Thread: Front windscreen sun shade to suit D3/4

Originally Posted by Tankmat

(i) Could be done but there is quite a rise going onto the A pillar and the cover might not sit as flush against the windscreen. Might flap around a bit.

(ii) The door tabs keep the cover in place nicely probably don’t need the wiper blades to hold it. The Drifter standard cover is made of insulation and covered in canvas while the custom extension is just canvas. For better insulation of the cabin just thought it would be good to have the installation section cover the full window. The design is excellent goes in place in a minute.

I've just been out doing some measurements, and the rise of the A pillars is minuscule compared to the overall curve of my windscreen.

Having said that, I now have some excellent points to get my own design completed!

Originally Posted by Tankmat

Got my custom D4 Drifta windscreen cover with bottom extension today. Looks well made and insulation should reduce cabin temperature considerably. The custom cover appears to be the Drifta standard cover (which stops above the windscreen wipers) and has a bottom extension that folds over the wipers and the cowl. The coverage is very good but my only issues is that the extension, on each side, isn’t quite wide enough and misses 20 mm (x2 = 40mm) at the top and 50 (x2 = 100mm) at the bottom, see pictures. If anyone is thinking about getting one made I would request this extra width for full coverage.
On another note, I think the D3/D4 standard cover which stops above the wipers has relatively poor coverage and really should have been designed to go under the wipers and sit on the top part of the cowl. Wouldn’t be a bad idea to have this also on the custom cover. Then have the extension on top to cover the wipers and cowl completely.

I wasn’t entirely happy that the extension piece runs down at 90 degrees from the standard cover when it should have followed the angle of the windscreen (like the standard cover does). As a result, there is a small section of the plastic windscreen cowl exposed on each side.

Update, I got Kaito to sew a triangular section onto each side of the extension to cover these gaps. I discussed with Kaito that it might be a good idea to make this custom extension an option on the Drifta website as I imagine a number of people might be interested. Kaito thought it was a good idea since he’d already received several phone calls about the extension.

Very happy with the result.