Wind Deflector

Hi Darth, those stick on ones look like they're fatter than the standard UK ones, but tiny compared to Oz ones.

thinking of maybe getting a sheet of acrylic from wickes and having a play with a heat gun and see what happens - I can use my standard Suzuki clip-in ones as templates :S

Hi Halford,
Not trying to dampen your enthusiuasm but I think you will struggle with the heat gun - it is too coarse a tool for the job - slightest over heating and it will bubble, you really need an oven and a decent former so it can be drape moulded. We have a couple of hot wire benders which are fine for straight folds and do quite a lot of work with plastic- vac forming etc and it isn't as easy as it sounds!

atb
Mike

Yeh Mike think you're right,
bending the horizontal section would be ok, as would the 70' vertical - but where they meet would be a proper arse :pinch:

Does sound though as if you're the man to start production for the UK market :whistle:

Hello!

Can somebody, who has these genuine Suzuki wind deflectors, measure their size and inform us?

I need that because I do not live in UK, and these items are not available in my country (well they are from a local Suzuki dealer, but at a ridiculous price).

My idea is that a friend of mine buys them in UK, and then brings them over to me on his next pending visit.
As he will be coming by airplane, there is obviously a limitation on the size of the items which he can put in his luggage bags.

That is why I am asking for the dimensions. I would appreciate the dimension of each "section" of the deflector, as well as its diagonal dimension (the diagonal distance from one end to the other).


P.S.: Does anyone have an idea of the approx. weight of each deflector?


Kind regards!

I had a set of wind deflectors G3 ones took them off because the window had trouble closing, it really struggled when it started to go in-between the deflectors and the window rubber

Never done this before (though often wanted to) but I had a set of deflectors that were enormous so this week I cut them back about 75% with a Dremel. Now they are just big enough to keep rain out with the window slightly cracked open. I followed the line of the tinting; I have seen better but at least it works.

They were originally stuck on and had clips; I spent ages removing the sticky residue on the doors. I left the residue on the deflectors for thickness and then I replaced them just using the clips.