Wiper Problems of Mercedes Benz Metris

The passenger side mirror provides inadequate visibility to the side of the vehicle. The mirror does not appear to have any convex or image size altering properties to improve blind spot visibility as most vehicles do.

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I'm on my 3rd windshield in 3 years, never had this issue before and I've been driving for 35 years. Every windshield adds $1,000. 00 to my yearly upkeep.

The field of view in the side mirrors, especially the passenger side, is inadequate and dangerous. The mirrors need to be larger with a wider angle of view. There is a huge blind spot on the passenger side of the Metris. I've read about owners sourcing wider angle convex mirrors from european versions of the Metris and replacing the mirrors on 2016 Metris vans.

First off, I have only had this car for approximately 1 week and spent considerable time driving in a large metropolitan area as well as on the interstate with the vehicle in this first week (1200 miles in total). I have adjusted the side mirrors as wide as they are capable of adjusting and still, an enormous blind spot remains for the driver that is both dangerous to myself and drivers around me. On two occasions this week, one (today) that was the worst yet, I was changing lanes and after checking the side mirrors and seeing absolutely nothing, I came extremely close to hitting a sedan that was driving in my blind spot. Fortunately, the other driver was paying attention and able to swerve away from my vehicle to avoid being hit. This particular vehicle is the cargo version with a bulkhead installed which renders the rearview mirror useless and no ability to look over your should out a rear window to check for vehicles. I have just ordered extra clip on mirrors from amazon to make the vehicle at least operational but in my opinion being forced to alter something such as side mirrors to make the vehicle reasonably safe to operate is unacceptable from any manufacturer, let alone mercedes-benz who claims such a high standard of safety on their vehicles. After doing a little more investigation, this is clearly a known issue experienced by a lot of people who operate this vehicle (I. E. . Read more...

Side mirrors are too tall and too short! we almost got into accident for several times before but yesterday (7/17/17) was really close! I was changing to right lane when another car is so close I have to slam my brakes because my passenger mirror is so bad about visibility. Please help before we get hurt or worse. Thank you!.

Ever since we got this vehicle we complained that the mirror is too small, which makes it extremely hard to make turns. I tried to search online, and right away found a Metris forum with many many posts about this same issue. The posters were writing about contacting mercedes, and the dealers didnt even know about it, or the ones who did said that the 2017 models were indeed improved. I am now trying to get a replacement for my van, and the dealers are not helpful at all.