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Side vent windows

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:43 am
by flyfishn
Has anyone come up with a solution so when it is raining you can keep the vent windows open (while parked) and not flood the van. Would the plastic visors work on those windows?

Re: Side vent windows

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 11:17 am
by Green1
there are specialized platic covers for those windows, but good luck finding them...
If you are parked, I would consider some form of tarp like material that magnets to the side of the vehicle above the window... seems plausible..

personally I only open the front windows because they have the monsoon guards.

Re: Side vent windows

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:41 pm
by flyfishn
Thanks. Sorry I meant while parked at a store etc.

Re: Side vent windows

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:08 pm
by Green1
well... the first obvious suggestion is to close the windows if it's raining ;-)
I don't really have a good way of leaving them open, except as stated earlier, those plastic guards, but they aren't easy to find for the side windows.

One thing I have considered though to make opening and closing them easier, is to scavange the motors and switches from a domestic mini-van in the scrap yard with the power rear windows, seems to me that it should be a relatively simple mod to make power pop-out windows that way...

Re: Side vent windows

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 8:02 am
by almac
just install a solar vent instead... :-D
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info.php ... ts_id=2133

Re: Side vent windows

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 9:58 pm
by Green1
almac wrote:just install a solar vent instead... :-D
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info.php ... ts_id=2133
As long as you don't have a crystal-lite roof... because if you do, I have no idea where you'll put a 7" diameter vent!