Review: Napolex Broadway Mirror

[AccordWarrior]

I recently picked up a Broadway mirror for my car. I figure I'll give it a quick review.

Brand: Napolex
Size: 270 mm
Shape: Convex
Tint/Color: Blue
Price: $15.00 Shipped on Ebay.


I'll provide the actual picture of it installed in my car in the future.

PROS:

- Blue tint makes glare non-existant. Very nice when you're behind a truck with its highbeams on. You see the lights in the mirror, but they hardly reflect. It's nice because you can still see behind you in low light conditions, which you can't with the Night feature on our stock mirrors.
- Blind spots greatly eliminated. I can see out of my back door side glass on the highway.
- Excellent clarity
- Convex enhances viewing angle and allows me to see more of the car

CONS:

- Disables the Day/Night mirror feature...so you will have to see the headlight dots at night. However, this is bearable with no glare.
- Convex mirror is a bit hard to get used to at first. Everything is closer than it appears in the mirror, so your perspective is slightly off to start. I got used to it after an hour
- Clip on installation isn't the cleanest, but that should be expected in a universal fit product.

Verdict:

Overall, I'm very pleased with this part. After driving on the highway with it, I felt a lot more secure about my blind spots, especially since currently I only have one side view mirror. It looks nice in the interior as well. It is definitely function over form, but well worth the money.

[92_accord_f20a]

it just goes over your stock mirror right? like clips on..

[Grant8311]

"Very nice when you're behind a truck with its highbeams on" lol i got it though..
Another con is this thing sucks for car's with dark tinted windows at night.. for those cars, get the regular ones w/o the blue tint.

[uncle_el]

i have a non tinted, non convex one. i absolutely love it.
since it's not tinted, it doesn't have the nighttime problems.

the pics were taken from roughly the same distance, but i didn't have my tripod. sorry i don't have a better rearview pic. my rear bumper was about 4 to 5 feet from the garage door.



stock:



270 mm flat broadway versus stock:

just look at how much more of the camera and myself you see in the broadway mirror versus the stock one!



broadway:

http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=19104

it just goes over your stock mirror right? like clips on..

please read:

Clip on installation isn't the cleanest, but that should be expected in a universal fit product.

[AccordWarrior]

Hmm...interesting. I didn't realize this was an issue (the tinting). If anything I feel my mirror being tinted has added, rather than detracted from the mirror.

I do plan on a legal tint at some point, so it will be interesting to see how my view changes when that happens.

[91accord4door]

Hmm...interesting. I didn't realize this was an issue (the tinting). If anything I feel my mirror being tinted has added, rather than detracted from the mirror.

I do plan on a legal tint at some point, so it will be interesting to see how my view changes when that happens.

i have 35% tint on my back window...really doesnt help much with the trucks. but it does with the cars,,,,but im also lowerd a shit load more than you so the trucks really do a number on me.