How to Install a Rearview Mirror Monitor in Your Car

Add video to your vehicle with a rearview mirror monitor. It plugs directly into your vehicle's video system and displays the images on the built-in screen. When not in use, the rearview mirror monitor acts and looks just like a regular rearview mirror. Here's how to install one.
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Step 1

Disconnect the battery cables from the battery before beginning installation. Use a wrench or socket to remove the battery cables. Check the vehicle's repair guide for the proper wrench or socket size.
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Step 2

Remove the original rearview mirror from your car. Leave its mounting bracket on the windshield-you'll attach the rearview mirror monitor to this. Check the rearview mirror's mounting screw to see what size screwdriver you'll need.
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Step 3

Insert the rearview mirror monitor into the existing mounting bracket on your windshield. Use the bolt supplied with the monitor to secure the device in the mounting bracket.
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Step 4

Route an A/V power cable from the A/V selector box to the monitor. Connect the A/V cable from the monitor to the A/V power cable. Use cable ties to secure the cables and prevent them from hanging.
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Step 5

Reconnect the battery. Start your vehicle and select the rearview mirror monitor on the A/V selector box. The video monitor should come on if the rearview mirror monitor is correctly installed.
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How to install a rear view mirror in an automobile

One of the many annoying realities of car ownership is the fact that a car's rearview mirror is, by necessity, attached to the inner windshield with adhesive. The adhesive is typically a strong one -- it's usually easier to break the glass than to detach the mirror -- but heat and humidity can work together to weaken its bond with the glass. And there are few places that concentrate heat and humidity more than an enclosed car. Even in mild weather, this can break loose the rearview mirror.

If it happens that you're presented with a dangling mirror one day when you unlock your car, don't despair. It's just one of many small automotive irritations, but it can be dealt with -- and you don't have to pay a mechanic to fix it.

Tools and Materials Required

1. Rubbing alcohol

2. Paper towels or a soft cloth

3. A wax crayon or marking pencil

4. A flat-bladed scraper

5. A flat-head screwdriver

6. A small pair of pliers

8. Scissors

8. A mirror reattachment kit (NAPA and 3-M make good ones)

The Procedure

NOTE: Humidity can sabotage your efforts to replace your rearview mirror. If possible, wait for a particularly dry day before attempting this procedure.

1. Use the scraper to scrape clean the area where the mirror was formerly attached. If the scraper blade is sharp enough, even the toughest adhesive will yield to it.

2. Pour some alcohol onto a paper towel or cloth and use it to wipe down the area you've just scraped clean in order to remove any grease, oils, or remaining adhesive. Allow the windshield to dry for at least five minutes.
3. Examine the attachment point of the mirror. You'll notice the presence of a small U-shaped button in the receptacle of the attachment point. It is imperative that you remove this button. In some cases, it is secured with a small screw, which it will be necessary for you to remove first. Usually, however, it's simply snapped into place. In this instance, use the pliers to press down the metal flange holding it in, and use the screwdriver to pry out the button.

4. Once you've removed the button (however you managed it), very carefully use the scraper to remove all traces of adhesive from its face. Then clean the button with alcohol. Allow it to dry for five minutes.

5. When the button is dry, place it against the spot on the windshield where you'd like the mirror to be attached. Make sure that it's in the appropriate spot, because once it's on, it's not something you can easily remove again.

6. Make sure that the curved end of the U-shaped button is facing UPWARD. Then use the crayon or marker to trace around the button. When you remove the button, the area where you want to install it will be marked. Set the button aside for now. read full guide...

My Favorite Car

What is your favorite car of all-time?
What car do you wish you never purchased?
Well, I remember the smell, the look and the over-the-top style of the 1957 Chevy Bel Air.
My brother and sister-in-law bought this classic car last December 3, 2009 in Morganton. It was too cool with its tail fins, hooded automotive lights and V-8 Ramjet fuel injection engine.

This is really a kind of car that pinch my eyes and taste. It looks good for me. Its rear view mirror is too cool that's add to its whole physical performance.

Try this one, it may be fits in your taste too.

I like Bobby Car Song

I am very tired last day. Nothing i can do is just to look for a place where I could rest. I went first to Entertainment room but still I don't like the ambiance. I don't know what happen to me but after i parked my car in the garage from my office i felt nothing but tiredness.

Then I went to my room to take a nap after my work. When I'm lying in my bed, I remember to open my computer to hear some music. This was the thing that makes me alive when I'm tired.

A moment gone, i found this song entitled Bobby Car Song. This was a song sang by a children. Maybe you come to think that a car song like this sounds too freak like car hitting, buzzing, bump, breaking of automotive lights, and glasses but this one is different.
It sounds so gentle in my ears and comforts my inner self.

Yes! this is what I need now to heal and rest my mind and body. No noise, no pollution, all is gentle and in comfort. Hearing to this king of music is just like looking your reflection in auto mirrors. You can try it with you to feel the serene.

I saw electric car with Super Light

I often go to park on weekends. I do enoy fresh air as well as the plants.

But when i am making my steps on the stairs upward i saw a running car

but it is soundless. I focus my eyes on this car and i proove that it was an electric car.

Yes, it is my first time to see a real car like this and i was amazed with its car lights, you gonna ask me why?

My answer is because it shines very very bright on my eyes.

until i get back home that day, I still visualized the automotive lights i saw for the firts time.

And I do dream to ride in a car like that im sure i will enjoy having with that soundless car and installed with high quality

of car lights.

and it is also a nature friendly one. No smoke, no sound and of course no pollution at all.


author:yahdoyle
http://lightyourcar.blog.com/2010/01/08/i-saw-electric-car-with-super-light/

End Dangerous Blind Spots in Your Car's Mirror: Learn to Adjust Your Mirrors Properly

The government has told us wrong for many years. To my normal readers, this should be no big surprise. We examine it every day. For new readers, let me explain.


For decades your state’s department of motor vehicles has been misguiding you and creating a danger that doesn’t need to be created. I am talking about blind spots when you adjust your mirrors. Look in almost any state-produced driver’s manual, and they will tell you how to adjust the three mirrors on your car and then warn you about blindspots. You can adjust your mirrors without producing blind spots. You will be safer when you drive. Here’s how it works:


1. Sit in your driver’s seat.


2. Put your head against the driver’s window.


3. With your mirror adjuster, move the driver’s side mirror until the right side of the mirror swings out to meet the back of the rear quarter panel of your car.


4. Move the adjustment to the passenger side mirror.


5. With your head against the driver’s window, move the passenger side mirror until the left side of the mirror meets the rear back of the rear quarter panel of the car.


6. Now begin moving the rear view mirror toward your left until you achieve a true panoramic vision with all three mirrors. (It’s going to look strange at first, especially since the side mirrors may appear to pick up more shoulder or grass at first.)


What you have just done is removed all blind spots from your mirrors. At first, since you have been conditioned wrong by your state government’s guide for many years, it will seem odd to you—even a little uncomfortable. So you need to go to a slow road and let someone pass you.
Stay in the right lane. Watch the car behind you enter the passenger side mirror. As it passes you, it will enter the center mirror until you start to see the front end approach your driver’s side mirror. As it leaves the driver’s side mirror the front quarter panel of the car will enter your peripheral vision. The car never disappeared, which means it never entered a blind spot.


To be honest, it took me a few weeks to adjust to the change. You will find yourself double checking yourself, but I have done this long enough to know it has never failed me. I no longer have close calls because I wasn’t paying attention as a car entered what was my blind spot. This is a safer way to drive.

Posted by: Bungalow Bill
resource: http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2009/10/end-dangerous-blind-spots-in-your-cars.html

Two still missing in swept away car

One man died and another man and teenage girl are missing after their car was swept away while crossing a swollen stream during flash floods.

A fourth man, aged 20, escaped the Volvo saloon - an off-duty taxi - as it filled with flood water and reported the three others missing.

A man aged 26 and a 17-year-old girl remain unaccounted for but rescuers promised to "pull out all the stops" to find them before darkness halts the search.

The car mirror got into difficulties in the early hours of Saturday while trying to make the crossing in the village of Zennor, near St Ives in west Cornwall.

The body of a man aged 20 was recovered just after 7am downstream from where the Volvo S70 was found "fully submerged and full of water", Devon and Cornwall police said.
All those involved were local and had been out together.

Divers, firefighters, the coastguard and rescue helicopters combed the rugged stretch of coast, 14 miles from Land's End for the missing people.

The man freed himself from the car before it was sucked out into the water on the B3306 between St Ives and St Just.

He called ambulance control at 1.41am saying that three others were lost.

The tragedy happened as flooding was reported in several parts of St Ives, due to the heavy rainfall.