Rear Window Tint / Polarising???? Going insane
Discussion
As anyone who's seen my car can testify, it's not garage jewellery and I like to use it as often as possible. This especially includes long drives to see my sister (500 miles round trip) - taking the 'sensible saloon' means £200 of petrol, whereas the VXT is much more frugal, and much more fun 
However during the winter months it's almost guaranteed that I'll be driving in the dark. And as everyone here with an Elise / Exige or a VX220 will know, modern HID lamps on normal cars, and even worse any car-on-stilts or 4x4, are absolutely blinding when sitting on your tail in traffic.
Obviously on open roads I can get away, but in towns, in traffic jams or on busy motorways, new xenon-lighted cars and high 4x4s simply blind me to the point of being utterly dangerous. I've got out of my car in gridlocked town before to ask the guy behind to dim his lights as they were blinding me, but this isn't an option when the traffic is moving, however slowly.
One option is to just rip off the rear view mirror, but I like to know what's behind me because I know I can brake a lot harder than the average and if I've got a boy racer chasing me I don't want to slam on the anchors because there'll be a crash.
Is there any polarising filter-type solution that would work on the rear screen to mitigate against being completely blinded by inconsiderate bastards with massively powerful headlights? It's not even as if they're the sort of
s who deliberately drive right up your tail with full beams on - it's just that modern 'dipped' HID beams are bright enough to be a real problem in a low-slung car like all the Elise-chassis variants.
I've had a few guys in Range Rovers / etc. switch to sidelights when stuck behind me in town (obviously own, or have owned in the past, a low sports car before) but they are the exception, not the rule.
However during the winter months it's almost guaranteed that I'll be driving in the dark. And as everyone here with an Elise / Exige or a VX220 will know, modern HID lamps on normal cars, and even worse any car-on-stilts or 4x4, are absolutely blinding when sitting on your tail in traffic.
Obviously on open roads I can get away, but in towns, in traffic jams or on busy motorways, new xenon-lighted cars and high 4x4s simply blind me to the point of being utterly dangerous. I've got out of my car in gridlocked town before to ask the guy behind to dim his lights as they were blinding me, but this isn't an option when the traffic is moving, however slowly.
One option is to just rip off the rear view mirror, but I like to know what's behind me because I know I can brake a lot harder than the average and if I've got a boy racer chasing me I don't want to slam on the anchors because there'll be a crash.
Is there any polarising filter-type solution that would work on the rear screen to mitigate against being completely blinded by inconsiderate bastards with massively powerful headlights? It's not even as if they're the sort of
s who deliberately drive right up your tail with full beams on - it's just that modern 'dipped' HID beams are bright enough to be a real problem in a low-slung car like all the Elise-chassis variants.I've had a few guys in Range Rovers / etc. switch to sidelights when stuck behind me in town (obviously own, or have owned in the past, a low sports car before) but they are the exception, not the rule.
Hi
Have a friend of mine who works by me for these guys. Would love to see this type of thing more readily available...would certainly solve the galre problem and look uber cool at the same time.
http://www.chromogenics.se/index_eng.htm
Have a friend of mine who works by me for these guys. Would love to see this type of thing more readily available...would certainly solve the galre problem and look uber cool at the same time.
http://www.chromogenics.se/index_eng.htm
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