I've got the Omix set too; I put the passenger one on, adjusted it
close in so I can see from the driver's seat, and shortened my door
strap so nobody can throw the door open and mess it up. That seemed to
work pretty well, though you can only still see just the corner of it.


Matt




"Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message news:<7oWdnf_qXJ1rdaTcRVn-gQ@comcast.com>...
> I got one of those omix mirror relocator braket sets, but didn't use the
> pass side, it's too hard to see with the soft door uppers in. In my state, I
> only need two rear-facing mirrors anyway. I have hard doors for winter and
> when I switch to the hard doors I'll just take the mirror off the bracket
> and store it, leaving the bracket in place. It bolts to the side of the
> lower half of the windshield hinge.
>

 

"Matt" <mhammer8@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3a3f4978.0409081022.7524e9fc@posting.google.c om...
> I've got the Omix set too; I put the passenger one on, adjusted it
> close in so I can see from the driver's seat, and shortened my door
> strap so nobody can throw the door open and mess it up. That seemed to
> work pretty well, though you can only still see just the corner of it.
>


Well, at the beginning of the summer I posed the same question here. But
now I have procrastinated to the point where the hard top will be dragged
out of storage soon anyway...

My take on what the best set-up (and what I intend on doing next non-snowwy
season) is:

New aftermarket mirror to stick in the hinge bracket for the drivers side.
Leave the OE mirrors on the full doors so you get good rearward visability
when you need it most (when the top or hard top is up).
Screw the passenger side mirror. Who needs it. If 2 mirrors were good
enough back in the 60's there probably good enough in the 00's. Let the
state "revenue agents" stop me when I've got the doors off if they can...
heck, it might even be legal but I'm too lazy to check.

-Fred W
'97 TJ Sport

 

"Matt" <mhammer8@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3a3f4978.0409081022.7524e9fc@posting.google.c om...
> I've got the Omix set too; I put the passenger one on, adjusted it
> close in so I can see from the driver's seat, and shortened my door
> strap so nobody can throw the door open and mess it up. That seemed to
> work pretty well, though you can only still see just the corner of it.
>


Well, at the beginning of the summer I posed the same question here. But
now I have procrastinated to the point where the hard top will be dragged
out of storage soon anyway...

My take on what the best set-up (and what I intend on doing next non-snowwy
season) is:

New aftermarket mirror to stick in the hinge bracket for the drivers side.
Leave the OE mirrors on the full doors so you get good rearward visability
when you need it most (when the top or hard top is up).
Screw the passenger side mirror. Who needs it. If 2 mirrors were good
enough back in the 60's there probably good enough in the 00's. Let the
state "revenue agents" stop me when I've got the doors off if they can...
heck, it might even be legal but I'm too lazy to check.

-Fred W
'97 TJ Sport

 

"Matt" <mhammer8@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3a3f4978.0409081022.7524e9fc@posting.google.c om...
> I've got the Omix set too; I put the passenger one on, adjusted it
> close in so I can see from the driver's seat, and shortened my door
> strap so nobody can throw the door open and mess it up. That seemed to
> work pretty well, though you can only still see just the corner of it.
>


Well, at the beginning of the summer I posed the same question here. But
now I have procrastinated to the point where the hard top will be dragged
out of storage soon anyway...

My take on what the best set-up (and what I intend on doing next non-snowwy
season) is:

New aftermarket mirror to stick in the hinge bracket for the drivers side.
Leave the OE mirrors on the full doors so you get good rearward visability
when you need it most (when the top or hard top is up).
Screw the passenger side mirror. Who needs it. If 2 mirrors were good
enough back in the 60's there probably good enough in the 00's. Let the
state "revenue agents" stop me when I've got the doors off if they can...
heck, it might even be legal but I'm too lazy to check.

-Fred W
'97 TJ Sport