Possibly is if no one else will work with her - the whole incident sounds like something you'd expect to see in Police Academy
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Will have to check but my understanding is it is only the front driver and passenger window that has to conform and the windscreen clear. That was told to me by a police officer. The rear can be any tint or ev
en painted over.
I did a bit of research and it seem
In a defender you only need two mirrors out of three
So you can remove the internal rear view mirror but with both passenger side and driver side mirror functioning.
So I replace the rear view with a ram mount ...
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Martin
Rear view mirror needed
On the drive into one of my contractors.....counted 16 cars with there rear view restricted.
1 had sun shades for the baby, 3 off the them pretty much covering the whole window
Another had three blokes sitting in the back seat
Most were tradies with ally boxes
One grey nomad
And one family which looked like they were on holidays.
I do have an rear camera that is on with ignition on. This replace the internal rear view. Will the cops consider this?...i guess not....Not in the ADRs...
Anyway there seems no mention of the size of the rear view mirror
So one of these bicycle ones will do? I have a couple https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...018/04/565.jpg
The rear camera one is interesting - all of our work service vehicles have canopies on the back and have had rear view cameras where the internal mirror was to allow vision out the back - it's on the whole time the vehicle is, but yes, according to the ADR's, a mirror is required, so technically these may not be legal either, but you'd be pretty hard done by to be booked for that IMO.
2006 ADR says that an interior rear view mirror is compulsory if the exteriror mirrors are small(Class II) but is optional of the exterior rear view mirrors are large(Class III).
rear view mirrors ADR.
Drill down to the large table in section 15. drill down further to see the definitions of the class of each mirror type required.
cameras are allowed as long as they conform to the specs outlined.
Defenders have much larger mirrors than cars do, so that's interesting.
If a wagon is towing a caravan would it fail that officer's interpretation of the rules.
Virtually every bus and semi-trailer would not have a useful internal mirror either because the rear is blocked.