Tom
A plausible explanation... With the narrow lanes allowed in parking
areas/structures these days it's entirely possible that driver A
"adjusts" driver B's right mirror upon exiting vehicle A. Being "over
there" and hard to reach, it simply stays "adjusted".

It's happened to me.
Cheers
Don
On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, at 02:30  PM, Automatic digest processor
wrote:

> Subject: Re: Re; Permanent Door Mirror Repair
>
> That's odd... In both my Vanagons, including the one where I replaced
> the
> right-side mirror with a BD OEM mirror, the right-side mirrors have
> ALWAYS
> "self-adjusted" while the left-side mirrors have been just fine.  In
> fact,
> many of the Vanagons I see on the road show this same situation; left
> mirror
> OK, right-side mirror obviously out of kilter.
>
> I've always wondered if there is some physical explaination (e.g.,
> precession induced by a rotating load, which dictates the use of
> left-hand
> threads in some situations) of why this patter should occur, but I've
> never
> come up with one.
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Tom Young
> Lafayette, CA 94549