Always great to be reminded / informed of features that are really useful - that make Volvos what they are (folks still turn their nose up at Volvos 'cos they dom't understand...)
Haha. I'm easily amused! Seriously though didn't know about pressing left and right buttons together to pull the mirrors in and how to get just one mirror to dip when reversing. 👍 Cold weather tip: disable the folding function when locking the car at night; ice accumulation can prevent the motors unfolding them again. Ask me how I know!
Thank you. I did learn new things about my Volvo mirrors. I appreciate it. Some of the thing i paused to tell my wife and I guess she already knew it. 🙂Thanks again. - GLA
One thing I find with my V70 is that when the left mirror dips in reverse, it moves the mirror *out* and down, so I have to lean over into the passenger side to see the rear wheel and kerb. Apparently, there's no way to store the reverse dip position. A way around this is to store the reverse dip in seat memory 3. So, if I want to see the left kerb for reversing, rather than pressing the left mirror button, I press seat memory 3, then when I'm done reversing, I just select seat memory 1 again.
Thanks for the video mate. I was wondering if there is an option for saving the change in the position of the mirrors in reverse. Because while putting in reverse, the mirrors are getting in a position, which is not my setting.
It would be nice if the year of the car was shown instead of the year this was posted. We are in 2023 and it shows the post as two years ago. I assumed the Volvo was two years old and that the tips would apply to my two years old Volvo. It was only after I wasted my time opening the post did I find out the Volvo shown was an instinct model no longer being made or sold. Definitely not a two years old model.
I need to have the mirror setting when reverse is engaged reset such that it does not engage each time the car is put on reverse. How do you reset the system?
When reverse gear is activated, the mirror not only dips down, but also so much inwards looking down towards the front door body???, the kerb can barely be seen on the outer edge of the mirror, so the mirror positioning is all wrong, so it was not turned on all the years! If anyone has got a hack to calibrate the reverse mirror tilt position to our usefulness, kindly let me know. No other cars I know tilt inwards by so much.
We cannot see which buttons you are pressing your fingers are covering them please can you zoom in on the buttons so we can see which specific button it is ? Thankyiv
My dad recently bought a 2009 Volvo v70 and the side mirrors won’t fold when I tried to close them, and there is no settings for the side mirrors, do you have any tips? If you do please tell me! Thank you!
You've probably gotten an answer by now, but they don't all come with power folding mirrors. But it can be retrofitted. Easiest way to check is if there's puddle lights under them, then they have power folding as well.
