Climair every time.
Got them on my 90 and my wife's Freelander and they are excellent. Easy fitting and have no effect whatsoever on the closing of the window if correctly fitted.
Saw that article in LRM last year and they made fitting look like a real faff while in actual fact it is dead easy, I spent longer cleaing the glass etc than it took to fit the deflectors themselves.
The end results speak for themselves, the clip-in type look far superior to the stick on ones.
Got them on my 90 and my wife's Freelander and they are excellent. Easy fitting and have no effect whatsoever on the closing of the window if correctly fitted.
Saw that article in LRM last year and they made fitting look like a real faff while in actual fact it is dead easy, I spent longer cleaing the glass etc than it took to fit the deflectors themselves.
The end results speak for themselves, the clip-in type look far superior to the stick on ones.
teddywood1
Well-Known Member
it is the clips narrowing the channel the window goes in ,and it courses a bit pull on the window and if your cables are old and getting thin ,well they can break that why I went for the stick on ones and they do not come off easy.
roshe25
Active Member
sounds like a good idea ..
i know there are some 'plastics' that are super slippery
recently replaced some bone guitar nuts with a special 'plastic' type
they're designed to prevent binding of the steel strings .. and work well
( as well as retaining a good 'tone' .. as run-of-the-mill plastic kills the tone )
in anycase .. wind deflectors or not .. the window cables will wear out 'n break .. someday .. fact-o-hippo-life
Nodge68
Well-Known Member
sounds like a good idea ..
i know there are some 'plastics' that are super slippery
recently replaced some bone guitar nuts with a special 'plastic' type
they're designed to prevent binding of the steel strings .. and work well
( as well as retaining a good 'tone' .. as run-of-the-mill plastic kills the tone )
in anycase .. wind deflectors or not .. the window cables will wear out 'n break .. someday .. fact-o-hippo-life
I use Delrin in my air rifles as it's such a slippery plastic
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sounds like a good idea ..
i know there are some 'plastics' that are super slippery
recently replaced some bone guitar nuts with a special 'plastic' type
they're designed to prevent binding of the steel strings .. and work well
( as well as retaining a good 'tone' .. as run-of-the-mill plastic kills the tone )
in anycase .. wind deflectors or not .. the window cables will wear out 'n break .. someday .. fact-o-hippo-life
You mean the tusq xl nuts by graphtech? I use those they are very good. Although youll never convince the purist 'cork sniffers' with them lol coz it's gotta be bone for tone lol
yeah .. i think so ( i.e. the brand name )
i'd have to find the packaging or research my internet orders to be 100% sure
2 years ago .. i built myself a strat from WDmusic parts ..
swamp-ash body - maple neck (fretboard) .. fixed bridge with KTS titanium saddles
stained the body with 'amber-leaf' tobacco mixed with turps .. finished in hard-wax-oil
about the same time .. bought a mexican fender tele thinline ( hollow body ) to set up
for playing slide on open string tuning .. and did not like the nut it came with
( nor the pickups ) .. am fairly sure it were a plastic nut .. and it had to go pronto
so took a chance on those tusq nuts .. and as far as i'm concerned they're great ..
( i've a squire jv strat with a bone nut for comparison .. also fixed bridge )
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sorry .. that were off topic
er .. wind deflectors .. yeah worth it .. stickies or clip ins ..
they sure cut down wind noise when window be open ..
yeah .. i think so ( i.e. the brand name )
i'd have to find the packaging or research my internet orders to be 100% sure
2 years ago .. i built myself a strat from WDmusic parts ..
swamp-ash body - maple neck (fretboard) .. fixed bridge with KTS titanium saddles
stained the body with 'amber-leaf' tobacco mixed with turps .. finished in hard-wax-oil
about the same time .. bought a mexican fender tele thinline ( hollow body ) to set up
for playing slide on open string tuning .. and did not like the nut it came with
( nor the pickups ) .. am fairly sure it were a plastic nut .. and it had to go pronto
so took a chance on those tusq nuts .. and as far as i'm concerned they're great ..
( i've a squire jv strat with a bone nut for comparison .. also fixed bridge )
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sorry .. that were off topic
er .. wind deflectors .. yeah worth it .. stickies or clip ins ..
they sure cut down wind noise when window be open ..
Oooh a fellow Guitar tinkerer
Im into doing setups and stuff but have not built a guitar yet. You ever been over to mylespaul? theres some amazing build threads over there in luthiers corner
pardec
Active Member
What i have on mine, you won't regret it
I fitted the Heko clip in wind deflectors today.
They do restrict some of your view from the drivers seat.
More on passenger side as it partially covers the mirror.
Right turns are a bit harder now also due to my view being restricted.
Hopefully, I will get used to them, but if I don't then I may remove them.
They do restrict some of your view from the drivers seat.
More on passenger side as it partially covers the mirror.
Right turns are a bit harder now also due to my view being restricted.
Hopefully, I will get used to them, but if I don't then I may remove them.
Nodge68
Well-Known Member
You get used to them. The Freelander driver has a particularly good vista compared to other cars. If you think a Freelander with deflectors is bad you want to try my wife's Astra GTC, the pillars are so thick you have massive blind spots in all directions. This makes driving it a tiring affair, I'm looking forward to my trip to work in the Freelander after a weeks holiday driving the GTC.
