What if...

[Ovencleaner]

Someone coated the entire front of their car with veil? I was not thinking about doing it, but wouldn't that eliminate bounceoff from the rest of the car? Or what if cars were completely painted with non IR reflective paint?

That would eliminate the punchthrough from the rest of cars reflections right? I know it would be a desperate measure, but I think it would be really cool! Kinda like a stealth fighter but a stealth car... It might be ugly though.... but definitley cool if it worked.

[Veil Guy]

Ovencleaner,

I'd by lyin' if I said, the thought had never crossed my mind. :wink:

Stay tuned...

Veil Guy 8)

[JDS]

Coating an entire section of a car with Veil would be terribly ugly.

I have a very "stealth" car myself. I have black paint, an aftermarket black mesh grille to replace the stock unit with its huge chrome badge, and my rubstrip moldings with their chrome inserts have all been replaced with an earlier style that does not included the chrome molding. The headlights, of course, are coated with Veil. But my car isn't nearly perfect...primarily, the paint is still somewhat reflective, as it's Black Magic Pearl, a glossy, metallic pearl color. Furthermore, my headlights are reflector-type (rather than projector or even sealed-beam) with very large single reflectors (rather than smaller separate high-beam and low-beam reflectors), and even with Veil cutting IR reflection by as much as 99%, they could be better if they were projector units with everything but the optics painted black. In fact, if I had pop-up headlights, the car would probably be even stealthier...until I had to turn on the lights, of course.

The most significant change to achieve a LIDAR-stealth car would be to go to a true flat black paint. I'm talking about a specialized urethane-coat paint that doesn't just lack any sort of metallic element, it even lacks a clearcoat. It's so flat, it shouldn't shine in any way, under any light. My [black] cat reflects more light than an entire car painted in a black shade of this stuff.

EDIT: Here we go, found some photos. Username "rat4life" on www.vwvortex.com if you want to look for more:

[Ovencleaner]

Wow! its like a... stealth car! I wonder what the effect on LIDAR would be... It definitely looks like he has veil on his headlights.

[JDS]

Trust me when I tell you that it DOES NOT have Veil on its headlights.

And that purplish blue isn't ideal, although it's certainly good. That paint in black would effectively make the car a black hole :shock:

Oh and it would certainly need to lose the front plate or at least get a LaserShield cover. Hanging that sucker out there is more than enough, no matter how stealth the rest of your car is.

[Ovencleaner]

Trust me when I tell you that it DOES NOT have Veil on its headlights.

And that purplish blue isn't ideal, although it's certainly good. That paint in black would effectively make the car a black hole :shock:

Oh and it would certainly need to lose the front plate or at least get a LaserShield cover. Hanging that sucker out there is more than enough, no matter how stealth the rest of your car is.

Hmmm... if laser jamming ever became illegal looks like we still got options :]

[Rottman]

Hmmm... if laser jamming ever became illegal looks like we still got options :]

Why they make toggle switches man.....they are illegal in many states....SO IS SPEEDING!! :roll:

[Ovencleaner]

Hmmm... if laser jamming ever became illegal looks like we still got options :]

Why they make toggle switches man.....they are illegal in many states....SO IS SPEEDING!! :roll:

Haha very true. And I guess with all the PL3's out there even if it was illegal in texas I could get away with it

[Rottman]

Hmmm... if laser jamming ever became illegal looks like we still got options :]

Why they make toggle switches man.....they are illegal in many states....SO IS SPEEDING!! :roll:

Haha very true. And I guess with all the PL3's out there even if it was illegal in texas I could get away with it

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