Clear perspex, cut to the shape of the window. Make a cardboard template and drop of to plastics joint. 1/2 a dozen or so of those self adhessive velcro dots. And off ya go!!

 

If you do go the Plastic route make sure you have something across the middle of it, or you will get some dust in there scratching patches in the glass.

 

What I saw a lot of people using on the Gibb River Road and up to Kalumbaru was simply cardboard taped over the rear windows. Obviously you can't see out the rear then but that doesn't matter so much up there.

 

3mm ply siliconed on. When you get back from your trip get a scraper blade and some wax and grease remover and off she comes no worries.
If your towing a trailer looking out the back windows not much help you're using your side mirrors more.
Cardboard is good - but when it gets wet its rooted
added bonus of this is a tiny bit more insulation so the fridge (if kept in your vehicle rather than the trailer) works better. Also keeps prying eyes out when stopping in towns. Painted black it looks the goods too! cant tell till you get up reasonably close

 

My Brother-in-law has a frame on the front of his campertrailer with shade cloth over it. It is angled down so all the rocks just hit it, lose momentum and fall back to the ground.

 

im probly going to do something like this , i already have the steel for the frame and some shade cloth sitting around so why not

 

900 bucks for small rear window?? are they for real or what.. thats insane

 

my brother is a windscreen fitter, the mark up on glass is unbeliveable, eg windscreen for a seirra $52 for him, go to eg koala glass $255, usually rule of thumb the esyer the glass gets broken like your quarter glass from little theifin *@#%'s the more of a mark up they usually put on it.

as for the perspecs an card board. . . couldnt u just get some lexan an just velcro it to the glass when u go off road with your trailer an take it off when u get back on tar ??

 

yer i was thinking the perspex idea as like to still have visability out the back window as need to still be able to check on my bikes when im towing them in my other trailer.

will have to get my self some perspex now, is the best way to cut it using a jigsaw with correct blade?

yer $900 would have to break the other one, but i think any spare part with nissan printed on it is expensive.

 

yer i was thinking the perspex idea as like to still have visability out the back window as need to still be able to check on my bikes when im towing them in my other trailer.

will have to get my self some perspex now, is the best way to cut it using a jigsaw with correct blade?

yer $900 would have to break the other one, but i think any spare part with nissan printed on it is expensive.

If you get the perspex or Lexen from a plastics supplier they can usually profile it for you for a couple dollars.

 

polycarbonate is better then perspex

G'Day ,
theres a better solution than perspex , use polycarbonate instead is stronger and will take more impact with out cracking , wont fade and canbe cold bent , up to a sharp 90dgrees without breaking . when i ought some it was about $120 for a 1.5x1 mtr sheet compared to perspex of $100 , so the polycarbonate will be far more benificial than perspex.

polycarbonate you can also get it clear or with different darknesses of tint in it .

Or theres a clear film i seen on 4wdtv - clearplex , i dotn know much about it , only what ive seen on the tv show and the web site , but i do know if i lived in melbourne id be straight down there to have it put on my windows cause out here (cobar) were always getting stone chips.

it looks the goods anyway.

heres the link to the mob in melbourne that do it
http://www.gat.com.au/

here the link for the brouchre of it
http://www.clearplex.com/media/BrochureJan06.pdf

heres an american video of the product
http://clearplexdealer.com/video/webmercialwplayer.html

hope this helps some bit ,

cheers , chicken

 

G'Day ,
theres a better solution than perspex , use polycarbonate instead is stronger and will take more impact with out cracking , wont fade and canbe cold bent , up to a sharp 90dgrees without breaking . when i ought some it was about $120 for a 1.5x1 mtr sheet compared to perspex of $100 , so the polycarbonate will be far more benificial than perspex.

polycarbonate you can also get it clear or with different darknesses of tint in it .

Or theres a clear film i seen on 4wdtv - clearplex , i dotn know much about it , only what ive seen on the tv show and the web site , but i do know if i lived in melbourne id be straight down there to have it put on my windows cause out here (cobar) were always getting stone chips.

it looks the goods anyway.

heres the link to the mob in melbourne that do it
http://www.gat.com.au/

here the link for the brouchre of it
http://www.clearplex.com/media/BrochureJan06.pdf

heres an american video of the product
http://clearplexdealer.com/video/webmercialwplayer.html

hope this helps some bit ,

cheers , chicken

Polycarbonate is otherwise/also known as Lexen from my understanding? and it is soo darn tough too.

 

While a stone guard does help it wont eliminate ALL the stones that hit the windows.

 

that clearplex looks impressive just need to find some one who supplys it in Australia, and able to send it my way. would be interesting to see if over a long time if you get any problem with dust around the edges.

i was looking at the stick on headlight protectors is supercheap the other day but cant get it in a large enough piece to cover the whole rear windows

 

i'm pretty sure this place is in victoria ,http://www.gat.com.au/

it was the place they had on 4wdtv a month or 2 ago.

if im wrong , you may be able to conact 4wdtv and theyll be able to tell you excactly who it was , but there was somone in aust that does it.

cheers

 

There used to be stuff called "Light Skinz" which was a 3M product adhesive slightly soft clear plastic. Supposed to make it bullet proof (yeah right) but it did work well for stones on glass lights.

I think I must have been lucky with my rear window after all the outback trips in the last few years.
I did make a big loose shadecloth stone protector cover for the front of my trailer. Because it is a bit loose and held on with ocky straps it seems to not bounce stones back like the tightly stretched stone deflectors do.

 

I've been using one from here for about 5 years now:

http://www.obiesoutback.com.au/obie1.htm

It's custom made for the vehicle.
I highly recommend it. Uses very high strength velcro.
I just returned yesterday from a trip where we traveled the Birdsville, Oodnadatta & Strzelecki tracks. Many thousands of rocky roads and, once again, no problems with the rear windows.

Greg

 

I use corflute.

Just get an old real estate agent sign and tape that to the window. It doesn't scratch the glass from rubbing, it doesn't fall apart when it gets wet and you can write your UHF channel and call signs on it if you want............. Works for me.

Cheers.


Anthony.