There are few more painful sensations behind the wheel than feeling like the tire smashes against a curb when parking. Pulling into reverse and feeling like you’re doing a lift against the sidewalk is something we’ve all felt at some point. But did you know that there is a trick so that this never happens to you again?
People don’t know it, but this ‘tip’ is available in most cars with electronic configuration systems for the exterior rear-view mirrors. That is Most likely, your car has this function and you don’t even know it.. Plus, activating it is super easy.
Right rearview mirror
It is a function that allows you Right rearview mirror points down when you put reverse gear. This way you will be able to see the curb of the sidewalk to maintain the necessary distance to never scratch the car’s tires again.
To activate it, you will just have to follow these simple steps:
- 1. Put reverse gear.
- 2. Turn the rearview mirror remote control selector wheel to the right, or directly press the button that controls the right mirror.
- 3. Lower the mirror by pressing the lower part of the system position selector, or by lowering the wheel that controls the glass, until we see the ground.
If the car has this automation, we will see how When we remove reverse gear the mirror returns to its original position., and goes down again when engaging the ‘R’. In this way we will have achieved that every time we go to park in reverse, the mirror shows us the ground on our right side to maintain sufficient distance from the curb in order to never scratch car tires again.
Automatic control of exterior rearview mirrors
Although it is a very effective system to keep the tires safe, the truth is that it ends up making many drivers uncomfortablesince in some way it makes lose your references in the parking lotwith respect to the car or the wall behind you.
If so, you just have to perform the opposite maneuver, raising the mirror once you have engaged the ‘reverse’. This way the glass will never lower automatically again.