Dashmat: what you got?

Anyone have one? What brand? Likes/dislikes?

 

I had one and every time i took off from a stop light it would fall on to the floor. I could have stopped it with velcro being placed on the dash but I dont like doing that.

 

https://egrips.com/

Stuff grips like crazy.

 

Dash mats r ugly af

 

I didn't think of that stuff. I now like the look better without the dashmat. Plus, my entire windshield is tinted so no more worries on fading dash.

 

I don't think people are necessarily buying them for looks, but I could be wrong. I think the idea is to keep the sun from ruining the dash.

 

Yup, ugly AF.

But they have good acoustical properties.

 

You tell me, what's uglier, a dash mat, or this?

 

Porque no los dos..

 

I dig it

I'm thinking the suede would look the least repulsive:

https://www.carid.com/dashmat/suedemat-custom-dashboard-cover.html

 

Must be a hot climate thing. I've never seen such damage up here. I've never even seen a dashmat in the wild...

 

Story time. It's a few years ago. I've been driving me Tahoe for several years. All is good. I decide I want to buy a used truck. I end up with an 05 Nissan Frontier "King Cab." One of the first mods is upgrading the shit stock headunit with some Kenwood goodness. As I'm taking the dash apart, it becomes apparent that the Nissan plastics will scratch just by looking at it. When I pull the dash trim from around the stereo off, it it's brittle and breaks into no less than half a dozen pieces. Some large and some tiny fragments. My brother is helping me and we start laughing our asses off. I'm pissed but not enough to stop laughing. I run in the house to grab my new headunit while my brother stays in the truck. While I was gone, he moved the larger of the trim pieces out of the way. He places them in the driver seat. When I came back outside, I didn't even think twice and moved with a quickness to sit back in the truck. I hear the loudest crunch I've ever heard as my full 250 pounds lands on the dash trim sitting on the seat that I was not expecting. My brother nearly has a stroke he is laughing so fucking hard that it pisses me off even more and makes me laugh even harder as I come to the realization that I have just destroyed the precious remaining dash bezel. We had to quit working on it as we couldn't breathe from laughing so much. The Nissan interior plastics are crap and will become brittle and break if you just look at them funny. It sucked. Lol.

 

Don’t buy from dashmats of az or az dashmats, whichever one it is!

 

Story time for this comment?

 

I don't have pictures right now but I (mind you, i live in the south) got a custom made dash mat in Realtree AP camo from coverking. Fits perfectly and imo looks good, have matching steering wheel cover and saving up for seat covers.

 

Haha well........ it didn’t come close to fitting on multiple planes, terrible customer service when I went to return it, ended up making a return claim because they never sent back a proper fitting mat. All emails were sent, money was returned 6 months after the initial purchase. I’m still matless

 

I've been contemplating this. I just installed a 12volt.solutions remote start. In the package comes this little mat you can place on your dash to hold parts, etc during install. It's like this this microfiber-ish thing and I was just thinking if I can get a dashmat made of that, I'd do it.

 

I'd like to see it if you get time.

 

Heres some of it, forgot i took a picture after i installed it just to show a few people. It says to let the sun bake it for a few hours and it'll lay down pretty good, looks sharp to me.

 

Are you using velcro to attach or something else?

 

It comes with adhesive velcro that mounts to several points on the dash mat, had to wipe down a few spots with alcohol to get it to adhere since it was plastered in armor-all (aggravating) but it's mounted good and the velcro is strong.

 

The Velcro won’t last, or get good 3mcro. One our 4runner it turned to goo in less than a summers time.

 

I remember that I tried holding up some MLV inside the door panel with "industrial strength" velcro and it did not last even a few days during July. This is something to consider...hmmm...Though the MLV was hanging vertically.
I ended up using gorilla tape and until I used a very judicious amount, the side of the truck that gets afternoon sun still had the MLV falling off after a few days.

 

For the most part it isn’t a problem, not being secured, but off roading......I wanted to rip it up and throw it out the window!!! Kept jumping off at the most inopportune time on the trails.
Maybe some irridium magnets in the dash somehow?

 

Liquid DashMat

 

This can be found with almost every outdoor-living Ford, GM and Nissan product in Southeastern USA if it wasn't regularly treated with a UV protectant. Subject sample shown is a late 90s GM truck platform like Tahoe, Silverado, Sierra, Yukon, and even the Suburbans had the issue. F150 had this and the dash LVP paint tended to rub off on the beige interiors.

A lot of guys with those vehicles will hunt for a $300-400 replacement dash from up north, drive up to get it, and try their damnedest not to crack it when driving it back, then installing the replacement. And let me tell you, I've seen threads on other forums where guys replaced the dash. Talk about nightmares...

 

Fascinating. I learn something new everyday.