I have made up some side wind deflectors for my windscreen out of commercially available polycarbonate sheet. They work up to a point but for winter I am thinking about some full side screens ( A pillar to roll bar hoop.) Problem with the polycarbonate is that it seems to scratch very easily, gentle cleaning with a soft cloth seems to induce a lot of micro scratches. When I was at Silverstone last week for the Classic event I saw a number of historics with plastic screens that seemed to be scratch free. Was this old fashioned Perspex or some other material that I should use? Is there perhaps a special grade of polycarbonate that I need? Any advice welcomed.
Google Marguard expensive, should show equivalents that cost less. Used in forestry logging vehicles.
I thought the polycarbonate I used for my side screens was quite scratch resistant. It's also cheap enough to replace them every couple of
years.
Stu
Acrylic/perspex is more scratch resistant, but can shatter under impact. Not great....
I used.polycarbonate for a wind deflector for that reason, despite the commercially available ones being made of acrylic. Which also happens to be
cheaper.
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Originally posted by cliftyhanger
Acrylic/perspex is more scratch resistant, but can shatter under impact. Not great....
I used.polycarbonate for a wind deflector for that reason, despite the commercially available ones being made of acrylic. Which also happens to be cheaper.
) for my beach buggys windscreen and it cracked into long dagger like bits which were not much better than glass
tbh