20 kN
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Feb 2, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Feb 2009
· Points: 1,346
Okay, so in my case for my hatchback car. Anyway, below seems to be the best option I have found so far. Ideas for keeping it in place? What do you do in your vehicle?
We used the same material to cut the covers for the windows on our helicopter at work.
We used the small round Velcro stickers to keep them up and they held well except when it got over 140 degrees in the aircraft and the adhesive melted.
wade z
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Feb 2, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Feb 2015
· Points: 0
How did you do it? My wife made cardboard inserts for the windows of our "Smellement". They work and are easy to store, but aren't too durable.
My van had the accordiam scrims, and curtains for non-scrim windows except front. And I went cheap on that section. I have a length of blue velvet material(reclaimed from the back of bench seat in previous van). It had a seam sewn in that allowed me to run a length of accessory cord through. Loop off at each end and I use toy biners to snag the ends along the decorative/mood light-hiding wooden panels set above the windows. This fits right up against the section behind the front seats - allows cops to see "in" but not see IN. The accessory cord has stretch built in, so this is nice for not having to be perfect in length.
If I had a vehicle without the set up, and wanted a front view privacy, I would probably snake some sort of oversized safety pin through the fabric on the roof, and clip the toy biners into that. Not the best option for someone who wants to keep things "nice," or gets drunk and is likely to stumble into the screen and rip the pins out like they were cams set by a sport climber falling on their first gear lead, but there is something to be be said for doing things on a budget.
We do the exact same setup in our Element to sleep in the parking lot at ski resorts. - Use a single crash pad in the back to flatten / stabilize the bed over the seats. Run the heat for a bit. Helps to have a remote starter so you can start the car in the am from the sleeping bag.
Cut it to size, and tuck the remaining couple millimeters between the plastic around the windows.
Those panels keep it toasty and comfortable. Not to mention they block out 100% of the light both ways. We can have all the lights on or watch a movie and no one notices anything...
Highly recommended!
Ryan N
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Feb 2, 2015
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Bellingham, WA
· Joined May 2009
· Points: 195
I do the same in our van. I used reflectex and doubled it up one smaller to fit glass exactly and one slightly larger to fit the rim around the glass. It makes a huge difference. It's not uncommon to find ice on the window but be relatively comfortable in the van. The money tip though is to use an HVAC metal duct tape around the edges. When you double up on it, it then makes the edges readily moldable over and over. The advantage to this is it allows the edges to me pressed exactly to the window and lets NO light through, which is key when trying to be stealth. It also adds another way to adhere the two pieces together.
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