Wind deflectors any good?

[carlo]

Quick question; anyone have experience of fitting wind deflectors to the front doors (or sunroof area). The 405 makes a bit of a racket above 60mph and I wondered if they may help.

[Rocket88]

I've fitted them to a couple of cars, and they do help, although more in the way of smoking fags at 70 mph! I suspect you may have banjaxed door seals..................

[vulgalour]

I love the deflectors on my brother's Skoda, they're great for ventilation at all speeds and don't add any extra noise. Also, fags at speed. I want to fit deflectors to all my cars!

[Spiny Norman]

The only two cars I've ever been happy using the sunroofs in both had wind deflectors on them, they make a huge difference IMO.

I've only ever had the door ones once, but if I wasn't so tight/lazy I'd put them on every car I had, they do cut down wind noise/rain ingress with the window down, particularly on modern gutterless aero cars. (I'm one of these people who ALWAYS drives with the window down an inch or two, no matter what)

[beko1987]

The fag @ 70 has sold it to me! Will hit the bay later!

 

I wish I'd fitted these to the Puma. Due to the gutterless design, washing the window/using the wipers at over 20mph resulted in all the water wiped off running onto my arm and over the window switches. I gave up caring in the end! Shitroen doesn't do it on the drivers side, although the first passenger I take in the wet will get a surprise!

[dollywobbler]

I'm considering them as I love ventilation but hate getting wet. From the 1970s onwards, car designers seemed to stop fitting any form of fresh air ventilation AND did away with opening quarterlights. Really annoys me that in both the BX and the Bluebird, you can't have warm toes and fresh air to the face. Yet I can in the 2CV.

 

If you're suffering from sunroof buffering, an easy way to cure it is to open a rear window slightly. I do this in the BX and in a rare bit of good design, you can quite easily reach the rear window winder from the driver's seat!

[DSdriver]

Would be a good idea on the Safari cos water collects on the roofrack well whilst parked and cascades off at the first corner. Trouble is the windows are frameless so nothing to fix to.

[Split_Pin]

I have them on my Vectra and Corsa, Heko ones.

 

They are great when its raining as you can have the window open without water cascading in and onto your right leg whenever you take a left hand bend.

 

However, they can actually make a little more noise than standard.

[Pete-M]

The sunroof ones are great. I've got one on the Granada (which is still here..) and had a couple on cars in the past. They work, and if they're fitted properly wind noise isn't an issue.

 

The door ones work, but I always seem to wish they weren't there whenever I drive a car with 'em. Unless it's an Alfa 75.

[messerschmitt owner]

Another vote for sunroof deflector.