Sun Zapper Innovative Glare Shield

I bought this after seeing pretty good reviews about it. I have had it for at least three months now and love it. I am only 4' 8" and the visor in a car never works well enough for me. I found this for a couple bucks here on amazon and have loved it ever since. I like being able to slide the darkener around so when the sun is really in one spot I can block it out well.I have seen a few people say that it is made cheap and I will agree that it is. Though, as long as you don't plan on wrestling with your visor then it should be fine. My father has a horrible habit of stuffing every piece of paper he can find between the visor and the ceiling so I wouldn't recommend it for people with that habit as well.Overall this is a great product and I am very happy to have found it.

Short people may have no reason to live, but I have to and also drive. For my Honda Fit, I realized I needed something to cut through the blinding sun. Well, this did the trick.1. The dark sunspot is a huge help...when the sun hits on the left side, I just move the shield over and adjust the sunspot.2. I clean it each week with a kleenex...otherwise there are fingerprints all over, and I want a clear view.3. One of the connectors broke. But that was an easy fix. Even though I have no power tools, I simply spent about five minutes creating a hole with a hammer, screw, and screwdriver. Then, I tied a little wire through to connect with the holder. Bam. I actually have a better product. Felt very proud of myself, though other drivers must think I'm crazy as I pat myself on the back.Works for me, and I bought an extra so I can use when renting other models for business trips.

I bought this for my 5"2' wife frequently who has had to fight blinding sun while driving for years. No matter how she positioned her seat - left, right, up, down - she could not escape the brightness. I discovered the "Sun Zapper," read most of the pro & con reviews and then looked at and read about every other similar product available through Amazon. This one appeared to be the best all-around device. She has been using it for about a month now and she loves it. So easy to install that it went into service minutes after arrival and - Viola! - sun problem is now totally recent history. Some complained about it being flimsy and the hinges breaking. If one handles the Sun Zapper roughly, I can see where it might break. With just a modicum of good sense and care, the hinges should be plenty sturdy enough. It is a very good product that meets it's intended purpose with excellence.

Definitely not worth buying except for a diffuser. The shield is blurry to look through, like looking through blurry jello. I drive straight into the sun both going into work and heading home. Luckily most is expressway so it acts as a shield. It would be very dangerous if you had to see through it.

As others have said, this is not made from optically-correct plastic. The distortion in mine isn't too bad... it's certainly not a hazard. It doesn't hide anything on the road, and it's not at all difficult to tell where things are. It's just not what I'm used to from a device intended to be looked through.I've had it for a couple weeks now, and the clips have held up just fine, the extra panel slides smoothly, and it flips in and out of position with no problem.My remaining complaints:1) it's a bit smaller than I'd like (a limitation to fit so many different visors, I suppose)2) it has about a half-inch gap between the plastic and the sun visor, where the sun ALWAYS seems to be these days -- I'm always slouching to get it to block the sun for me.3) the extra panel is usually in the way. It's not convenient enough to remove/replace while driving.4) the nature of the device's geometry and the way light bounces around inside plastic means when I have it put away, some of the sunlight it collects gets refracted right into my face. It works a little bit like a fiber optic -- sun hits the surface, bounces around internally, and comes out the edges. Since the edges are so nicely rounded, it's evenly distributed over a 180-degree arc. No matter how it's pointed, some light will get you in the eye. Nowhere near as intense as the straight sun itself, but still, an annoyance.5) it's fixed in position to the sun visor. I've never had a car where the sun visor blocked the low sun more than about 50% of the time. It always seems to be just out of reach of the visor. Too far back on the side window, where the visor's too short to get, or between the two visors, above the rear view mirror. If you have that problem too, understand this will do nothing to help you. It can only hang directly below the visor. If it could slide on a rail to extend the reach of the visor, they'd really have something.I'm 6 feet tall, and sit with the driver's seat all the way back. Most of the time, the roof of the car blocks the sun just fine. Only rarely am I driving directly into the sun; my evening drive home to the west snakes north and south enough that the sun blasts me through the side window and above the rear view mirror as much as it hits me head-on. In my case, sunglasses make a much bigger difference on glare, and what's left is mostly the sun reflecting off of my white shirt into my eyes. If you're not very sensitive to sun (don't usually wear sunglasses) and have to deal with the sun right over the road in front of you, especially if you're shorter and could use a vertical extension on the visor, this could be perfect for you. I hardly use it at all, myself.