Googling the obvious produces:
tinyurl.com/mksskx
An Australian company selling what could best be described as fitted carpets for dashboards.
Mostly aimed at preventing the original plastic cracking through heat, such an item would also prevent reflections.
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Unfortunately this doesn't help. The new Jazz is particularly prone to reflections from the top of the dash and especially from the top of the instrument binnacle and can be a pain on bright days, especially for taller drivers. Polariod sunglasses don't help significantly.
The reflections are probably the poorest part of the design of this car, though the over-sensitive brakes are close, which is a pity as the car is much better on the road than the old model, with more comfortable seats and much improved ride and road-holding.
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I was recently going through a road with trees and bushes each side with a bright sun shining through. When the sun was reflecting on my dash as I was entering the shadows it wasn't good,(blinding in fact) so we are going to source a non reflective material to lay on the dash.
Other wise a great little car, struggles a bit on steep hills but it is a small engine and with 50+ mpg I can forgive a lot. Strange as it seems, when I'm in it it seems a lot bigger than when I look at it from out side. Also I feel I am going a hell of a lot faster than the speedo indicates. Must be to do with a short bonnet making me feel closer to the roar surface in front.
No tickets yet so the speedo must be right.
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Polarized sunglasses will solve this.
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There are many car, both new and old where ill chosen materials and colours for fascias and dashboards are just not considered at the design stage and, frankly, some designers need sacking.
My new Golf MK6, excellent car though it is, suffers from some stupid design faults now. They've surrounded most orifices and knobs with bling trim and, as a result, the side air vents are visible in the side windows during the hours of daylight and so when you look in the door mirrors you can see the air vents and their bright metallic surrounds - daft or what?
However, some prestige cars with leather and cloth interiors seem to have very pale colours on the upper surfaces of their fascias and this is ridiculous as you have that reflection in your windscreen all the time and not the 'blackness' that would be preferable.
To my mind, at lot of car interior design is steadily on a downhill slope and not really contributing to driver comfort and safety.
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