How to stop rocks smashing canopy rear window.

Hi Lazylux 16

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We have one on our Ultimate and they are just brilliant.

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Cheers



Stephen

Tape cardboard over it

I used "Polycarbonate" sheet cut to the size of the rear window of my landcruiser and held on with about 2" suction cups.
It lets you retain vision through the rear window and once on it can remain on for the whole trip.

Giggle " Polycarbonate "

"Polycarbonate is a strong, tough, stiff, transparent material with outstanding impact resistance.

Scrubby

It depends how often you will need it, if you want the best then get a custom made guard and it will also protect the tailgate as well as the window.

Lots of people either use suction caps or velcro to attach white foam sheets or poly just to the window.

They get dings in the tailgate though

We have used clear stiff plastic sheeting, like from Spotlight or similar stores, held in place by self adhesive Velcro. Copy brands were not a effective as the brand name Velcro, although this did slip out of place in the heat, so needed watching. Being clear it did not obscure vision like cardboard or corflute does.

Lazylux,
I have tried some of the methods detailed in this thread. Each has its limitations so like everything else in camping its a compromise. Beer carton will stop some rocks but not sure it would stop a big one. It also rubs on the glass and causes scratching. Corflute is better and will stop some of the larger stones too but again the rubbing. Both of these options can be a nuisance when you want to do some touring without a van chasing you and you have no rear vision. Not a big deal but I like it when all 3 mirrors work. I had some polycarbonate cut to size and fitted it with suction cups and velcro. In the heat and the corrugations I was constantly reattaching both. This is better than other 2 options but less than perfect. It still doesn't protect anything other than the rear glass. The other point is that it is also the front screen that is at risk. I had difficulty coming to grips with this when others told me about it until it happened to me. A stone ricocheted off the trailer stone guard and landed on the screen. Didn't break it but since there wasn't another car in the same postcode there was no other explanation. I now have a stone stomper which is by far the best I have used but still not perfect. My trailer has some stone marks on either side over an area about 300mm square. Couldn't work out how it was happening then realised the exploded front wheels on my 76 series was causing some stones to come up from the front wheels. Not the fault of the stone stomper. If you'll take my advice forget the low / no cost options and go straight to the stone stomper.

Another vote for the stone stomper, I aslo use a PLASWELD rear screen protector and it has dings in it I assume from passing cars. It is also not uncommon to see side rear windows on cars broken.

Hi I had a canopy on my Volkswagen Amarok and made a template of the window and went to Menzel Plastics to have them cut a poly-carb 2.00mm sheet and they supplied about 8 suction cups fitted to the poly-carb. Did cape York, and back through Birdsville - no problems

Learn how to reverse a trailer with a short drawbar. ;)
The potential for damage increase with the length of the drawbar. Any rocks flicked up by the towing vehicle hit the underside of the trailer and bounce down/away and are not returned to sender.
Yes, a long drawbar on the trailer makes it easier to reverse and provides lots of real estate to stash stuff but that stuff not only increase the ball weight it usually provides a nice surface to bounce rocks off.
YMMV