It has been a long old wait but finally we have got sorted with the privacy windows for the v-trek van. A wait well worth waiting for! We have not seen any other camper van that has these particular windows in as yet. The beauty for them is that they look a limo black from the outside, but do not restrict the light from coming in. With the flush finish they look like a glass window, but actually they are a double glazed plastic pane. Take a look at the picture.
We have finally got some sense from the company that supply the seitz S6 window, and they said that we can have the new style tinted windows, there is one slight problem, all their sizes have changed!
The two side windows in the Mercedes van, behind the driver and passengers door will be slightly larger than anticipated (compared to the old V-trek van) at 1000mm x 600mm but this size is not too far out, as the window in the Mercedes door is 600mm at the widest point. The other problem that we have had to overcome is the rear window which fits in the composite back panel the smallest size in the tinted window range is 800 x 400mm and we only have room for 700 x 300mm, we have decided that because of the height of this window being near the roof line, and the fly net can always be pulled down to act as a net curtain for privacy, we are going to stick with the standard window without tinting in the rear panel, and hopefully the seitz S6 size range will get larger in the near future.
For the development of the V-trek Mercedes campervan we plan to put tinted windows in the camper, for security, keeping cool, and for the sheer good looks!
We are unable to tint standard campervan windows because the plastic window contracts and expands in different temperatures causing the tinted surface to bubble and ripple.
You would think that it would not be a problem as nearly every vehicle on the road has got tinted windows, but it is becoming a pretty big headache for us. The windows that we really would like to use are the Seitz S6 as they have everything that we need in a window, double glazed, fly-blinds, thermal blinds, and tinted. We have spoken to Dometic, the supplier, to see if we can purchase these windows for our van builds, but they said that they could only supply us if we were based in Europe, so if we are French or German we can have them, but as we are British we can’t!!
We cannot understand a company, that takes a new product to shows, promotes it to the trade and general public, brags about how good it is, and then says.’ BUT YOU CAN ‘ T HAVE ‘ EM.?
Has anyone had any dealings with this seitz S6 window or company Dometic, if so can you give me your feedback. Or alternatively if you are a company who supplies a similar window to the Seitz S6 I would be interested to hear from you.
