Mirrors

The law requires a passenger car registered since 2010 to be fitted with two external mirrors and an internal mirror (the internal mirror does not have to be fitted if it can not provide an adequate view - for example in a van with no rear windows.

Cars registered from June 1978 to 2010 must have:

• An external mirror on the driver’s side
  
• An internal mirror which can be adjusted from the driver’s seat
  
• Or, in the event that there is no internal mirror, two external mirrors.
  

(In a left hand drive car the driver’s door mirror would be on the left)

Mirrors must be clean and undamaged and adjusted to give the driver a proper view from the vehicle.

To pass an MOT test, all mirrors that are fitted to a car must be unbroken in order to pass and for the car to be legal. 

Modifying a car by removing a broken mirror could invalidate your insurance if you do not inform the insurance company that there has been a vehicle modification.

As all new cars sold in Europe have two exterior and one interior mirror – the above effectively states that three mirrors, in working order, must be fitted for your car to be legal.

Driving test examiners will refuse tests in cars with broken mirrors.