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Auto Dimming Mirrors.... Kinda Dark
- Thread starter EV-lutioin
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Honestly, just buy a replacement rear view mirror. Not only do you get rid of the dimming, but you get a much better field of view depending on what you get. A lot of people in this forum recommended Broadway (which was also highly rated on Amazon), so I bought one and its been working great.
241mm is the exact amount of space between the sun shades. So you want to get a 240mm replacement
Regular, flat:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0068G4KJC
Regular, Convex:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006G62HUI
Type-A, convex:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0068G4LDC
Type-A, flat:
https://www.amazon.com/Broadway-Type-Rear-Mirror-240mm/dp/B003VL947U/
Type-A is aluminum, which supposedly sees better through tinting, if you have any in the rear. I chose to do regular since I do want a little dimming from my 30% tint.
Regular vs convex: Convex you will be able to see the rear sides a bit more. But due to the thick pillars of the 3, it wouldn't make a difference, so I went with flat so what I see wouldnt be distorted.
I initially bought a 300mm convex, type-a and it was overkill. I couldn't put down my passenger sunshade. You may be able to get away with the 270mm
Installation was an easy clip on. Negatives is that it does have some shakiness (but no rattle). Still a worthwhile trade off to get rid of the terrible dimming.
Thanks. I want no dimming and the least amount of distortion so I think the type A regular would be best for me. Is 240 mm the closest size to the stock mirror?
My first purchase was the 300mm Type-A convex but was way too large and wasnt a fan of the convex mirror. The one I settled with was the 240 flat, regular. I put them both beside each other and I can barely tell a difference in brightness - the Type-A was maybe a tiny bit brighter. YMMV, I have 30% tint on the rear window.
bradtem
Robocar consultant
I presume from what you folks are saying that it's very obvious figuring out how to pop the mirror back on after you have popped it off? They should do this for you at the Tesla service center just to keep it all under warranty.
DNorris89
Member
Just an update, I did the chrome delete on my car this weekend and decided to disconnect the auto dim feature as well. Very easy and straight forward. Pull the cap off from the furthest point away from the car. Then gently pull the mirror off the housing applying even pressure not to break the glass. Then simply disconnect the wire and tape it off. Everything snaps back together very easy. No warning lights or anything once disconnected and its 100% easier to see at night now.
Just got the Broadway Type A flat 240 mirror. Noticeably bigger and squarer than stock. Looks a little out of place. BUT, so much easier to see at night. Absolutely worth it. I can actually see a car at night. Now I need to get up the nerve to take apart and disable the side mirrors. Come on Elon, just give us the ability to disable them in the settings.
Trust in yourself and just pull on the mirror to pop it off. All the snap on/off components are durable and can handle the force.
I unplugged my rear view mirror, but on the side mirrors, it’s still too dark, even with the windows rolled down! I saw a video where you can see 2 major cables that go from the door to the mirror (you have to unplug these to change the mirror assembly). Can anyone confirm that the smaller bunch of wires (I think it was red) powers the mirror dimmer? If I can’t unplug these wires, I was thinking of replacing the side mirror glass with a non dimming version. I found a 3rd party one that will make these to order. They will even make those European aspherical ones, which would fix my issue with not being able to move my mirror out far enough to do ‘proper’ blind spot prevention.
Howd you unplug the rear view mirror? Got a videe on how to do that?
For the side mirrors, see my post:
Auto Dimming Mirrors.... Kinda Dark
DNorris89
Member
I simply followed Ranova's post: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/3314759/
Its really easy and made a huge difference.
Its really easy and made a huge difference.
NJturtlePower
Living the Dream, Driving the Future!
Highly rated at 3-5 reviews each on Amazon?
Any Model 3's have installed pictures?
The 300mm (which is linked) is the most popular broadway and it has 333 reviews, 4.5 star average. The other ones are less popular and thus less reviews and/or are from a different seller.
Additionally, its the primary replacement rear view mirror that has been suggested for Model S, X, etc on Tesla forums who dislike the auto dimming or size of the stock
For those of you who don't want to take your mirror apart, Tesla will be creating a software update for this in the (hopefully near) future.
Any details on it? Just on/off or will it allow setting a dimming percentage? Control of side-view separate from rear view?
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