway, does anyone know if this is normal to only dim rear view and driver's wing mirror? Or is my passenger-side wing mirror faulty?

My car is a Volkswagen Eos.

forgotmyname

Faulty or its been replaced at some time with the wrong one.

HID lights. The worse offenders are the people that fit aftermarket HID's with no self levelling.

Sgt_Pepper_2

Why not just pull into lane 2 and let the Audi pass?

retired2011

Why not just pull into lane 2 and let the Audi pass?

I've even started to pull in and let people pass when driving in town.

Lots of fun when you signal left and pull in to the side of the road when there is no obvious reason to do so to the blinding twit behind you.

patman99

I can see the OP has no road sense. The right hand lane is for overtaking. It is not for cruising-down at well below the national speed limit. OP, you were lucky it wasn't a Police car or you could be looking at a ticking-off from a Traffic Cop.

Rolandtheroadie

retired2011 wrote: »

I've even started to pull in and let people pass when driving in town.

Lots of fun when you signal left and pull in to the side of the road when there is no obvious reason to do so to the blinding twit behind you.

Why would the person behind have to work out a reason for you indicating left and stopping?

It's all in your head.

jase1

patman99 wrote: »

I can see the OP has no road sense. The right hand lane is for overtaking. It is not for cruising-down at well below the national speed limit. OP, you were lucky it wasn't a Police car or you could be looking at a ticking-off from a Traffic Cop.

Whilse I agree with the principle, we don't know that this wasn't the prevailing speed of all traffic in all lanes at that time.

thelawnet

patman99 wrote: »

I can see the OP has no road sense. The right hand lane is for overtaking. It is not for cruising-down at well below the national speed limit. OP, you were lucky it wasn't a Police car or you could be looking at a ticking-off from a Traffic Cop.

I see that you can't read.

"I was driving up the M3 in congested conditions last night doing about 50-60mph towards London in the right hand lane."

I was going as fast as was possible.

Notmyrealname

thelawnet wrote: »

I was going as fast as was possible.

Irrelevant. Unless you were overtaking something to your left, the lane to your left should've been the one you were in unless that is the hard shoulder. All other lanes other than the left hand lane are for overtaking, not driving in, not doing 55MPH in L1, 60-70 in L2 and 70+ in L3...overtaking as in passing a vehicle and not staying in passing a vehicle still a mile ahead...

marlot

Although I get really riled by lane hogs, I'm actually on the OP's side here - the M3 towards London is often bumper to bumper, with all three lanes doing 50-60.

photome

retired2011 wrote: »

I've even started to pull in and let people pass when driving in town.

Lots of fun when you signal left and pull in to the side of the road when there is no obvious reason to do so to the blinding twit behind you.

Really ? What makes it lots of fun, you indicate ,pull over, and the car behind goes past. Simples, why should he/she care why you are pulling over