[jack]

I never thought about it so I just sat in the driver’s seat and looked at the mirrors.

Maybe it is the position of my seat, but I have very little choice of where the mirrors are with relation to the windshield post or side of the coach. If I try to get some space between the mirror and the post I have to swing the arm forward and then the post starts to block the view. A longer arm would cure the problem, but working with what I have for arm length on both sides and my seat position I don’t have a lot of movement available to me.

[Peter]

Tom and Jon,

From the picture, our mirror arm is positioned very close to the side of the coach. I’m not at the coach right now but I think the side of the mirror is less than 6 inches from the driver’s window.

We do get a little vibration but not bad. We had vibration from our Monaco mirrors also, I would say it’s about the same.

The position of the arm will reflect the sun sometimes. I was thinking of putting a piece of black tape on the top of the arm to cure the problem.

Mark

[Larry & Diane]

I have very little vibration and there might be some reasoning to my madness. I have the mirror itself adjusted all the way over on the outerside of the housing the mirror sits in. If you turn your inside button all the way to the left so the mirror is almost resting on the housing edge I get very little vibration.

When your mirror is in the middle of the housing it can move all over, by having it almost resting on the side of the housing it has some resistance.

Are you following me driver?

Later

bv

[Fred F.]

My mirrors hardly move at all , I will check why!!!

[Charles]

You guys need to be a little more clear if the mirror or the bracket is vibrating. If your assembley is vibrating there could be a couple other causes.

Later

bv

[Archived]

The mirror housing and arm are rock solid. The vibration from wind turbulence is because the piece of crap mirror is mounted to a plastic motor and gears I’m told, haven’t had one apart. Every bus I’ve owned has this problem.

You may be on to something Bernie, that may be a good way to get more support, I’ll give it a try.

[Archived]

Tom

I was getting
road noise because of the mirror position on the driver side of the coach. I
check with my next door he has a 2013 Liberty, his mirror is one finger width
from the drive side window. I repositioned my driver mirror, the noise level
significantly improved.

[glen]

Tom, no bad vibrations on my old, engraved housing Country Coach mirrors. Now my 1974 Harley Superglide, there were good vibrations. No amount of adjusting mirror positions helped. The vibrations were motor case mounted directly to frame without insulating rubber mounts. The mirrors vibrated so much a lower speeds the only thing you could tell was that “something” was approaching. Identifying the vehicle was an impossibility between 10 – 65 MPH. Beyond 65 MPH the mirrors became absolutely stable. So most of my interstate hours when double nickles was the norm were spent above 65. One more thing, the exhaust note on that old 1200 (74 cubic inches) into a single banana pipe was also something to listen to, in fact it was the only thing you could listen too at speed!

[glen]

Riding a Harley must be like the old Jerry Lee Lewis song………”You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain”

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!

[glen]

Jon that is a really early rock and roll song. Is there any truth to the rumor that the lyrics were written by the Lennon Sisters after a party with Jerry Lee Lewis?

The Beach Boys had the title lyrics in as one of their songs. Much better than Shake Rattle and Roll.

[Joanne]

My mirrors don’t move (vibrate) at all. Think it’s all the rivets in the coach keeping things tight.

Will, bought me a 74 cu. in. Superglide in 1976 before all the Harley fad hit. Kept it 4 years and sold it with 1200 miles on it to a friend and he’s still got it in his garage. Had to sell mine cause I couldn’t keep the filling in my teeth. Kept shaking them out. Drove a friends 2010 around the block and that thing was smooth. You could even see out the mirrors.

[Archived]

[Archived]

Jerry,

If you adjust the mirror from one side of the bracket or other you have to loosen the arm and adjust it accordingly.

Later

bv

[Tradewinds Coach & Marine]

Jerry,

This is just an observation, but anytime a driver uses his mirrors to judge where he is in his lane he is apt to be wandering all over the lane and over working the steering wheel.

I don’t know how this works, but by looking far ahead down your lane of traffic you end up tracking exactly where you need to be in the lane, and your peripheral vision verifies your position. In my coach, based on where my seat is positioned the edge markings or the dotted centerline pass relative to a point where my windshield post intersects the dash that my peripheral vision recognizes as where I need the coach to be within the lane of traffic.

Hard to explain except to say I follwed a friend who I later found was using his mirrors to judge his position, and he was all over the lane and wearing himself out working the steering wheel.

Maybe others can explain it better than I have.

Apart from using the mirrors to back up I use them to verify what is going on in adjacent lanes of traffic so I know if I can or cannot make a lane change suddenly. Never to determine where I am in the lane.

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Tradewinds Coach
Kyle Bennett (Service)
Brian Miller (Sales)

[Andre]

I have no need to use the mirrors to determine where I am within the lane. My wife does an outstanding job of that from the co-pilots seat. She is quicker than the speed of light of light and more accurate than a laser to let me know when I’m too far over to the right (whether I actually am or not).