Hopefully an end to windscreen reflections!

[lexi]

    Those dash mats make the car look like a home built campavan!

[TopDown]

Don't buy one then 

Just ordered one for the equivalent of £11.50 posted.

Not a lot to give it a try.

[pb82gh3]

lexi - agree to a certain extent if you really worry about what others think, but for me that's easily outweighed by the lack of reflections. I've now cut my cover to avoid compromising the passenger side airbag deployment and am happy to have bought and fitted one of these.

[richardfrost]

Wouldn't a cheap pair of Polaroids do exactly the same job, with the bonus of them making you look cool? 

[culzean]

Wouldn't a cheap pair of Polaroids do exactly the same job, with the bonus of them making you look cool? 

I used to use polaroids,  but the annoying pattern on the older 'toughened glass' windscreens was annoying, now since the introduction of digital displays into cars I find the polaroids can make them too dark or rainbow pattern on the screens - the dash cover seems a good solution as it also keeps the plastic underneath cooler and maybe helps keep the interior of car cooler as well,  a lot of people used furry dash covers in Aussie,  trouble is most of them were flourescent colours LOL

[richardfrost]

Maybe we could get Club Jazz branded dash covers. Driving my son's Jazz I really notice it, but even my H-RV is prone to it. What is it with Honda and reflective dashboards?

[guest1372]

Each to their own when personalising their dashboard, no airbags for passenger #2!


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[guest5079]

My dash mat arrived last Friday, cost less than £13  At the moment not fixed just sitting on some anti slip matting, till it settles down. Not much sun but this am we got some NO reflection at all.
I have sound proofed the whole of the rear of the car up to the rear of the front seats but did not do the front as it did seem adequate.
Well, it might make it look like a home made camper BUT what a difference to road noise. Yes, my Wife made the comment the car seems more settled? What does she mean, I think she meant more comfortable. Those lovely reminder strips across the road, muffled, pot ho;es muffled road surface noise muffled. Unfortunately the hiss from the air con can now be heard. ( you can't please everything)
All I can say is thank you Pumpkin it's the best £13 I have spent in a long time.
As to glasses, my Wife has just been removed of a touch under £1000 for special glasses as she is light and uv sensitive, it wasn't them that did the job just Ali Express's £13 dash mat.

[madasafish]

I use varifocals with an anti glare film and light sensitive tints.  Never had a problem...

[jazzster]

lexi - agree to a certain extent if you really worry about what others think, but for me that's easily outweighed by the lack of reflections. I've now cut my cover to avoid compromising the passenger side airbag deployment and am happy to have bought and fitted one of these.

have you a photo of how it it looks with the cut out

[guest5079]

I agree about tints and varifocals but never the less the mat has removed even the reflection that got through. My Wife has two auto immune illnesses, one being LUPUS a nasty little devil that amongst other things mimics many illnesses. Lupus sufferers have a problem with such common items as fluorescent lights and energy saving bulbs. UV light is actually quite dangerous to Lupus sufferers, for example before the medics actually worked out what it was, She was gardening wearing a patterned jumper. The UV light had burned the pattern into her skin. One pair of glasses has to have wings so that sunlight can't come around the sides. So what helps ordinary people is no help to her. For example, Eye specialist told her to never wear varifocals when driving. So driving glasses are single lens distance with maximum tint and wrap around sides which are made not to impair her sideways vision. Walking glasses are special varifocals where  the variation is different to normal.
Of course the NHS doesn't recognise LUPUS enough to help with costs such as her glasses.

[John Ratsey]

I took the expensive route of trading in the Jazz for an HR-V. It's probably the different slope on the windscreen which fixed the problem for me. My eyeball position in the Jazz seemed to be at the optimum worst (Mk 3 Jazz better than Mk 2 in terms of the glare problem but the HR-V much better still). Perhaps if I had found this mat a few years ago then I would still be driving my hybrid Jazz!

[hemming]

I've just fitted the dash mat which certainly does the trick. As yet I have not used the Velcro pads to stick it down but it has not budged at all. I intend to see how it goes rather than cut the hole for the airbag for the time being. I am fairly sure that if ever deployed the airbag will have enough power to lift the dash mat....

[harry22673]

I would order one of these mats right away if it was just for above the cluster
These rest of the mat is where I have bits sat

[pb82gh3]

Here are my pics of a cut down dash cover. As a driver I'm never bothered by reflections from the passenger side, so made a straight cut off of about 40% of the cover. I considered trying to bind the cut edge, although it didn't look like it would fray, but decided this was beyond my sewing skills, so just ran an invisible trace of superglue down the edge where the "pile" joins the backing.

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