If it it did become available, I would deactivate it. I know BMW for one makes a killing ($600.00 per side) on replacement mirror motors due to the auto fold in feature upon locking the vehicle. And the Jeep being a Chrysler product, no thanks.
The mirrors are supposed to work for the life of the car. If they don't, you get them fixed, just like a power window or a power tailgate.
If I ever thought I was buying a vehicle with options I wasn't supposed to use all the time, I'd buy another vehicle.
My former neighbor used to fold his mirrors on his full size pickups every time he backed into his garage. These were full size GM pickups. He never had a failure, nor did he expect to.
The mirrors are supposed to work for the life of the car. If they don't, you get them fixed, just like a power window or a power tailgate.
If I ever thought I was buying a vehicle with options I wasn't supposed to use all the time, I'd buy another vehicle.
My former neighbor used to fold his mirrors on his full size pickups every time he backed into his garage. These were full size GM pickups. He never had a failure, nor did he expect to.
I use them all the time. Not only when parking. There are a lot of tight streets in my area and driving down them with the mirrors folded in makes it so much less stressful, especially when other large vehicles forget to fold their mirrors in while parked. It's so nice to just be able to hit a button as I'm driving down the street and fold them in. Love it!
Hello,
I never had a problem with that option on my mercs.
I used to have an E63 for about 4 years. And the mirror folding option I was using!
As well my SL from 1992 has this option and still it's working.
So might it has just happen with a few BMW and it has nothing to do with the reliability of German cars.
They are still the best engineered cars, but just f...n expensive.
Quality wise of interior, exterior and material you can notice immediately a big difference.
I was for example shocked when I received my brand new JGC and I needed to go back to the showroom due to misaligned door, bumper the grill was not fixed proper and the interior trim in the compartment was misaligned as well.
I saw other cars, there where the tail lights not proper aligned and had a little offset to the body!
All of those things is quality wise a big minus and made me very unhappy at the beginning. But they fixed the issues and now it's ok.
Hi everyone - since this post has been dormant for awhile, I wanted to see if anyone knew of possible updates on the auto-folding mirrors. The new wife wagon (2016 Explorer) has side mirrors that fold in when the doors are locked and open when the car is started. Do you still have to push the fold button on JGCs to get the side mirrors to fold or unfold?
My sisters Kia Optima's mirrors fold in when you lock it and out when unlocked. So does my Lexus. Wish my GC would do. Even though pointless it looks cool in like a tacky my car is expensive kinda way lol