Windscreen Stoneguard

You could try these guys, Hy-Way Sunvisors

Ev, The difference these days is all the windscreens are laminated. In the days gone by, the windscreens were just safety glass, all you needed was a sharp rock to turn it into thousands of little pieces you cant see through, you had to knock the screen out to continue driving, therefore, no screen at all. So i guess with Laminated screens, you either get a chip or a crack, but you can still see through it and continue on.. So the importance of protection is less..

I remember my brother in law had a HK Holden in the early seventies with a formed perspex shield with a thick rubber rim around it that sat on the outside of the original screen, i forget what held it on now. Bugs and the wipers on it made short life of it but i guess it did its job if it stopped a broken front windscreen.. Gee!! I really have gone deep into the hard drive(brain) to retrieve all that.. Michael

After doing 2, yes, TWO, windscreens in two days, I have seriously considered looking for a stoneguard myself. I haven't seen them around (except on older vehicles) for some time.

My interest is now renewed...

there is a new plastic coating that has just been brought out from the states, seen it on tv last week but cant remember the name (sorry) i am waiting for a email back,

Had limited experience with one in the 1970’s and found that the annoyance they created far outweighed the practical uses. The one that was on the car covered the full screen, rather than the ones on trucks I’ve noticed which only cover the bottom of the screen, below the line of vision

Using them is a real pain, as your eyes are constantly changing focus; distance to something less than a metre from your nose. Every time your move your head or eyes, your eyes focus on the nearest object and then refocus in the distance.

It’s like driving with a bug encrusted window at all times and definitely worse than a chip or crack passing across your line of vision. They are tiring to use on long distance drives. When you’re tired, the risk ensues that you may focus on the screen and distant objects are in the background of your focus

Havent had one for a while but I reckon they were great.

Even with todays laminated screens ... anything that stops a a crack starting is a good thing ... especially at todays thieving repair prices.

Havent seen any for sale for years but they are not hard to make ....

light steel rod / fine mesh / flat black paint / mapp gas gun / solder etc and jobs done with some creative mounts.

As Nargun 51 stated .... they can be an issue if you have focussing problems ... more so if they only get used on odd occaisions - same as those who have towing problems when they only do it for two weeks of the year.

Probably today they are outlawed ... cant have ol scrubby getting scratched on something before he slams through the windscreen ehhh ????.

Perspex will quickly scratch and become worse than useless. Mesh will certainly have a fuel consumption price to pay, unless you only use it when travelling quite slowly. I wouldn't think it was worth it.

I remember reading or hearing somewhere that the major cause of windscreen damage is your speed, rather than the car that kicks up the rock.

It's your speed hitting the rock the matters, because usually the rock is flicked up and is pretty much not moving horizontally.

That means that it's important to ease off as you pass vehicles on roads that have a lot of loose rocks.

I used to have a perspex wind deflector on my on HJ47 troopie. It seemed to cut the number of rocks hitting the windscreen a bit.

G'day

If anyone is interested in one of the steel mesh type protectors I've got one in the shed that hasn't been used for yonks, it still has the bonnet gutter brackets. When it was new and the mesh very shiny it was almost impossible to see through but we left it out in the weather for a while until it tarnished.

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