Summit SEP-1 Easipark Lens Parking Mirror

Hot hatchbacks and superminis may seem like an ideal choice for town driving, but when it comes to town parking you cannot see the limit of the rear of your car when reverse or parallel parking. This nifty little device is excellent. As soon as mine was installed and tested I was able to park with confidence and ease.The best way of testing this is to get your other half to stand in the road and then reverse at him/her. Come to as stop when you can see knees through it. Secure the car, get out, note the distance. Get in reverse till knees have disappeared from view. Stop, secure car, get out, note distance. Get back in reverse till thighs can be seen etc. Not only does this enhance the trust you have for one another in your relationship (LOL) but it allows you to get an idea of how close you can safely get to something. Once your other half has safely returned to the pavement you can test this by reversing towards a parked car. Can you see the licence plate? The top of the bonnet etc? You can do this yourself quite easily.I find I can easily and safely get to within 8inches of a car parked behind me, which makes parking between two stationary cars so much easier.

I was replacing an old one of these which had got damaged and on attaching the new one it was evident something was wrong as it gave a different view to the old one. It took me some time to work out that the lens worked better the other way round and that the mounting bracket had been put on the wrong way; If it works for you fine but otherwise you can gently slide the mounting bracket off (warm it up first in some water) and then slide it back on the other way round. This then gave me the same view I had with the previous one where I did not have to do this. I found it works best with the smooth side of the lens facing out of the car.Please note: the supplier is not at fault here but the manufacturer, it is easy to fix but just took me a long time to work out!

I got for my daughter to learn to drive - BUT - it obscured most of the rest of the rear window as took the main of the window bearing in mind the head restraints of the back seat - and then fell off. I suspect there are better ways to do it on the market.

Wow. Just ... wow!For decades I went from generally 10-year-old, five-previous-owners, mostly 'executive' (so big) car to car, and within no more than a day or two adapted to each and would casually throw them into even tight parallel parking places without much effort or thought. That ended when I suddenly became disabled in 2007 and, amongst other things, completely lost my former ability to learn to judge where the back of the car was. Where I live there are no garages or marked parking spaces, and we all just have to compete to find somewhere to parallel park by the street pavement, and I simply never could judge the back of the 1997 Scorpio saloon that was the only car I could find that I could bare to sit in for more than a couple of minutes after the disability struck. Unless there was a lot more than the space that ought to be needed I'd give up and park way up a side street, and if there was enough room for me to try, most times I'd end up painfully getting out to check where the back actually was. In 2020 I swapped the 1997 Scorpio saloon for a 1998 Scorpio estate. For some reason I became much better at getting the right distance from the kerb, but same issue judging where the back was. I thought of having parking sensors or a reversing camera fitted, but cost was an issue, especially as I'm no longer up to fitting myself. I've noticed this product and similar predecessors many times over the years, but the reviews were always very mixed.Finally decided that for under £6 I might as well try this Easipark, not really expecting much. Fitted it into the estate's rear window when my neighbour's car was 10 feet - a lot further than usual - behind mine. Sat in the driver's seat and in my normal view, either in the rear mirror or looking back, I could see my neighbour's windscreen and maybe a foot of bonnet in front of that and nothing else; In the Easipark, in the rear mirror or looking directly at it, i could see the entire front of his car - headlights, grille, number plate and bumper, his wheels down to the road and quite a bit of the road in front of his car. Just wow. Within a very short time I discovered that if I reverse until the top of the number plate behind just disappears in the Easipark I'm 6 feet away, and if I go back further until I can just see the top of their headlights, then it's 3 feet. It's just completely transformative for me - I'm now easily getting what is a big car into tight parallel parking spaces without worrying or having to keep getting out (which causes me a lot of pain). I doubt it would have helped in the Scorpio saloon with its big bulbous boot, but in the estate it's just awesome for something so simple and cheap. I could have saved myself a lot of grief and pain if I'd bought it 15 months ago when I got the estate. Well, better late than never.The Easipark's usefulness will vary hugely from one model of vehicle to another, but for my estate it is simply outstanding.

The adhesive strip detached from the product quite early, and I have replaced it with a high-quality sticker that has held much longer. The device is quite useful for reverse parking. It is quite expensive, bearing in mind the outlay on a better adhesive strip.

The Easipark lens works well with my 2009 Toyota Avensis estate. The lens helps with the problems of blind spots, and how close to next car or object. It is a lot cheaper and quicker than fitting a reverse camera. Later or higher models of my car do come with reverse camera.The only negative, and it more to do with the slope of the tailgate, is the view is not to the bumper. It is close enough and the Lens is mounted as high as possible, plus I can view over/between most rear passengers heads. I can see below the bumper of a car behind me through the lens, yet can just see the bottom of the windscreen/window, just looking through the rear window,.The size is fine for me, by not obstructing the general rear view. I stuck the lens to the glass, and hope the sticky pad holds.This is a great aid.Bought a second one for my brothers MPV which has a more vertical rear window, so should perform even better.

As far as the laws of physics go, great concept and worked well when it was sticking. Unfortunately, the stickiness is not great so I eventually had to bin it after a few months.

Fitted to a 2016 Xtrail as the window slopes so you can't use a window film style lensUse it to see where my pesky little trailer is, not perfect but does improve the view, could do with a little more angle.Based on other reviews, I removed the supplied sticky take and used heavy duty mirror adhesive tape.Does definitely improve the view behind the car, however not enough angle for touch parking.Quite small, perhaps 6x4 inches