Mk2 escort glass

[mk2 mike]

Can anyone recommend a supplier for a new front screen?

[68supermk1]

Does it have to be new i have a couple i bleave

[Vista]

I have a Heated windscreen in the Van from Ricky Evans Motorsport, they do standard clear and standard tinted screens too and all seem good quality. Personally I think the heated front screen is the most useful non performance mod I made to the van.

 

Standard screens

 

http://www.heatedwindscreen.com/acatalog/classic-ford.html

 

Heated screens

 

http://www.heatedwindscreen.com/acatalog/ford-heated-windscreens.html

[mk2 mike]

Thanks, that's a good idea. I'll look them up. Getting the car painted soon so thought I'd put a nice new screen in to freshen it up. Nothing looks worse than a freshly painted car with a chipped and scratched screen.

 

Scott, is it heated on a switch or permanently wired in?

[mk2 mike]

Does it have to be new i have a couple i bleave

 

Yeah, I'm going to treat myself lol. Thanks for the offer though.

[Vista]

Thanks, that's a good idea. I'll look them up. Getting the car painted soon so thought I'd put a nice new screen in to freshen it up. Nothing looks worse than a freshly painted car with a chipped and scratched screen.

 

Scott, is it heated on a switch or permanently wired in?

 

I wired it via a relay and a standard heated rear screen switch mounted in one of the spare switch slots in the dash.

 

Mine is a dual element one (each side of the screen is a different element) that they made for Safari rally cars and the current draw on it when wired as two separate circuits in parallel was very high so I connected the two earth lines together at the top of the screen and connected them in series so that one side of the screen has a 12v supply from the relay and the other is an earth (as opposed to 2 12v supplies and 2 earths). It takes fractionally longer to demist like that but not so as you'd notice in a road car.