Sun strip

[euro dave]

Since our car is fully stripped out, we have no sunvisors.  So the obvious solution is to put a small sun strip on the windscreen made of Fablon or similar vinyl.  All well and good, but the MOT / Police will fail anything that encroaches into the swept area of the wipers by 1cm.

This means I get a 2cm depth to play with.  Useless.  So either I'm blinded by the sun, or illegal.  I could get visors but this isn't really in keeping with the budget!

I'm tempted to put a 4 inch strip on, and risk it with the confidence I can explain the reason or remove it quickly if needbe.  Anyone else had issues as other people must have strips too?  It's not as if I use the car all the time anyway.

[Diamond Hell]

Why can't you put the sun-visors back on? 

[danny_p]

cut the windscreen wipers down   

[Ben Lessani]

cut the windscreen wipers down   

Lol, that's what I was thinking.

Or just get a helmit with a tinted visor?

[euro dave]

I was thinking about the wiper option too - drastic as it is, there's no loss of vision because there will be a strip there anyway.....

The helmet visor isn't an option as we use the car on the road without helmets.

I don't fancy risking the MOT / plod, so a rethink is in order

The reason I can't put the visors back on is because I don't have any to put back on, and every expenditure is being kept to a minimum - plus I don't have a local scrappie so it'd be quicker just to fashion some new ones out of the spare alloy I've got

[Ben Lessani]

Use sunglasses for road use? Its never that sunny in the UK that it warrants a visor - just around this time of year at about 6pm when the sun is low.

[euro dave]

I know what you mean, but the seats are pretty low in the car anyway and you definitely do need to completely block the sun out at some points of the day.  As you say, it's only a half hour portion of each day but I don't fancy getting caught out.

I drove it the other day and I really couldn't see a thing, I had to do a U-turn and go back as it just wasn't safe.

[Horney]

How do the chav's get away with their massive sunstrips?

I've got a VW Motorpsort one I bought years ago that I never fitted which I was thinking of putting on my MKII.

Nick

[Diamond Hell]

How do the chav's get away with their massive sunstrips?

The same way as they get away with their HID kits and other random illegal tat?

Why would you fit a screen to your Golf, Nick?  You looking to join the chavs? 

It surely must be possible to re-fit sun-visors back in the car.  As you've pointed out - they're *kind of* important.

[Horney]

The oly reason was I have it sat in my folks shed and thought that a VW Motorsport Sun Strip would look good on a track car. It's aslo white, like the car.

Nick