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Dash and Glove Box door are done..
Well, the long road is almost over, the dash and glove box door are done, and will be getting installed some time next weekend more than likely!
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The finished product. Looks awesome in person. But the takeaway? Pay someone else to do this job for you. It took forever to get the corners tucked in properly and the chemicals are known to every state to give you cancer.
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I cant wait to compare this to the leather dash I am having done!
Looks great!
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I bet yours comes with considerably less cancer.
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ha but at some more $$. it will be interesting to compare the low budget project to having a shop do it.
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Did you already drop it off with the shop? I'll be curious to see how it looks against the Factory leather. I'm seriously considering finding a shop that can exactly match the factory vinyl and get the 968's dash recovered.
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That is really nice. Toxicity warnings notwithstanding, I would like to give something similar a try, only on my door panels (which I suspect would be a litte easier). I wonder if he would pre-cut me a kit.
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The hardest part was getting the vinyl to adhere properly in the corners and anywhere else there was a compound curve. Really, cutting it was so easy it was almost an afterthought. You should try to find some junkyard door cards and go from there. Then you could do something really wild like build your own M490 setup.
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Yea I dropped it of a few days ago. We matched the leather very well. He probably has 10k samples to sort through
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Dash looks awesome John. Having worked in car audio for years, I know how hard curves can be. The type of vinyl can impact on this greatly, but often you have to use what you have. A heat gun and patience are you 2 best friends.
After having my door trims off a few times, I can see they would be a very easy re-trim. If it's you first effort then go with some used trims. I am tempted to customise mine, just to get some better speakers in, but it's a project for down the track. I agree with John that you could do some really creative and wild trims pretty easy, it's only limited by you imagination peace Cyberpunky |
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the entire top was covered sans heat gun.. just forming the vinyl by hand! |
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The heat gun can really save some time, so when you are doing it for living, it's essential, but otherwise it's the other best friend you need...patience
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Well, I can officially say...
It is MUCH quicker pulling a dash and re-installing it with someone else assisting.. Old dash out, new dash in... 1:32 elapsed time! It looks and feel amazing in the car, I have a few bits here and there to sort, but I am VERY happy to have a totally uncracked dash in my car! |
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