I was driving home from work tonight and it was about 35-36*F outside. Needless to say the windows were fogged up all the way around. I really hate driving around in the winter with my mirrors all fogged up all the time. It makes it darn near impossible to see if the cops sneak up behind you. Anyway the question is, is there any way to heat the side mirrors like the way the back hatch glass is done? Perhaps some kind of element behind the mirror? Has anyone ever done this? Just a thought.

Ryan

 

If definitley would be cool......BUT i think the expense associated with it, would be too much and not enough result....

Or you could find a donor mirror and fab something up, but then again, it would be kinda expensive......

 

Ya heated mirrors would be cool. Also, I have a question. Why do some cars mirrors have a blue tint?

 

You mean the rear view mirror? Thats an electrochromic mirror that tints its self so you don't go blind at night from brights.

 

Maybe...

You could find ANY junk yard car with a rear window defog... peel the coils off somehow... cut it and mod it... and wire it to work.
Just take a piece of each side and cut the middle out and solder it together.

That'd probably not be THAT hard to do and COULDN'T be that expensive! Just and idea.

 

semi-trucks have heated mirrors so im shure if u went to a trucking store of a place that repairs them u could find the thing that they use to heat their mirrors. i know its not like our rear defrosters so if u did it this way it wouldent look like some rigged job becasue no one would see it.

 

Actually, I was talking about the side mirrors...is it the same thing?

 

Ummm I dunno I guess that could just be a blue tint to help at night but I dunno if anyone ever made side electrochromic mirrors.

 

This is true, it would be kinda hard to do the rear defog style thing without it looking "rigged." Unless maybe just a wire/coil around the edge, that might be pretty unnoticable, but dunno how well it'd work with just that. I'd imagine a lot of semis have them designed into the mirror into the first place, maybe with the coils behind the glass.

Hmm well, maybe you could put the defog coils on the back... it'd work slower, hopefully not screw up the mirror coating on the back, but it'd be invisible.

Just tossing Ideas out, the more input/crazy ideas on a topic like this the better.

 

If you knew what years & models of cars had heated mirrors, you should be able to locate them in a late-model junk yard.

Or, you can buy new ones...

with LED blinker

or

cheapie $19.95

Just do a search on the internet for "heated mirror"

[edited] A Mercury Sable has power heated mirrors. Here's a source for $59.95. That is an awesome price, and they don't look that bad...

 

I know 89 - 92 vettes have heated side view mirrors and they will bolt right on. Maybe you can find a way to hook them up to your ride.

 

That would be the best way I'm sure. OEM stuff is good to use whenever possible.

 

Sweet....I'm gonna check that out...probably head over to a C4 board and ask around...thanks guys.

Ryan