V90 Crome dashboard sun glint
 

I I have just bought a new 21 plate V90 very happy with it apart from when the sun hits the chrome on the dashboard it either blinds me or the passenger. Has anyone else come across this problem and is there anything that can be done to fix this. Thanks Jamie

Yup annoys me too. Only had the car 5 days though so haven’t thought of a solution.

My son has replaced some of the trim in his Mazda with some aftermarket metallic red trim, because he thinks the red in a black interior looks better, with a quick search I can't see any such product for a V90, the only alternative I can think of is covering individual pieces with some sort of film like the pretend carbon fibre but that would be a fiddly time consuming job.

It is the only thing that really irritates me in the new car. I am actually very surprised at Volvo for allowing that to be designed into their cars.

Does make you wonder with all of the time and money they put into development how it was that no one went for a drive in the sunshine and said 'that's flippin annoying'.

I think I may email Volvo about it, just so they're aware of potential issues. And to see if they have come across other people reporting the problem and if they have any ideas for a solution..

Happened to me in every car I ever had (or just drove) that had any chrome/stainless/otherwise shiny details on the dashboard. Disaster, really, and not much you can do about it except taping over it like DAVENP suggested.

One car I took to a shop that installs those dark films on windows, but they redirected me to a shop that does wrapping (that thing when all/part of the exterior gets foil-wrapped). Well they had some see-through-but-hardly black/smoke foil that they use for covering lights and similar, so they gave it a try on metal (stainless) parts in the cockpit. Sure enough that looked good, looked excellent, but the sun blinding was still present. To lesse extent, it was significantly less bright, but was still there.

But boy oh boy did it look good! All that shiny stainless became something like black chrome, like dark mirror of sort.

Yet, still reflecting sun....

Thanks
 

Thanks for you reply’s will keep looking and Email Volvo will post an update once I received something.

Reply from Volvo UK
 

Thank you for getting in touch.

This is something I have not come across before. However, please be assured that this has now been passed onto the product team and your feedback is very much appreciated. However, if you are concerned about this moving forwards, I recommend taking the car into a Volvo retailer who can perform an inspection.

Seems a bit of a cop out I think.

Don't be daft, it looks sooooo gooooood..:) :)

Its another crass design decision of this modern world of image over function.
In the automotive world ( to me) the list of such cases is almost endless.
But I doubt that I am no longer the target market for new Volvo.

Cheers
Bob