When I lived in Brisbane and bought a Toyota land cruiser in 1981 that was
put together in the NT, it had dark tinting. I don’t know about keeping
cooler (probably helped). As for the observation of wildlife from the
vehicle I think that a fairly unimportant issue. Hard to imagine why that
would make a difference in the daytime. What really impacted was that it
made it quite dangerous driving at night. You cannot see anything on the
side and because it is so reflective, if you do see lights from cars on
cross roads, it is hard to know if they are on the right or left……. I
removed it (when it eventually became loose enough to peel off).
For what it is worth, that car had a full, permanent (and very heavy) steel
and timber roof rack, with large storage boxes that would double as seats
and side bars all around the car, the roof rack was not attached to the roof
but held up by the 4 side bars and with a permanent ladder attached. Thus
the car was permanently shaded from above by the canvas top and the wooden
floor of the roof rack, so comments as to temperature control exist in that
context. At various times I would pull back the canvas canopy and could sit
or stand on the roof rack (with a telescope if needed) for a really good
high view (about 3 to 4 metres), or if the weather was nice enough and I did
not feel like setting up a tent, I could set up my bed to sleep on the roof
rack.
Philip
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