DeafSoundGuy
Well-known member
I received my new Dashmat yesterday for the i3. Okay, good news and bad news. I ordered the "suede" look in "smoke". It looks good, to me anyhow. However I don't think someone did their homework though. The mat goes all around the dash area including the bottom valley in the middle below the Nav screen and over the Glove Box. And so there is the problem - if you have something that is fastened down over the GB, then how do you open the GB? Fail! So, if you bought an upper model with that nice wood, then you'd be covering it up too! Fail! I have a base model so covering up Plastic is cool with me. However of course I want to open my %#*^ GB! So what you can do if you have one of these on order and Dashmat doesn't fix the problem is you can tuck the GB flap all the way into the GB and close it. That doesn't look too bad. If you didn't fasten down the GB flap then it will just go up and you'd have to place it back. The left side finger doesn't fit the little left side valley too well but doesn't bother me.
You also get a separate piece to cover the sweeping piece that comes out from the right side. It is cut in 2 places to allow the airbag to come out. I personally don't care for it, but if my car was going to see hot sun everyday I'd probably use it.
As far as glare reduction I don't know yet because the sun has taken a nose dive here this week. If I can get into a position to get the sun back and the glare issue, I'll try to get pictures of both.
I'm going to try to post some pictures here. Never done it so it could be a fail! moment. The pictures will be stock dash, then Dashmat left side, Dashmat right side, Dashmat GB fail, GB flap tucked and lid closed, Left side finger, and sweeping piece cover piece. If I fail at posting links forgive me!
http://postimage.org/image/u26npowjf/
http://postimage.org/image/47wuzwwjf/
http://postimage.org/image/o3xft72yj/
http://postimage.org/image/sec3os81n/
http://postimage.org/image/45czd2svv/
http://postimage.org/image/r1uemwam3/
http://postimage.org/image/y3sc93e7v/
You also get a separate piece to cover the sweeping piece that comes out from the right side. It is cut in 2 places to allow the airbag to come out. I personally don't care for it, but if my car was going to see hot sun everyday I'd probably use it.
As far as glare reduction I don't know yet because the sun has taken a nose dive here this week. If I can get into a position to get the sun back and the glare issue, I'll try to get pictures of both.
I'm going to try to post some pictures here. Never done it so it could be a fail! moment. The pictures will be stock dash, then Dashmat left side, Dashmat right side, Dashmat GB fail, GB flap tucked and lid closed, Left side finger, and sweeping piece cover piece. If I fail at posting links forgive me!
http://postimage.org/image/u26npowjf/
http://postimage.org/image/47wuzwwjf/
http://postimage.org/image/o3xft72yj/
http://postimage.org/image/sec3os81n/
http://postimage.org/image/45czd2svv/
http://postimage.org/image/r1uemwam3/
http://postimage.org/image/y3sc93e7v/