CIPA Magna Custom Extendable Towing Mirror - Electric, Heated - Driver Side

Video Transcript for Review of CIPA Towing Mirrors - Full Replacement Drivers Side Mirror - CM70711

Hello neighbors, I'm Steven here at etrailer.com. Today we're taking a look at the CIPA Magna Custom Extendable Towing Mirror and its electric heated face and it's the driver's side. Now folks, this is a custom application. Make sure on our homepage, etrailer.com, you're checking out the fit guide or the vehicle application guide at the top center of our page. Enter the year, make, and model, cab style, that kind of stuff, whatever it asks you. Make sure you're getting the right parts for your specific vehicle.

Now, these do offer a nice rounded, extendable towing mirror feature and that will replace your factory side of your mirror on the driver's side of your vehicle. Now again, this is a factory install, simple, no drilling. It uses your factory wiring connector that you should already have, and if you already have the functions, it'll run electric and heat to this mirror. It's gonna have the same footprint, it's got the gasket, the hardware here that lines up to your factory mirror. Now, you cannot upgrade to a power mirror with heated face if your OEM mirror does not already have those functions.

So meaning this mirror may bolt up and fit inside of your doorframe or the frame of your truck just fine, but if you don't have those plugs and already have those features for your mirror, this is not gonna upgrade to that kind of stuff. Your truck has to be wired from the factory already to get those features. Now these are a telescoping mirror, so you can push 'em in whenever you're just driving normal or pull 'em back out whenever you're towing to get an additional four and a quarter inches of line of sight. Now as I mentioned, you can pull the mirror away, you can push it back. Now if you have a power option, those adjustments will let you change the face of the mirror position, and you can control them inside your truck with the factory module nectar controllers.

Now the heated mirror glass would melt away ice, frost, that kind of stuff. It's never gonna fog up on you. And you get this nice included wedge hotspot mirror that's just a double sided adhesive on the back. You simply wipe off where you wanna put it here with the rubbing alcohol and then stick it in place. Keep in mind the thicker side of this wedge hotspot, so it's a thin side and a thick spot.

The thicker side always goes towards the door. Now it can also fold away, so if you need to like fold it and get more space, you could do that. I'm not able to do it 'cause it's not attached to the vehicle. But if you had enough force holding this, you could fold this out of the way. Now I'm gonna throw up some dimensions here while I'm still talking about this. So you can see some dimensions. It does have a nice bipolar construction even as that picture shows you, you got both arms there. That helps dampen the vibrations and it's gonna provide you with a much sharper, clearer reflective image on the mirror face. The housing is a durable ABS plastic and it's gonna give you a nice impact resistant cushion, if you will, on the mirror itself. And as I said, it's a custom fig. You don't have to worry about drilling or installing. As far as the install, you don't have to worry about drilling or anything. Well folks, I think that's gonna wrap it up for our look at this towing mirror. I'm Steve with etrailer.com. Thank you so much for your time. Thanks for watching and have a great day.