Broken rear windows

G'day Kim


Yerr....may be OK for the Birdsville Track and Tanami Road but come the first serious bush creek crossing and those things are history....lol


Cheers

Hi Kim,

A few years ago I made myself up a similar design from conveyor belt rubber.

It sort of worked, but I found that when I was travelling in wheel tracks they swept rocks up from these and made the situation worse.

I did not do any heavy 4WD stuff with the and if I had say, used them in mud, I think they would have been totalled pretty quickly.

I have seen these Rock Tamers ones at the Penrith Show. They do look great , but are very expensive .

Willie.

In my opinion the only real answer (proven time and time again by us) is to cover the rear window - and the best stuff is a uv impervious product called Tuffex - 2mm thick - does not crack in the sun like perspex - ours lasted years - we attached it initially with velcro - but dust, rain and heat is a problem, so we got some suction caps that have a screw fitting, drilled holes and put them on - never had a problem after that. There is a mob sometimes mentioned on here called "obeys outback" O'Briens or something like that - they supply them with velcro attachments.
jules

I did 19,000km through Central Australia without a single stonechip on the rear door.

I attached shadecloth to the front of the trailer and to a bar that attached to the rear bumper. Each edge was cable-tied to an occy strap to stop the edges sagging down.

Also see these topics for stone guards Topic 64795 and Topic 64541
RodN