Mirrors or Not

Thanks for the advice here guys, I found it really useful.  

my daughter got stopped and a £60 fine for not having them ... she only towed four times before she had to sell the caravan due to starting a family and needing the money , unbelievably unlucky i say :(

Unbelievable certainly. If she needed mirrors, she should have had them.

I can't remember the last time I saw a copper on the road ..... least of all when towing. (Complete with extended mirrors ☺)

I have always used tow mirrors since I started 35 years ago. Strange thing is that a few years ago I towed from a site onto a particularly windy road. Several miles of it. It was only when I hit the straight that I realised that I had forgot to put my mirrors on.  Because the road was so bendy I kept getting a view one side or the other from the car mirrors and when I hit the straight realised that I could not see down the caravan. Into first pull in to fix!

Likewise, I always use extension mirrors but usually as I'm exiting the site after a word in my ear from my passenger

I need one of those to whisper in my ear - perhaps I can train the dogs to remind me!  I never get far without them mind - so I clearly check quite often! 

It's  hard work towing without extended mirrors. Apart from when I've forgot to fit on the site & then realised and pulled over to fit them, I've towed with just one mirror a couple of times. Once when a k**b in a Saab decided there was room to pass me (in the opposite direction) and there wasn't and smashed my driver's side mirror,  and then when I dropped one while fitting it in French France 😳. Fortunately the passenger side mirror was of more use to me while on the wrong side of the car.

 At the moment I'm using Milenco Aero towing mirrors.  I bought them after reading good reviews of them.  Sadly I've been dissapointed with them and I find the view restricting, and,  to be honest, I tend to llok in the car wing mirrors rather than the Aero mirrors.  Not only that, but I find them a pain to adjust to get in the right position.  I'm so tempted to go back to my Suck-it-and-See wing mirrors which I liked.

David 

I bought some  Milenco Aero towing mirrors about 4 or 5 years ago. Put them on the car and did not like them at all. Went back within a few hours.

I keep an old spare mirror in the car for when I meet the same Saab as MM