Video Transcript for Hands-On with the CIPA HotSpot Mirror

Ellen: Hey everyone, I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com and we're going to be taking a quick look at the CIPA Hotspot mirror. This helps to give you a wide field view so you can see what's going on behind you and making changes to or change lanes safely. See if there's anybody in your blind spot and be able to know what's going on at all times.This can be utilized for a lot of different applications, whether that's for your towing vehicle or maybe for a work van or work truck. So you can put it on the back and see what's going on and eliminate those blind spots. You could even use this in a workspace, maybe for some blind corners, so you can make sure that nobody's going to be crashing into each other as they're going around that turn. So can be used just about anywhere you want it to be.It's going to feature this nice convex lens for the mirrors that gives you a wide field of view.

It does distort this perspective because it is like a bubble, so it does make things look a little bit weird but it does give you that nice wide field of view so you can see a lot of the area around. It does come with a little L bracket at the back to help mount it up in place. It does not come with any hardware to mount that bracket so you will have to provide that on your own, but you can get a pretty good view of my studio here with this nice wide mirror. Definitely shows a lot of what's going on and makes the room looking a lot bigger than it really is.The back again, we have that little L bracket and it looks like it's sitting on a ball joint, but whenever I was fiddling around with this, even if you loosen up this bolt, you can swing the bracket around but I couldn't get this ball joint to move. It could just be seized up, maybe if you put a little lubricant on there, it would move around but from right out of the box, it just doesn't seem to want to move.

So I can't really say that that has a lot of adjustment there. It should move, but you might have to coax it into doing that.Overall, it's about 8 1/2" in diameter. The depth of the mirror itself, for the housing is about an inch and three quarters. If we include the bracket in there, it's about 3 1/4" deep. It does have a limited one-year warranty and has a black plastic or really a black metallic housing.

It is made out of safety glass, so it shouldn't have any issues with it.If it does happen to come into contact with something and it breaks, it shouldn't let any shards go off. It should just hairline fracture and be relatively safe to deal with. But that's going to do it for our look at the CIPA Hotspot mirror. I hope this video has been helpful in deciding if this is going to be the right piece for you. Again, I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com.

Thanks for watching.