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Wagan EL2324 Snowbrella / Sunbrella Front Windshield Cover | 
| Brand: Wagan
Category: Automotive Parts And Accessories
List Price: $17.95
Buy New: $14.99
You Save: $2.96 (16%)
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 110
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.8 x 1
MPN: EL2324
Model: EL2324
UPC: 084367023247
EAN: 0084367023247
ASIN: B001E8LORA
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Use the black side as the snowbrella, flip over to the silver side for the sunbrella. | | • | Snowbrella saves you time before you drive away - eliminates scraping your windhield when it snows! | | • | Sunbrella protects your vehicle's interior from harmful UV rays. | | • | Easy and fast installation. Simply cover windshield outside, pull the ends of the cords inside the window and hook them together in the middle, then close car doors. | | • | One size fits all. |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Doesn't Cover Windshield and Hooks to Short December 4, 2008
I'm having the same problem as mentioned by other customers. The elastic hooks at the bottom of the cover will not hook to the rearview mirror-they are too short. The cover also leaves the top and bottom of my windshield exposed and I drive a compact car.
I was going to use the product even with it's faults because it was my only option. The weather forecast was calling for rain so I folded the cover up and placed back in the attached storage case. I tried to zip the case and the zipper attachment broke off leaving me unable to close the case for storage. I'm sending it back and starting the search to find a good windshield cover again.
 Awkward to use, and too small for my windshield November 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I ordered this product I thought I'd finally hit on the "right" kind of windshield cover. It certainly sounded like exactly what I wanted.
The problem is that the product has problems. First, the windshield cover did not entirely cover my windshild -- and I don't own a large car. A similar, cheaper product that served me well for about six years DID cover my windshield; I wasn't wild about the suction cups that secured it in place, but if I slammed my door fast enough the suction cups would hold.
The Wagan EL2324 Snowbrella/Sunbrella leaves the top and bottom of my windshield uncovered.
[My old, cheap windshield cover allowed me to secure it from the outside as well as the inside just by using my windshield wipers as an extra "hold" mechanism.]
When I use my new cover, it simply is not possible to utilize my windshield wipers to hold down the lower, outside part of the cover. If you live in Maine, as I do, you know that winter brings with it driving sleet, or ice, or plain old ordinary Nor'easters, complete with gale winds.
My old product defied almost all that a Maine winter can throw at you. If you can use the windshield wipers to hold the outside cover down, snow/sleet/ice cannot freeze on my window; the windshield cover prevents that from happening.
That will not happen with this product; I've got to buy a new cover, probably cheaper, and hope it works better.
Then there is the overly complicated hook-and-click method of securing the cover.
The directions told me to use one part of the elastic to hold the thing in place by hooking it over my rearview mirror. I tried. Over and over and over again; I TRIED. It didn't hold.
Eventually, after much muttering and opening and closing and locking car doors, I managed to get the thing to come together so I could snap together the two sides of the elastic that holds the cover in place from the inside. I managed, but it was annoying at best.
THEN I got a surprise -- I was headed for my trunk to unload the bags from the trip to the supermarket, and while walking around the front of the car I spied a little HOOK on a VERY SHORT elastic, which was dangling from the bottom section of the Snowbrella on the outside of the front doors of my car.
When I saw said hook, I realized that IT was what I was supposed to loop over my rearview mirror. I tried. It didn't work. The elastic was 1) too short to reach the mirror, and 2) it was on the BOTTOM side of the cover, which made it a completely useless "extra thingy" on my Snowbrella.
If I were using the product as a SUNbrella, it would have worked fine, because I'd only have to flip the whole thing over, and those short elastics with hooks attached would have been in the right place. Although I'm still not sure if it would work -- a short elastic is a short elastic, Sunbrella or Snowbrella. I may try it when summer comes and see if it will work then.
In the meantime, I'll use the Wagan until I can find a substitute, probably cheap [YES!], cover with suction cups, that won't say "SUNBRELLA" or "SNOWBRELLA" on the outside [no doubt a not-very-subtle advertising gimmick].
If I can find a product like what I had before, it will cost me less than $10. It won't look beautiful, but it's not meant to be beautiful; it's meant to cover my windshield from snow/sleet/ice. I'm sure I can find one somewhere. Probably right here at Amazon.com.
And you know what? When I find it, it will COVER my windshield, ENTIRELY.
IT WILL WORK.
Meantime, the folks at Wagan need to go back to the drawing board.
I'll go shopping for a different product later. I'm too worn out from writing this totally negative review to go shopping now!
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