Robert from Windrestrictor is a real innovator, the first to deliver a laser etched illuminated windscreen for the Saturn Sky, and now the first to provide a permanent mount installation for inside the cockpit (mounted behind the seats). PimpMySky.com was able to get ahold of one of new windrestrictors custom-etched for one of the founders of the Phoenix Sky & Solstice Car Club.

At first glance, you will notice that the new windrestrictor is TWICE as thick as the first model. The orginal product, modelled after the Kappashere wind deflector, was created to be mounted in the trunk seal, so it had to be thin. Even at 1/8" of an inch, however, closing the trunk with the windrestrictor in place required and extra-hard slam. More importantly, our recommendation was that you remove the windrestrictor when you put the top up to minimize any strain it might put on the trunk seal, rear window, and roof. With the new in-cockpit model, however, you can leave the product in all the time.

Our pre-production model came without some of the felt, velcro, and wiring that the production models will come with, but installation was a snap. We double-checked the wiring diagrams on the vehicle, to find the perfect place to splice in the power, and decided to go with the parking lights, which is a dark brown wire shrink-wrapped to a black wire in the wiring harness. For the do-it-yourself non-technical installer, finding and tapping into the correct wire may be the trickiest step in the installation process.