Stupid wing mirror adjustment on CHR PHEV

[Louie]

Why oh why would you install a rocker switch to choose between which wing mirror to adjust highly irritating. My old Excel and Gr Sport had none of this idiocy and worked perfectly well so  why change it. Toyota have obviously not heard of the saying "if its not broken  don't try and fix it".

[dannyboy413]

Seems perfectly reasonable to me, press left side for left mirror, right side for right mirror. There is also a saying "You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.

[Paul john]

3 hours ago, Louie said:

Why oh why would you install a rocker switch to choose between which wing mirror to adjust highly irritating. My old Excel and Gr Sport had none of this idiocy and worked perfectly well so  why change it. Toyota have obviously not heard of the saying "if its not broken  don't try and fix it".

How old was your excel and chr ? I've had rocker switches for at least 8 years 

[forkingabout]

I would guess the excellent plus ergonomic first generation C-HR mirror selection & adjustment knob is being missed 🤣

[Louie]

Forking about yes absolutely why would you want to fiddle about with wing mirror adjustment while on the move. Logic dictates that its safer to perform one operation rather than two when fiddling with two inputs for the wing mirror in my CHR. I really like my CHR PHEV and it has a lot more plusses than minuses  so I guess I am just having to bite the bullet. However I think the Toyota design team need a stern talking too in a an utterly friendly way of course. 

[Cyker]

I've never known someone so passionate about electric wing mirror controls!  

[forkingabout]

8 hours ago, Louie said:

However I think the Toyota design team need a stern talking too in a an utterly friendly way of course. 

Could be worse, Toyota could have made the control a soft button on a touchscreen - something they have done with the latest reach & counter balance forklifts.

But at least the basic layout of these soft buttons can be configured by me as required 🤣

[ThomasL]

Old Auris was a rocker switch, I guess Toyota realised it wasn't broke so didn't fix it?

 

 

[Red_Corolla]

I can see how these things might matter if the car is being used by multiple different drivers day-in, day-out. In my case, it's my personal vehicle and the wife never offers to drive, so the mirror adjusters have been surplus to requirements ever since the initial setting was done, thus rendering the switch design unimportant, to say the least.

All that being said, I can confirm my car (21 Corolla) has a rotary selector, having nipped outside for a look. 😇

[forkingabout]

I use the mirror adjustor every time I enter / exit my garage.

On entry I have to fold the mirrors in to get through the door frame, then stop & unfold them again, then angle the passenger mirror glass down to check the passenger side of the car clears the door frame. 

On exiting I use the passenger mirror to check I'm clear of the door frame then I have to stop to fold the mirrors in to clear the door frame then unfold them & adjust the passenger mirror glass up again. 

[Louie]

oooooh Forkingabout that sounds complicated and so multi layered.

You remind me of my next door neighbour in the nicest possible way of  course who spends at least 5-10 minutes every evening trying to squeeze his huge Ford SUV into his tiny garage and I often wonder how does he get out of it probably through the sunroof but its a guess and I dare not ask him.

[Chrisg99]

14 hours ago, forkingabout said:

I use the mirror adjustor every time I enter / exit my garage.

On entry I have to fold the mirrors in to get through the door frame, then stop & unfold them again, then angle the passenger mirror glass down to check the passenger side of the car clears the door frame. 

On exiting I use the passenger mirror to check I'm clear of the door frame then I have to stop to fold the mirrors in to clear the door frame then unfold them & adjust the passenger mirror glass up again. 

Just fill the garage with junk and leave the car on the drive. Everyone else who has a garage appears to do this.😆.

[forkingabout]

Just now, Chrisg99 said:

Just fill the garage with junk and leave the car on the drive. Everyone else who has a garage appears to do this.😆.

I don't have a drive & the car is much safer stored in the garage when I'm at home.

[forkingabout]

21 hours ago, Louie said:

oooooh Forkingabout that sounds complicated and so multi layered.

You remind me of my next door neighbour in the nicest possible way of  course who spends at least 5-10 minutes every evening trying to squeeze his huge Ford SUV into his tiny garage and I often wonder how does he get out of it probably through the sunroof but its a guess and I dare not ask him.

Its a 1973 built garage so it was never designed for the vehicle sizes a lot of people have today. 

I have to get the left side near the post as possible else I cannot exit / enter the vehicle as there's also a post on the right just where the door opens. 

[Louie]

oh dear I have so much detritus in my garage any vehicle I have ever owned sits on the drive

[Paul john]

1 hour ago, forkingabout said:

Its a 1973 built garage so it was never designed for the vehicle sizes a lot of people have today. 

I have to get the left side near the post as possible else I cannot exit / enter the vehicle as there's also a post on the right just where the door opens. 

Nice fit though

[Rhymes with Paris]

I don't have a garage myself, but I must have a word with a bricklayer pal who is still building new houses despite being well past retirement age,to find out if what the current standard size is.

Given the rather large increase in the size of even "small" cars ,it looks like at least the width needs another 3 ft or so.

The old standard 18'x9' was I think designed for a tiny car like the Austin seven, with enough room to work around it, and carry out maintenance.

Unless someone is made of rubber, I can't see a way on or out of the car with clearances like those.