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Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:40 am
by SuperDougy
July, 8th 2011
My Corolla is my daily driver. That also means driving the kids around town. At the moment I'm running tint free to keep the police less suspicious of my Levin but I had to find a way to keep the sun off the kids while sitting in the back seat. I tried a set of sun shades from BabiesRUs but that was a big fail. I ended up finding a sun shade for a 2006 VW Passat part# 3C0 064 360 that worked. The original price was $90 but now you can pick them up from any VW dealer for $13. The quality is very nice and looks very OEM and is pretty much fully extended. It was easy to install. Just two screws mounted into the rear speaker shelves. If your worried about the holes they are hidden under the rear speaker grills if you ever decide to remove the sun shade. Plus two hooks that slip behind the upper hatch roof molding. It took me five minutes to install. My cargo cover still has freedom of movement and can be removed. But the sun shade will come in contact with the average height adult passenger's head in the back seat due to the angle of the sun shade. So I would only recommend it for short passengers and car seats.
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Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:02 am
by EJ86
...on coupes it requires a lil more mod modifications:
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:37 pm
by Spoold86
sweet write up, i could really use this in socal xD
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:09 pm
by AE86reaper
this is so awesome, by the way your part number on the written section is different then the pictures part number
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 9:10 pm
by builtnotbought
This is awesome and very creative. It's gonna be on my do it list
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 1:32 pm
by Turtle
you win 50 points. Very creative and excellent use of good OEM equipment. imma go out and buy this now.
R
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:18 pm
by Turtle
Boo... none at the local VW dealer. buying online.
R
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 11:42 am
by marley4us
Thank you so much for this DIY, just ordered mine!
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 12:38 pm
by moonshine71
Marley4us, Can you pls tell me where you bought yours? Thanks!
KC
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 8:36 pm
by marley4us
Moss brothers VW in moreno valley ca, they had to order it. but ya i think it was 15 bucks
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:38 am
by carbd7age
I need to do this for my Camry. My son Dude gets pretty warm back there sometimes.
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 2:31 pm
by marley4us
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 1:39 pm
by yellowsnow4free
I guess this question is for everyone who has purchased one of these, but where did you get it? VW dealer? Online? Junkyard?
Thanks!
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:00 am
by EJ86
yellowsnow4free wrote:I guess this question is for everyone who has purchased one of these, but where did you get it? VW dealer? Online? Junkyard?
Thanks!
VW Dealer, it's an accessory you can buy, just give them the part no...
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:08 pm
by yellowsnow4free
EJ86 wrote:VW Dealer, it's an accessory you can buy, just give them the part no...
Thanks EJ86, I went to my local VW dealer today and special ordered it; it's $10 now!
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:42 am
by jromo04
Very nice man
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:24 pm
by Tibby
Awsome diy my lil one and me both thank you for this idea lol got mine orderd today for 8.62 online
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:54 am
by jonzhuxD
Is there any way someone could measure the width of the sun shade for me? I don't really like the look of tinted cars but my passengers in my FR-S are getting roasted in the heat, I want to see if this would fit my car.
Thanks much
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:58 pm
by SuperDougy
It's been a while since I checked this DIY and I'm really happy to see so many people using it.
jonzhuxD wrote:Is there any way someone could measure the width of the sun shade for me? I don't really like the look of tinted cars but my passengers in my FR-S are getting roasted in the heat, I want to see if this would fit my car.
Thanks much
I'll try and post the width of the sun shade when I get the chance to measure it but currently my 86 is in the shop. Hopefully someone on here will beat me to it.
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:34 pm
by invalidsubject
I should have done this a while back! Thanks for the post!
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:12 am
by teun
Very OEM looking! Will definitely do this come summer.
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:33 pm
by SuperDougy
Please post your photos of your install. It's always nice to see different takes on the same install. [emoji41][emoji106]
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:24 pm
by ae86714
Anyone got a good source for these now? Seeing a few posts here saying price went up, and the link a few posts up that says its was 10 and 20 shipping, the price is now 133$ on that site! this was an awesome super cost efficient mod, but at that price not so much.
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 9:26 am
by Deuce Cam
I was also thinking about doing this. I searched around online and the best I could find was $120 unfortunately.
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 9:29 am
by yellowsnow4free
ae86714 wrote:Anyone got a good source for these now? Seeing a few posts here saying price went up, and the link a few posts up that says its was 10 and 20 shipping, the price is now 133$ on that site! this was an awesome super cost efficient mod, but at that price not so much.
Deuce Cam wrote:I was also thinking about doing this. I searched around online and the best I could find was $120 unfortunately.
I never checked the price online; I just went to my local VW dealer and had them look up the part number. It was $10 for me back in June of 2013.
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 9:34 am
by SuperDougy
It seems the price went back to retail pricing. They must of had a huge overstocked supply and had to move them out for a short while. But there are other vehicles that use similar shades and sizes. But it seems the awesome $10 deal may be gone. [emoji16]
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:26 am
by ae86714
I found one on Amazon that seems to get okay reviews at least, but its still a lot more expensive than 10$!($69.99 Prime) It would appear that the dimensions would be a good match, I measured the rear hatch section across the top and it seems to be right around the 40 inch neighborhood.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008VM0TLO/ref ... BLQQPOUEE4I am hoping something cheaper comes along, I'll give it some time and keep looking some more.
Re: Rear Sun Shade
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:52 am
by SuperDougy
You would also have to check the shade length to make sure you have a little extra slack for hooking the top in place.
If I new the price was going to go up I would have bought a few extras for future projects.