About Dash Designs
Dash Designs is a Tempe, Arizona maker of custom-fit vehicle interior protection. The company describes more than 40 years of experience and says its patterns are designed, cut, sewn, and quality-checked at its own Tempe facility, and it markets its products as Made in USA. Arizona is about as demanding a place as any to design sun protection, and the brand's catalog reflects it: custom seat covers, custom dash covers, custom floor mats, and custom sunshades, plus accessories such as steering wheel covers and seat toppers.
Its sunshade line includes the Original Retractable Shade, the Ultimate Reflector, and the Custom Auto Shade. On RevRated, the 25-inch Retractable Windshield Sunshade is a top pick in our car sun shade review: a roller housing that mounts once in the vehicle, with a pleated fabric panel that pulls across the windshield one-handed, so the shade actually gets used at every stop. Dash Designs reports a 4.8 out of 5 average across more than 20,000 verified reviews on its own store.
Brand website: dashdesigns.com
What Dash Designs makes
Dash Designs's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines that earned places in our roundups are marked with a star:
Retractable & custom sunshades
the Original Retractable Shade, Ultimate Reflector, and Custom Auto Shade windshield shades, featured on RevRated (featured on RevRated)
Custom seat covers
vehicle-specific seat cover lines, plus seat topper cushions and sheepskin covers
Custom dash covers
vehicle-specific dash covers, including an RV dash cover line
Floor mats
HexoMat, EnduraMat, Protect-A-Mat, and FlexoMat lines
Accessories
steering wheel covers, cargo mats, and seat gappers sold as Dashcessories
Why we recognized Dash Designs
The RevRated Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our category roundups. Dash Designs earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: checked against the specs, fitment data and verified buyer reviews, and judged on merit.
Dash Designs products we rated highly
Dash Designs 25" Retractable Windshield Sunshade
The roller housing stays installed in the vehicle and the accordion panel pulls across the windshield in one motion, which removes the deploy, fold, and store cycle that makes many drivers abandon flat shades. In our review, one-handed open and close was faster than any twist-fold or two-piece shade once mounted, and the 25-inch pleated panel suits the raked windshields on sedans, SUVs, and pickups with 99 percent UV block across the full width. It holds a 4.4-star rating across hundreds of Amazon reviews.
Read our Car Sun Shades guide →What earned Dash Designs the recognition
- Its retractable sunshade is the permanently mounted design in our car sun shade review, built for drivers who want the shade up at every stop without folding anything.
- One-handed deployment from a roller housing that stays in the vehicle, which in our testing was quicker than any twist-fold or two-piece shade once mounted.
- A 25-inch pleated fabric panel with 99 percent UV block that fits the windshields on sedans, SUVs, and pickups.
- A 4.4-star rating across hundreds of Amazon reviews on the featured shade, and a reported 4.8 out of 5 across more than 20,000 verified reviews on the company's own store.
- Designed, cut, sewn, and quality-checked at the company's own Tempe, Arizona facility, with more than 40 years of experience in custom vehicle interior protection.