Nigelw Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Might need to remove the rear side windows in the Disco 1 to comply with Dutch tax regs regards commercial vehicles. Been looking for some sort of composite blanking kit but can't find anything for my 3 door so would still need to find a solution for the two middle windows. Has anyone done anything with either flat ally panelling or chequer plate to good effect on their side windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveturnbull Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Can't help, but please don't make them out of chequerplate, they would look horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 Can't help, but please don't make them out of chequerplate, they would look horrible. If it were chequer plate then at the very least they'd be painted black as not to look too ridiculous!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Can you get away with just painting the glass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 or a very dark tint on the inside which will still let you see out through the glass. if the wondows are secured with a rubber seal, just replacing with a plain alloy panel should be easy enough to sort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiftedDisco Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Take a look around for something called Dibond - it's typically 2mm thick and is a composite panel of plastic core sanwiched between two layers of aluminuim facing. You should be able to create a cardboard template, then use this to mark and cut the Dibond, then mastic the resulting panel into place with RTV sealant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagger Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Vinyl film applied to the glass would be the easiest and cheapest method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydie Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Easy fix, if you're any good with fibreglass: Remove the rear windows, clean a sheet of glass bigger than the window by at least 50mm all round and lay it on a flat surface. Rub car wax polish onto the glass and then paint it with F/G resin , lay on a sheet of F/G cloth, as heavy a weight as you can obtain and paint more resin on - at this stage add to the resin some enamel paint as close to the body colour as possible to tint the cloth - make sure that the cloth is at least 25mm bigger than the glass allow 24 - 36 hours for it to set. Once it has set place a window that you have removed onto the fiberglass and draw out the final shape, remember it has to be at least 25mm bigger all round as you want it to be a good fit into the rear window recess, trim it to this rough shape. Put it up to the opening and trim it to the exact size of the rebate, run a bead of sikaflex around the opening press on the F/G (nice smooth side to the outside) panel and fix with wide head blind rivets. If you can obtain some kevlar cloth sheet leave it as is, (no colouring) it will look very impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW8IZR Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 My Discovery commercial was a four door with side windows, they were just a very very dark tint. You couldn't see anything through them although you could observe sun spots through them, so there was some light transmission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted December 2, 2015 Author Share Posted December 2, 2015 Happily told by RDW (DVSAin UK) that tints are not enough Have to abide by the rules too as they scrutineer it too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW8IZR Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Its interesting to see the differences in regs throughout EU - here in Norway we take a brand new top of the range LandCruiser, take the back seats out, fit a dog guard and put green plates on it. At the end of three years we stick it all back to normal and sell it as a car. As its a top of the range car it commands a very high price. It *almost* costs you nothing for three years motoring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted December 2, 2015 Author Share Posted December 2, 2015 Its interesting to see the differences in regs throughout EU - here in Norway we take a brand new top of the range LandCruiser, take the back seats out, fit a dog guard and put green plates on it. At the end of three years we stick it all back to normal and sell it as a car. As its a top of the range car it commands a very high price. It *almost* costs you nothing for three years motoring. My Irish registered Trooper had the seat belt mountings welded over and a steel boxed over rear footwell, at the time there it was once converted it couldn't be easily put back, at my last work place I stripped the rear seats out and put the wood floor in every year for the MOT, then swapped it back again, the heavy tints disguised your rear passengers, rarely got stopped as it was very clean and tidy and driven by a girl, the great art of tax avoidance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW8IZR Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Just had confirmation that the windows in brother in laws commercial Isuzu is a body coloured very thin aluminium sheet bonded to a plastic substrate. I reckon it wouldn't be hard to copy that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miketomcat Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 You could use coloured perspex or polycarbonate etc it's available in 6mm so just remove window draw round it cut the plastic and fit it. It cuts with a jigsaw and drills ok with a little care. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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