Dash Cover
07-25-2005, 11:48 AM
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Me too, I'd like to get one to cover my carputer screen when I park. Right now I just throw a beach towel over the whole dash, I wonder what people think when they see that?
07-25-2005, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by flipstream
hmm... i'd be curious to see how it would look... 
If done right, and with some really cool material, it would look OK, but I don't think I would buy one. A friend on mine had one in his Audi, and it kept sliding around a bit. He was always pushing it back towards the front window. So, you would need some velcro maybe to hold it in place?
07-25-2005, 06:10 PM
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I may be mistaken but aren't today's interior plastics infused with chemicals that prevent the harsh cracking that made Armor All so famous? When I asked the dealer the best thing to use on the Mazda dash they told me that today's dashes don't crack like they used to...simply wipe it down down...anyone else heard this?
07-25-2005, 06:30 PM
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No plastics are impervious to UV .... everything exposed to the sun breaks down eventually. Putting a barrier between the sun and the plastic is the only way to protect it.
07-25-2005, 07:44 PM
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Well sure, over time plutonium breaks down too :p , this (in more depth) is what I was referring to...found this in an article from the Department of Polymer Science at USM.
"The dashboard of a car has three layers.* You don't see the bottom layer which is a glass-fiber reinforced thermoplastic.* On top of that is a layer of polyurethane foam.* The top layer on old cars is, of course, PVC.* More recently, dashboard coverings have been made of PVC blended with something called ABS.* ABS is an acronym for a block copolymer made of acrylonitrile, butadiene, and styrene.* PVC blended with ABS effectively does the same thing as PVC with added plasticizer, but in this case, the ABS doesn't evaporate so the dashboard lasts a lot longer."
Just food for thought...
"The dashboard of a car has three layers.* You don't see the bottom layer which is a glass-fiber reinforced thermoplastic.* On top of that is a layer of polyurethane foam.* The top layer on old cars is, of course, PVC.* More recently, dashboard coverings have been made of PVC blended with something called ABS.* ABS is an acronym for a block copolymer made of acrylonitrile, butadiene, and styrene.* PVC blended with ABS effectively does the same thing as PVC with added plasticizer, but in this case, the ABS doesn't evaporate so the dashboard lasts a lot longer."
Just food for thought...
08-04-2005, 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by derwankel
No plastics are impervious to UV .... everything exposed to the sun breaks down eventually. Putting a barrier between the sun and the plastic is the only way to protect it.
you dont know if you have not tried it.
this is a link, this is where i got it first http://www.autogeek.net/303aerprot.html
have found it for less elseware, but not much. i buy it buy the gallon.
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09-18-2005, 12:18 AM
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A friend recently told me that someone he knows sells carbon black to the car companies for the dash to make them dark and nonreflective. They pay a good price to put the stuff in there and the first thing people do is to go out and throw Armor-all on it and destroy that non-reflective property.
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