Why Custom Dash Covers?
Good Dash Covers and Rear Deck Covers help you enjoy your vehicle for years to come by:
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Protecting your dashboard against spills
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Preventing the cracking and fading caused by heat, cold, and UV radiation
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Reducing the dangerous glare that some interiors cast on windshields
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Concealing existing damage (and keeping it from getting worse)
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Enhancing the otherwise sterile, plastic appearance of the interior
Protection from Weather and Elements
UV damage. Sunlight is a powerful force for good, but it is harsh on your vehicle’s interior. The sun’s intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation pummels your car from sunrise to sunset, causing bright colors to fade to dull beiges and pale grays. UV also penetrates the plastic, causing cracks in your vehicle’s interior. You wouldn’t leave your skin unprotected for a day at the beach. Does your car deserve any less protection?
Heat and Cold. You already know what an oven your vehicle can be after a day in the sun. An enclosed space surrounded by glass, your vehicle’s interior can literally bake all day, every day. By the time you get in and get a quick shot of air conditioning, the damage to your vehicle’s interior is already done. The vehicle interior suffers fiercely high temperatures all day long. In the short run, a sweltering sauna of a car is uncomfortable, even painful. Over time, this heat will cause ugly warps and fissures to form on your dash and rear deck.
And that’s just the half of it. The cold can be just as bad as the heat. The cycles of heat and cold cause the plastic inyour dash and rear deck to expand and shrink, aiding the development of cracks.
Think you can live with those cracks? Think again. Cracks in your interior aren’t just unsightly -- they cost you money. Once cracks develop, it’s a Catch-22: You can sink thousands of dollars into replacing the dashboard. Or you can leave it as is, knocking thousands of dollars off of your vehicle’s resale value. Not much of a choice, is it?
Dust and Dirt. They’re blowin’ in the wind. And no matter how clean you are, dust and dirt still find their way into your vehicle. You watch them collect and periodically wipe them off. But, like unwanted guests, they come right back again. You can get some protection from liquid protectant sprays. But unless you bathe your interior in them regularly, nothing beats a good solid barrier. And there’s no substitute for a good Dash Cover and Rear Deck Cover.
Here is how a good Dash Cover and Rear Deck Cover help you stop these elements from damaging your vehicle’s interior:
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Forms a strong barrier between your vehicle’s interior and sunlight.
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Absorbs and spreads out intense UV radiation, reducing its power to damage.
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Reduces the temperature extremes inside your vehicle -- dispersing heat in the summer and holding in warmth during the winter.
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Absorbs dust and dirt so that cleaning is as easy as running a vacuum over the Dash Cover.
Safety
Yes! There are actually safety concerns involved in covering your vehicle’s interior. Both have to do with your ability to see out of your windshield:
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Hazardous glare. The color of your dashboard or rear deck may reflect onto your windshield, distracting your eyes from what you need to see -- ahead or behind. With some dashboards and rear decks, this color is reached by fading. With others, sadly, it’s the result of unfortunate design.
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Windshield haze. Believe it or not, your dashboard produces a kind of gas when it is exposed to direct sunlight, and that gas ends up as a subtle, barely visible haze on your windshield. This windshield haze refracts sunlight, reducing the visibility through your windshield. Because the haze is on the inside, the windshield wipers can’t reach it. And the haze is so subtle that it is often hard to see it until you’re in a dangerous situation and notice that you can’t see.
Good Dash Covers and Rear Deck Covers stop windshield glare and windshield haze in their tracks:
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Mutes colors that might show up on your windshield
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Blocks UV radiation before it can create dangerous windshield haze
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Is made of materials that do not emit haze when exposed to sunlight
Attractive Appearance -- and Affordable, Too!
Strange, but true. The interior look of your car matters. That’s because you (and your passengers) don’t just sit around looking at your car from the outside. You experience your car most when you’re on the inside. If the interior color has faded into an unappealing shade, or the dashboard is cracking under sweltering heat, or if there’s just generally too much plastic around -- you notice.
Dress up your interior! The plastic look of most vehicle interiors can be stunning in its drabness. A Dash Cover can bring your interior back to life and won’t cost you a fortune.
Personalize. You can really put your mark on your vehicle’s interior. You can have a name or a favorite logo embroidered on your Dash Cover so you will feel right at home inside your vehicle.
Choose the typeface for your personalized Custom Dash Cover or Custom Rear Deck Cover. Coverking offers block text or script.
Conceal existent damage . If your interior is already cracking and fading, all is not lost! A good Dash Cover can help keep the damage out of sight. It can also help prevent further damage, so that coffee spill doesn’t have to be a permanent reminder stained on your dashboard.
Change interior color scheme. The original interior may have looked good for a while. But change is inevitable. So why not have it your way? Change the color to something that suits you better. You’ll be surprised how it changes things! (Be sure to check out Coverking’s Custom Seat Covers, too, and create a matching interior that will look like you paid for reupholstery!)
For the driver who has to make a statement, add neon-lit edging to your dashboard cover.
