Thread: Rear window stone protection for towing

Some blokes here, who go a bit west, fresh water fishing, have mesh screens on their boat trailers shaped around the hull, (but attached to the trailer).

I assume they're there to keep the boat unmarked, but as they're angled downward, I suspect they'd solve the problem you describe, PCH.

Just a thought.

Cheers,

GQ

I've just stuck velcro to the rear windows on the Defender and on 3mm perspex which I cut to size myself and that seems to do the trick OK.
No window damage yet and cost about 25 bucks.
Alan H.

Originally Posted by PCH

Who has something fitted to their rear window to prevent a ricocheting stone from smashing the window.
On my Flinders Ranges trip a few months back I saw a D3 and also a Land Crusier both with camper trailers and cardboard on the rear windows. I suspect a stone busted their windows.

I saw a commercially made window protector in a mag but I think you could make it yourself if you could get clear flat polycarbonate sheet. This one seemed to be fixed with velcro and had slots cut into it from the edges (not sure what the slots were for).

What are people using?

Thanks,

Chris

You'll probably find that the cardboard was their window protector, alot use this method for rear window protection.

We got some perspect cut from a perspect supplier to fit our rear window and i have tried numerous ways of sticking it to the rear window with not much joy, the problem is the rear window is curved and velcro just doesn't hold it on when your cruising at 100kph.

I tape it on for the trips with gaffa tape now and take it off when i get home, i add some little rubber stick on things, those thingys that they put on glass top coffee tables to stop the glass resting on the coffee table frame, to keep the perspect off the window.

I might even revert back to the cardboard.

Baz.

For our previous vehicle (not a Land Rover) I made a cover up out of 3-4mm rubber sheet. I cut the rubber to exactly the same shape as the rear door and fabricated a channel section from PVC to fit around the top and sides. There is usually more than enough door panel gap to fit it. An ockky strap at the bottom of the cover onto another fitting(s) attached to the bottom of the door held it tight. Worked a treat.

No you obviously couldn't see through it but that is what side mirrors are for. It was easily removable so that if you were "in town" for a couple of days, you just took it off.

When travelling around OZ a few years ago (GRR etc), we heard some huge hits up back when rocks bounced back off the camper trailer onto the rear window. The cover well and paid for itself ...

I broke my window in the Flinders about 3 years ago. Had a stone protector on the trailer but stone may have bounced off spare tyre (mounted on front of trailer) Now use cardboard, foam and sometimes glad wrap (waterproof)and tape to secure

Hi PCH,
Yes i also have a clear perspex sheet cut to the shape of the D2 glass & it velcros to the rear of the window.
This way u can still see out the back when you have offloaded the Van & playing Offroad.
Its cheap & works very well, the velcro acts as a cushion & spacer at the same time.
Cheers

Just a thought......is there a relationship between rear window damage and trailer draw bar length.

Our camper is attached to an ex army trailer (short draw bar) and with all the miles (k's) on sub standard roads we have travelled, we have never encountered the problem.

Maybe just good luck, or did the Army inadvertently stumble upon a magic formula.

Like the idea of the perspex though.

Hi
I had a similar problem on my D1. Trailer threw up a stone and broke the rear screen notrh of Hughenden after drivingaround the bottom of the Gulf and across the Gibb river road. Only had half a kilometre of dirt left to drive. Very Frustating. I went to Supercheap and bought a set of rear louvre clips and cut a piece of polycarbonate to fit the rear screen then fitted the louvre clips. They work very well. I then transferred the protecter to my 04 D2. Still doing a great job.
Gary