First full day with the new XLT. Anybody else notice a reflection of the dashboard off the windshield when the sun hits the windhield ? Any cure for this?

 

Stay away from Armor-All type products to reduce shine. If you want to get rid of it completely, you can do what my grandparents do for their Buick's which is throw molded carpet atop the dash. Looks like hell though.

 

Tint the front window. Im doing a light tint (35%) on the front windshield and then 20% on driver and pasenger's to match the back two windows.

 

I dig the new forum look! But ya I saw a new f 150 like this..nearly puked a little

 

Be careful tinting the front window. In Louisiana, they made any tint on the front windshield illegal this year.

 

I tinted the front windows on my 02 XLT to match the factory tint on the rear windows; thought it was a great idea at the time. It gave the truck a nice uniform look. Then I drove it at night, and realized I could hardly see out the side windows. Among other things, backing into my driveway was difficult and I would have to roll down the driver's side window to see where I was going. This wasn't too bad in the spring, summer and fall, but got cold during the winter months.

 

i'm not tinting anything. I once owned a Corvette that I bought and it had tinted windows. Pretty cool until I got stopped by the state police and was issued a warning to get the too dark tint off the vehicle.

 

Yes, I have this too and after much thought and experimental experimentation I came up with this: I bought a black (any preferably black non-reflective material will do) small towel at Walmart, trimmed it (with leaving little tabs that hang down over near the instrument cluster, you will know what I mean when you do it) and cut it to size, about 12" x 12" or a little bigger, and layed it over the dashboard cowl so it then drapes down just to the inside vent below the windshield. Works perfectly, no more glare and the towel is really not noticeable. My final enhancements are to small tape/velcro it to under dash cowl where no one can see the tape, to keep it in place.

Yes, I did first de-gloss the dash area as much as possible but the glare was still there. I also cursed to mineself the well-meaning but "thoughtless" detail guy at Franklin Ford for shining the dash up before delivery.

Yes, I know, pics are needed. I will take some soon.

 

I have never had any glare problems in my 09.

 

I do not see how our police in jacksonville could issue any warning for heavy tint as they all got their windows tinted so dark you can not see them eating their donuts!

As far as the dash reflections, towel off the armor all. BEST to get some polarized sunglasses as it will remove the reflection near 100%