I need wider mirrors
Cargo Master
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I tow a Vnose 101" x 16ft trailer and have no issues with the mirrors. I tow in downtown Boston,Interstates,rural areas. I put many thousands of miles a year with it as I use it for work. If you extend them further would it put them out past the legal width allowed? also bad enough now they almost get clipped by other vehicles and bicycles.
Mirrors are an "appurtenance" and not included in the truck width for highway regs.
The fact that your trailer is 16' long is why they work OK for you.
Add another 20-25 feet and you quickly see how you lose visibility at the end of the trailer.
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No. Mirrors are exempt from max legal width. Except CA I think are limited to 20" over 102".
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Props to user pjcinmi for sending me this in a PM last night.
Power Fold Fix for $5 - Ford Powerstroke Diesel Forum
It's the link I was trying to find on here but forgot that it wasn't even from this forum. Hah.
It doesn't tell you how to make them wider but it show a little about how to take them apart and I can take it from there.
Power Fold Fix for $5 - Ford Powerstroke Diesel Forum
It's the link I was trying to find on here but forgot that it wasn't even from this forum. Hah.
It doesn't tell you how to make them wider but it show a little about how to take them apart and I can take it from there.
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I know that I had to fully extend mine to see behind the boat, buy I couldn't imagine the mirrors being any wider than they are fully extended. I would think if they were any wider you'd have more chances of smacking mirrors with another driver on the backroads. I smacked mirrors with a toyota about a week after I bought my truck. Knocked the bulbs clean out of the light, but didn't damage anything else. Other guy not so lucky though, his entire mirror landed in the bed of my truck. Served him right for driving drunk, and he's lucky he didn't get his a$$ beat.
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I'll go check, but can our mirrors be pushed a little further forward? Right now they are angled back just a bit I think. If you can push the housing an inch forward it will change the angle and by adjusting the mirror back to you it might give you wider sight line?