Elio Motors Shreveport Operations (extended Cut)

[pistonboy]

Speaking of mirrors.... I have these on both our cars and wouldn't live without them. They are especially good for seeing someone if you have a "blind spot".

The little mirror shows the same thing as the big mirror, only smaller.

No advantage. It just gets in the way of the big mirror.

 

[Coss]

The little mirror shows the same thing as the big mirror, only smaller.

No advantage. It just gets in the way of the big mirror.

You've never driven with one then; it shows a much wider field of view in all directions including downward.

 

[Sethodine]

The little mirror shows the same thing as the big mirror, only smaller.

No advantage. It just gets in the way of the big mirror.

I was confused by the image at first; the picture is of the Driver side mirror, although the angle seems to tell my eye that it is the passenger side mirror.
The small mirror doesn't show much different on the inboard-side of the field of view, but the outboard-side the small mirror shows a far wider angle than the large mirror.

 

[W. WIllie]

I have a set on my G1 and I like them. A little hard to get used to at first. The ones I have are also adjustable to get a further outward view.

 

[Gizmo]

Simply... Instigator.

lol.. I thought it was Nasty Gator!

 

[Coss]

I was confused by the image at first; the picture is of the Driver side mirror, although the angle seems to tell my eye that it is the passenger side mirror.
The small mirror doesn't show much different on the inboard-side of the field of view, but the outboard-side the small mirror shows a far wider angle than the large mirror.

Could that be why every new car that comes out has a convex outside mirror on the right (passenger) side of the car? That's all those little mirrors are; convex mirrors [Warning! Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear]
And as per Wiki = The phrase "objects in (the) mirror are closer than they appear" is a safety warning that is required[1] to be engraved on passenger side mirrors of motor vehicles in the USA, Canada and India. It is present because while these mirrors' convexity gives them a useful field of view
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objects_in_mirror_are_closer_than_they_appear

 

[JK]

Speaking of mirrors.... I have these on both our cars and wouldn't live without them. They are especially good for seeing someone if you have a "blind spot".

I don't care for them myself. I drove a rental a while back that had them. At night the bright headlights from behind bug me. Plain side mirrors I adjust down a bit but with these I couldn't get the lights out of my eyes.

 

[Ty]

I don't care for them myself. I drove a rental a while back that had them. At night the bright headlights from behind bug me. Plain side mirrors I adjust down a bit but with these I couldn't get the lights out of my eyes.

because they are convex, the lights from behind are not bright at all in the vehicles I've driven. I suppose if you had a sensitivity though, it could be tough. I put them on every vehicle I buy if they don't already have them. On my truck, they came stock and are very large. I hardly use the regular mirrors any more. Those convex ones just provide so much more valuable information. I'm always amazed when I get in a vehicle where the previous driver had the mirrors adjusted to see the side of the car we are driving. Why do you need to see your own car? Madness, I tell ya!

In a funny anecdote, my daughter was having trouble with her 2001 Prius... needed tires, actually. Well, it was just before a trip across country when we moved and she swore her car "Can't go highway speeds". She was really wrong but was just afraid to make the engine rev up any at all. ANYWAY, it was night and I was taking it on a test drive. I reached up and flipped the mirror lever for night time driving (you know, that thing that aims the primary mirror up towards the ceiling) and she was just shocked. Apparently, she'd been driving for a year without realizing that she could dim lights behind her. I consider it a monumental car guy/dad failure and just plain funny.

 

[saltydog72]

Amazon has thousands of heated mirror replacement heads.
Since 90% of the parts on the Elio are "off the shelf" parts, you can spend the time to find out what the mirrors are from and buy a heated replacement head to use in it's place. Or find something close and use it.
Why wouldn't EM do this? Cost; right now part of the battle is meeting the $6,800 price tag.
Offer it as an option? Great idea, make sure to contact them and ask them to add it too the list.
Sounding off about it here won't get it to the list.[/QU
Coos I have contacted Eilo through email never got a response,not trying make it sound like that.just wondering what other people's thoughts were.

 

[Coss]

That's a new one; Coos. Usually people do Cross until they've been corrected a few times.

What email address did you use to contact EM?
If you did it through the EM page, and clicked "contact Support" they're usually pretty good about answering.
A couple of other address to use are:

Emails:
tellmemore@eliomotors.com
orders@eliomotors.com
support@eliomotors.zendesk.com
https://reservations.eliomotors.com/customer/account/

Tellmemore works well, or use the support@ address here for a more direct address.