What can a dash cover do for my vehicle?
It may seem like just a bit of decoration, but a custom dash cover or dash mat does much more for your vehicle. When you outfit your vehicle with a dash cover, you can:
- Protect your dash from dust, dirt, sunlight and heat that cause damage
- Lower the interior temperature of your vehicle
- Dress-up the looks of cracked, faded or bland dash surfaces
- Add a well-needed shot of color to your interior
- Improve the feel of your dash
- Discover smooth, form-fitted looks specialized for your vehicle
- Install your new cover quick and easy
Dust, dirt, sunlight and heat. All of these are enemies of your dash, and all of them are thwarted by the powers of a dash cover. Here's how:
Dust and dirt that regularly collect on your dash surface are a pain to stay on top of. There are dash cleaners and shiners, but use the wrong product and you'll end up with a crack or two. Heat and oils combine to force large rifts in the surface. Instead of that risk, a dash cover simply swallows the dust, which is infinitely less visible when resting between carpet fibers. And, the dashboard cover can be vacuumed clean at the same time you do the rest of your interior.
Sunlight may seem harmless, but it's constantly working against your dash. After just a few years of prolonged exposure to the Ultra Violet rays blasting through your windshield, your dash will fade enough to clash with the rest of your interior. However, a dash cover creates a barrier that keeps interior color looking fresh.
Heat sometimes causes freeways to buckle. Think your dash stands a chance without some help? Forget about it! Soaring temperatures eventually cause the air molecules in your dash to expand, rupturing the surface into a sad Grand Canyon diorama. Fear not—a dash cover disperses the heat across its carpeted surface, shielding the dashboard and keeping things cool.
If you ever navigate the side-roads of Surprise, Arizona and put your hand on the dash, you're in for another kind of surprise. It's called a second-degree burn. Blisters, too.
Your dash is a conduit for heat–like an ant beneath the magnifying glass of your windshield. That extreme heat radiates throughout your vehicle, making steering wheels singe, belt buckles burn and seat covers into sweat stations. But, with the right soft dash cover, you can cool things off a bit–both the inside of your cab and your palm!
A carpeted dash cover is a much less reflective surface with many layers of material. The incoming heat rays from your windshield dissipate throughout the cover, radiating less heat throughout your car than one semi-smooth surface would. Your vehicle is once again suitable for human use.