As in I just realized that usual crappy swing down arrangment has remained unchanged since when?? bound to be 50 years anyway.

Driving into low Sun over the holiday period.

and they are, at best, a botched solution.

Why not "reactolite rapide" type windscreen glass.

Or perhaps some electronic wizardy.

Bugger .....................QWERTY

Edited 2 January, 201313 yr by dieseldogg

Oakley make some cracking ones. Portable too, so you can use them in all of your vehicles.

My dads first car had a dark green perspex sun visor, fairly sure there wasn't one for the passenger. About 53 or 4, a Hillman shooting break, battleship grey with the back half coach built by castles in Leicester.

Is it Skodateile has a double visor so you can turn one round to stop you being blinded from the side too?

I remember I had a K plate Merc that had a third sun visor in the middle for when the sun shifted round the side of the main visor.

Oakley make some cracking ones. Portable too, so you can use them in all of your vehicles.

Unfortunately I need perscription glasses so cant have Oakleys without paying through the nose but I do keep a pair of specsavers cheapies in the car for sunny days

^^^ The Octavia 1 had that too. Usefully effective.

The problem is when the sun (big round yellow thing) is shining strongly from the side one minute then from the front then back again. Perhaps this only happens "abroad"? Anyway the horrid sun thing always seems to get round my shades (correct, current nomenclature?).

I remember I had a K plate Merc that had a third sun visor in the middle for when the sun shifted round the side of the main visor.

Unfortunately I need perscription glasses so cant have Oakleys without paying through the nose but I do keep a pair of specsavers cheapies in the car for sunny days

Try Shutter Glasses that fit over your real glasses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Shades

Winter sun is a serious problem, mostly amplified by poor quality optics a dirty windscreen (as per mikeholroyd) is a major contributor to incidents, but a far greater contributory factor is people faffing with 'features'. Reactolite or similar lenses are not advised for any sports near-vision - let alone as a wind screen.

Your sensory path will recognise changes in lighting magnitude far faster than any optics can, and the brain, knowing about it's ability to sense these changes quickly adapts to enable you to see (&sense) features of interest.

Variable dynamic shading is a big no-no in aviation, military and sports. And in IMHO it should be for driving too.

If you are against the sun for so long that you need more than a flap down blind, then you should invest in some proper sun glasses; Pay for some Oakleys and they'll last you 6 years+ If your eyesight is changing so much that you don't want to plump for the prescription version, then all the more reason for not wanting something else to dynamically dull the world.

As far as blinkering technology goes, a stretchy screen which you can more easily position may be of benefit for long into sun journeys, but the fact is, you wanna keep this **** on your head.

A year of driving from Notts (and on the M180) to Grimsby at dawn taught me a lot about windscreen wipers, sunglasses and having your lights on!

The rest is from being a pilot. See it; don't ignore it.

I too wear prescription lenses, and have worked for years with Reactolite types, which generally turn darker in snow cover than sunshine.

Which has tended to rule out sunglasses of whatever brand.

Currently working with a newish set of Varifocals (despite asking for bi-focals, which I tink would have been better, sigh)

A road I regurarly travelled 35 or so year ago was a proper educator re sun glare.

A steady incline up a mountain side into the setting sun.

There were times it was almost impossible to see as the Sun absolutly perfectly lined up with the carrigeway.

Even as an 18 year old I slowed to a crawl, as the twerps coming with the Sun at their back were still motoring on.

Cos.hey they could see.

My dads first car had a dark green perspex sun visor, fairly sure there wasn't one for the passenger. About 53 or 4, a Hillman shooting break, battleship grey with the back half coach built by castles in Leicester.

Is it Skodateile has a double visor so you can turn one round to stop you being blinded from the side too?

http://www.skodateile.cz/index.php?pg=product∏=34&menu=%C5%A0koda|Octavia%20II%28A5%29|Dal%C5%A1%C3%AD%20p%C5%99%C3%ADslu%C5%A1enstv%C3%AD&img_b=IMG_1266.JPG&album_adr=/album&album_start=0

They're just the sunvisors available on some models as standard on the continent. Despite being the top of the line L&K, when I ordered my car, Skoda just would not fit them on mine from factory, amongst a few other choice things our euro cousins get. :wonder:

I'd like a drivers's side one, but i'm not paying £44 +postage for it!

^^ Maybe worth a look in a foreign skoda shop then?

As a speccy git, going into and out of the sun is not really the problem. I have several prescription shades, which give me protection most of the time. But the sudden appearance round the side is what causes the difficulties.

While I appreciate the points zacherynuk is making, I don't have to deal with incusions into my airspace. In fact, I rarely have to consider the 3rd dimension at all. Just the sun coming round behind my glasses or shades - very sneaky.

Merc have 2 visors, 1 for the front and 1 for the side. Tinted glass like with glasses would be good but not if they did the same at night with headlights, could be dangerous and I would imagine it to be fairly costly?

Edited 3 January, 201313 yr by zeffania

I remember I had a K plate Merc that had a third sun visor in the middle for when the sun shifted round the side of the main visor.

My car has this just above the rear view mirror. Very handy.

Phil

http://www.skodateil...m&album_start=0

They're just the sunvisors available on some models as standard on the continent. Despite being the top of the line L&K, when I ordered my car, Skoda just would not fit them on mine from factory, amongst a few other choice things our euro cousins get. :wonder:

I'd like a drivers's side one, but i'm not paying £44 +postage for it!

Emailed the link to my dealer and he said they ARE available in this country at about £47 including vat.

The golf 5 had good sun visors

When you positioned them on side they were telescopic

Fiat had pull down smoked plastic sun-shades in the 70's. Fantastic things, there's one in my shed here for sale if anyone is interested.

I live in a very sunny place and sun-glasses are not a subsitute for sun-shades. You need both.

The sun shades prevent the sun from shining directly into your eyes, the sun-glasses take care of the brightness reflecting off everything.

Sun-strike is a bigger problem in winter when the sun is lower and gets to your eyes underneath the sun-shades.

Exactly