I’d like to comment on the lady (from Alaska?) who wanted her husband to put the dry cleaning on the right side of the car so it wouldn’t block her view out the left rear window when she is checking her blind spot. She was told on the show that you can’t easily see out that left rear window when you…

Nope, been hanging clothes on the left side for over 40 years because of that. Used to have a clothes rod and I’d always push the clothes to the left so I could see out the right window. Not saying you don’t ever look a little through the left window, but if you have to choose one or the other, th…

Just lay the dry-cleaning on the back seat and enjoy the added safety of seeing out both windows.

Option 2 - I hook the dry cleaning over one of the headrest supports in the front passenger seat. The hooks in back don’t hold enough.

I buy only wash & wear. Seriously, there’s no way I could see out the LR window on my car.

I completely understand Alaska girl. I crane my neck to check LR! I don’t trust just my mirrors. If I did have dry cleaning (wash and wear too), I would lay it on the back seat cause I actively check the other side also.

I agree, clothes should be hung on the left. I definitely use that right window more, and if your mirror is adjusted properly it should cover that left blind spot.

completely depends on what you’re driving. Since you have to hang them SOMEWHERE, you choose the place that blocks the least available view. In my Expedition and Escape that’s the left rear quarter window.

The only time I was able to see something useful out of the left rear window was in England, where the driver sits in the RIGHT and they drive on the left. The SAE has a pamphlet on how to adjust your mirrors to avoid blind spots. You do have to move your head slighty when you want to see what’s i…

Checking your blind spot through the left rear window

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mleich January 26, 2012, 6:48pm 8

If this is an issue, someone’s mirrors need to be adjusted outward. Tom and Ray’s method (on this website) should be in every State’s driver education manual.

That said, I always check the blind spot outside the left rear window.

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Checking your blind spot through the left rear window

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