Security grills for estate car windows

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#1291233 25-Apr-2015 10:36

Jase2985: Just blackout tint the rear windows and put a security tint on it
http://www.tintacar.co.nz/tint/unbreakable

That might be an idea. Less unattractive than actual grills, although less deterrent.

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#1291237 25-Apr-2015 10:59

This will be no good if the spare is under the floor like most cars, but what about a lockable drawer?
They're most common in vans and utes, but I see no reason why they can't go in a station wagon (aside from the spare wheel issue).

http://www.stowtec.co.nz/drawers
http://www.camcoindustries.co.nz/archbox
http://www.rxi.com.au/stationwagon-drawers-australia

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#1291265 25-Apr-2015 12:02

estate car

1. (Automotive Engineering) Brit a car with a comparatively long body containing a large carrying space, reachedthrough a rear door: usually the back seats can be folded forward to increase the carrying space. Also called (espUS, Canadian, Austral, and NZ): station wagon

Ah, but I cannot find why the Brits call their station wagons this ? What is the origin of the name ? Was it something for Lords to get around their 'Estates' ?

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#1291266 25-Apr-2015 12:09

Fully Equipped in Lower Hutt do cargo barriers.

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#1291323 25-Apr-2015 15:22

Geektastic:
Jase2985: Just blackout tint the rear windows and put a security tint on it
http://www.tintacar.co.nz/tint/unbreakable

That might be an idea. Less unattractive than actual grills, although less deterrent.

if you put a blackout tint on it as well no one can see whats in the car full stop

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#1291343 25-Apr-2015 16:17

Station wagon and wagon are the common names in American, Canadian, New Zealand , Australian and Australian, while estate car and estate are common in the rest of the English-speaking world. Both names harken to the car's role as a shuttle, with storage space for baggage, between country estates and train stations. Having shared antecedents with the British shooting-brake (originally a wooden-bodied vehicle used to carry shooting parties with their equipment and game), station wagons have been marketed as breaks, using the French term (which is sometimes given fully as break de chasse, literally "hunting break." Early U.S. models often had exposed wooden bodies and were therefore called woodies.[4]

Also see history section of wikipedia for station wagon.

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#1291346 25-Apr-2015 16:22

From memory station wagons can have something like 90% blackout behind the B pillar. Definitely worth considering instead or in conjunction with IMO.

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#1291363 25-Apr-2015 16:48

At one stage an Estate/wagon could only have blackout tinting if the back seats were removed and it was registered as a commercial van. Hopefully, for the OP, this has been changed.

Caging the rear compartment is a good deterrent, but maybe a little costly and very commercial looking.

Perhaps a cargo barrier behind the back seat, and the darkest tint available for all of the rear windows, in conjunction with the unbreakable film over that?

Pretty sure the tint people can provide small stickers to advertise the secure film if anyone gets close enough, if you wanted a deterrent, of sorts.

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#1291474 25-Apr-2015 19:36

Stu: At one stage an Estate/wagon could only have blackout tinting if the back seats were removed and it was registered as a commercial van. Hopefully, for the OP, this has been changed.

Caging the rear compartment is a good deterrent, but maybe a little costly and very commercial looking.

Perhaps a cargo barrier behind the back seat, and the darkest tint available for all of the rear windows, in conjunction with the unbreakable film over that?

Pretty sure the tint people can provide small stickers to advertise the secure film if anyone gets close enough, if you wanted a deterrent, of sorts.

This must have changed as many are supplied with privacy glass from the factory now.

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#1291511 25-Apr-2015 20:46

Station wagons are the same as a normal saloon and the max tinted overlay must still give a 35% visual light transmission.
Before you pay a lot of money for the tint to be applied check that it would still meet the WOF regulations.. Factory tinted glass is different to a tinted overlay

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#1291539 25-Apr-2015 22:14

Jase2985:
Geektastic:
Jase2985: Just blackout tint the rear windows and put a security tint on it
http://www.tintacar.co.nz/tint/unbreakable

That might be an idea. Less unattractive than actual grills, although less deterrent.

if you put a blackout tint on it as well no one can see whats in the car full stop

True but that wouldn't necessarily stop them breaking the window to find out!

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#1291588 26-Apr-2015 07:23

I've left my vehicle with tools in the back but covered with some boxes of firewood. From the outside you just see xomething of low value to most opportunists. From the look of many cars I see they're doing something similar just with old clothing and junk food wrappers.

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#1291591 26-Apr-2015 07:41

http://autotransform.co.nz/category/commercial-vehicles/
The op should contact autotransform in Auckland as the do van conversions and may be able to help with security

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