Just a short question... I never had an auto-dimming rearview mirror before and there's no information about it in the manual. What does the button on it do and what are the two green lights for? The left one is always on and I never saw the right one being on. When I push the button nothing happens... so I was wondering...

The button turns the auto dimming function off. The left green light tells you it is on, and this goes out when you push the button. and the right "light" is actually a sensor that senses the lights of vehicles behind you.
I hope this helps

Thanks, that makes sense!

I thank that it is one of the better features of the Patriot. I have never had a self-dimming mirror before and have a lot of trouble with bright lights at night. Even better would be if the system also controlled the outside mirrors.

I had one of these on my previous car, and I was very happy to have one on my Patriot...especially considering the distance from the driver's seat to the mirror.

I will say that on my previous car though, after a few years the mirror developed an area across the middle that wouldn't dim, and this area eventually grew to the point that virtually none of the mirror dimmed at all. I wound up buying a replacement mirror from the dealer, which was fairly expensive (somewhere @ $200), but I think it was worth it.

Another somewhat related tip; most people set their side mirrors up so they can see straight down the side of the vehicle when they glance that way, but if you instead lean your head as far as you can to each side, and then adjust the mirrors to see down the side at each extreme, you'll A) avoid glare from driver's behind you, because the light won't reflect directly into your eyes, and B) you'll eliminate most of the blind spot that you get from setting the mirrors the traditional way.

Basically when a car comes around you, you'll see it in the rear-view mirror; when it moves to the side you'll see the vehicle in your side mirror about the time it moves out of the rear-view. As the car comes around you, about the time it leaves the side mirror, you'll see it in your peripheral vision. It takes a little getting used to, but once you adjust to setting your mirrors up this way, you'll never go back to the old way.