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Best Blind Spot Mirrors You Can Buy in 2018

Improve your car's safety with these blind spot mirrors.

By Arnold SeleskeyPublished 6 years ago 5 min read
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Blind spot mirrors are honest to goodness life savers. They help even the most skilled and experienced drivers avoid colliding with other drivers, and are a great way to navigate any roadways in a far safer manner. Yet, as is the case with just about any product you can name, not all are alike or equal in performance or design and function. Yes, most are meant to view cars hiding in your blind spot, and offer support to the rearview mirror and even the side view mirrors. However, some do more than just attempt to illuminate and/or eliminate blind spots.

In this guide, we are going to examine the top mirrors for your blind spot in the marketplace, and point out when one is the top blind spot mirror for a car or if it is better for trucks or SUV drivers. We'll consider the high quality options alone, and look at properties like whether or not they are easy to install, improve your traffic safety, make it easier to change lanes, or even if they are a rear view blind spot mirror with wide angle convex design to cover the fullest range of view, making them products that will modernize your car like you wouldn't believe.

In other words, we are going to consider it all and give you a thorough list of the top blind spot mirrors for your specific needs—no matter what you drive.

The Need for Blind Spot Mirrors

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Why should we even need these? After all, in this day and age, vehicles can have sensors operating 360 degrees around the car, warning if a collision is imminent. There are even models program designed to signal a warning if we drift out of our lane. With that much tech around, why would mirrors for your blind spot still be a thing? The answer is simple: Yes, that tech is out there and saving many lives, but it is not so widely spread as to make spot mirrors obsolete or unneeded.

In fact, as one expert says, "having a car lurking in your blind spot can spell disaster at a moment's notice," and it is really only blind spot mirrors that save the day.

The Best Ones Available Now

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Most of the options we are going to suggest are premium, and not what could be described as cheap in price. This is significant because it means they are unlikely to degrade, fall off your side mirrors, and offer distortion in the view. The mirrors that perform in that unwelcome way are often made entirely of plastic, and though that means shatter resistant, they may not perform as needed which goes against the very logic of installing blind spot mirrors in the first place!

Think of this option as the bare bones and basic for cars, trucks, and/or SUVs. Highly functional and yet utterly simple, they capture the entire blind spot and even give a fisheye view that totally eliminates any missing areas of the actual blind spot itself.

We love anything that can do multiple tasks effectively, and as the name of this one implies, it can be used to help you keep an eye on the kids without turning around, but it also works well as a fantastic blind spot mirror in a pinch. It can be removed and installed easily in seconds and provide you with full and adjustable views of the blind spot.

If you are not keen on mounting your blind spot mirrors to the exterior of the vehicle, this handy option is the ideal replacement. It lets you position the mirror alongside the rear view mirror inside of your car or truck and keep tweaking it until your blind spot is in plain sight. You don't even have to do more than look towards that mirror and the trouble ends. It's a great accessory that will modernize your old car.

Used by professional racing teams, this is the ultimate inside mount for optimal views. It gives you the widest possible field of view without using the car side mirror or wing mirrors. It features four panels that capture the entire perimeter of the car, and each does so without warping or altering the depth of field, ensuring a more accurate portrait of the traffic.

The ideal solution for a compact or vehicle with smaller side-view mirrors that don't have adequate room for a traditionally sized stick on or round mirror. These mount to the top of the existing side mirrors and give the fullest view possible, ensuring no blind zones exist.

German engineered with ball bearings for easy and smooth adjustment, these are unusual side mirror enhancers. Shaped as rectangles and fully adjustable in any direction, they have been designed as a premium option when wing mirrors on a car or truck are not possible.

Mount this over the existing rear view mirror of your truck or larger car and it instantly expands your field of view to one that is distinctly extra wide and all encompassing. It measures 330mm in width and is able to capture the entire span of the vehicle, especially with a convex nature that offers an enhanced rear view. It makes a great gift for car lovers.

With these small adjustable blind spot mirrors, you can place and swivel to just the right position based on the build of your vehicle. Simply apply to your car or truck's existing mirror and swivel into the perfect position.

These small, convex blind spot mirrors are perfect for any size vehicle, but especially smaller cars. Some small cars are modeled in such a way that they actually have a larger blind spot range. These attach to your car's existing mirrors to remove those blind spots.

If you wish to go even farther, you can upgrade your vehicle with sensors, such as the Crimestopper Universal Front and Rear Blind Spot Detection System, or visit your local garage or dealership to find out about sensor upgrades for your vehicle.

You don't have to feel you are driving with blind spots and can instantly upgrade the view and your safety with these different, affordable, and easy-to-install blind spot mirrors.

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Arnold Seleskey

Nocturnal writer still working on first novel.

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