It's another hot
summer day, and you're glad to be in your air-conditioned
office or at the mall. Meanwhile, your car is in the parking
lot, baking in the sun. The temperature within your vehicle
soars to over 150 degrees in the noontime sun. And when
you get in, you feel it---like you just crawled into an
oven. It's bad enough that the sun's UV rays are damaging
your seats and dashboard, but your interior will radiate
that heat for awhile.
Comparison of Products
for Shading Vehicle Interiors
Features
Product Types
Price
($ approx)
Covers
All Windows
Some
UV
Interior Protection
Complete
UV
Interior Protection
Provides
Solar
Heat Protection
Easy
to
Install
and Remove
Small
Storage Package
Conceals
Items
within Vehicle
Years
of Use (est)
Full
Car Cover
Custom Fitted
$250
- $500
4
- 5
Full
Car Cover
Non-Custom
$80
- $240
4
- 5
Full
Car Cover
Inexpensive
$20
- $70
1
- 3
Dashboard
Cover
Velour
$40
- $60
5
- 7
Windshield
Sun Shade
Custom Fitted
$40
- $60
2
- 3
Windshield Sun Shade
Fabric
$9
- $15
2
- 3
Windshield
Sun Shade
Cardboard
$5
- $7
2
- 3
California PopTop™
$59.95
2 - 3
Source of information:
Car Cover World, California Car Covers, CoverSeach.com, AJ-USA, Auto Anything, Cover Craft, California Covers and other companies found through searches on Yahoo and Google for car covers and sun shades.