Driving with glaring sunlight

happysellerbuyer

Hi All,
Have bought a used Peugeot 2008. While driving today in the sun with sunlight direct on eyes, it was pretty difficult to see in front. Is this common. What can i do to improve visibility. 
Thanks

AdrianC

Clean the windscreen, inside and out.
Wear sunglasses.
Use the sunvisor.

Car_54

Sunglasses, ideally polarised.

And Highway Code Rule 93 "Slow down, and if necessary stop, if you are dazzled by bright sunlight."

happysellerbuyer

Thanks. Yes I stopped on the side. Will get these.

facade

As above, clean the windscreen and wear sunglasses.

I wear glasses so I keep prescription polaroid sunglasses in the glovebox for this time of year, clip-ons are actually better, as you can flip them up when the sun goes in or you go along a shady lane, but they are a bit of a pain to fit, and decent ones are expensive.

Polaroids cut out a lot of the glare from the low sun reflecting off a wet road, but they mess up the view of the SatNav- as the cheap LCD screens use polarised light to work.

I do have reactolite lenses in my glasses, but they don't work inside a car, because the windscreen blocks most of the UV light that triggers them.

happysellerbuyer

Had the sun visor on. Seat was upright has well. Will clean the windscreen.

Lorian

inside of windscreen too.

Spinybif

If you want photochromic lenses to work in a car you need Transitions Xtractive  which do work behind a windscreen - unlike ordinary Transitions they rely on blue light not UV.

facade

Spinybif said:

If you want photochromic lenses to work in a car you need Transitions Xtractive  which do work behind a windscreen - unlike ordinary Transitions they rely on blue light not UV.

Thanks for that, I'd not been upsold them, I will definitely go for them with my next glasses.

They ought to filter out a lot of the blue from HID & LED headlights too.

Scrapit

happysellerbuyer said:

Hi All,
Have bought a used Peugeot 2008. While driving today in the sun with sunlight direct on eyes, it was pretty difficult to see in front. Is this common. What can i do to improve visibility. 
Thanks

Are you new to driving?

JustAnotherSaver

I've wondered about this so to move on a bit from the question... 

I'm anal with clean glass so yes mine is clean, minimal dusting if any. 
Where I live I have to climb a bit of a hill to get out on the main road and the angle of the sun in the morning can be terrible. 
So with sun visor down, sunglasses on, windscreen clear it can still be very difficult to see. I drive gingerly, hoping anything coming the other way will move out and beep me if I'm about to hit them. Not ideal. 

Short of stopping and getting out every wheel turn to have a look, what's a better way of dealing with this? Are there special types of glasses you can get that cut the glare down totally?