Can anyone recommend some towing mirrors for our Land Rover Defender? the conventional car-type towing mirrors aren't suitable as Defenders have a much larger mirror.
I'm hoping someone on the forums have had the same problems and will be able to help!
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I tow with a defender 90 and bought some from the c&c show this year. They mount onto the mirror arm and screw up underneath. They are very good but one fell off on a recent trip !
I have found my defender mirrors push back to another setting to allow them a wider view for towing. I have given up on the idea for towing mirrors as I can now see down the van using the wider setting.
I tried the 'suck it and see' mirrors but was not too impressed with their small 'footprint'. I then bought some (Milenco I think) universal mirrors that use plastic screw threaded 'bolts' to clamp onto the vehicles existing door mirror. As a previous writer has indicated, these fit on 'upside down' so to speak. The existing Defender door mirror arm is hollow and the towing mirror bracket fits into this hollow. Have not had any fall off yet after 2000 miles of towing.
I must admit that apart from monitoring long-range offside vehicle movemenmt (ie is there a heavy catching me up) or near-side work, such as when I'm passing the down slip of a motorway or 'A' road junction and I'm on the motorway or 'A' road, I prefer to use the existing Defenders mirrors. Certainly for on-site manouevring they are better.
The existing mirrors can be 'pushed forward' on their arms into a position that sits more at 90 degrees to the door than in the conventional position and this also helps with rear view (with or without additional mirrors attached)
As above we use upside down Milenco mirrors ,but did have to unscrew one mirror and put the other way around on the mirror arm ,about 1 min,had them for one year.just use some shockcord around both mirror arms then it cannot work its way off.
They look the ones.....only imagine them fitted underneath your existing mirror arm, with the angled bit of the frame pointing upwards. If you rotate the mirrors on their arms, they sit very nicely alongside the existing mirrors/
The Rock Steady Mirrorsin my opinion are better than the Milenco ones, you get 1 flat and 1 convex mirror (convex is for nearside) and retaining straps and a bag each.
HTH Mick
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Topic: Towing mirrors for Land Rover Defende
