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    Veteran Member Four Rings Jet Jockey's Avatar
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    UPDATE: Decided to re-do the OEM upper dash with a new process/material and this...

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    Turned out excellent, much better than my original material finish that was glued on. Very happy with the end product.

    First a look at my initial mod to my dash (back in January)...


    The dash before its initial transformation.




    The underneath portion after lots of fat trimming.




    The open end piece of what is left from the defrost duct.




    After some more weight trimming.




    And now the new/old finish after a fake suede like material was glued on. The problem with this set up is it wasn’t going to look good that long. Indeed we already had to fix it once or twice.




    Now for the newer finish and some extras…


    First we plastic welded some plastic to close off the endings of the defrost duct.




    Then we used some expending foam to block off the holes that made up the original vent outlets. These were later trimmed down. You can also see that the upper surface was taped over with aluminium tape to hide the round cut outs.




    Close up of the centre vents.




    To further secure the round cut outs a thin layer of hot glue was added to bond onto the aluminium tape.




    Then two small aluminium right angles were riveted in place.




    Close up of the riveted aluminium piece.




    Finally the final product of the finished dash. Because I don’t have the pictures showing the actual process on how the material was applied, I can tell you a special black glue is first applied to the dash and then it is taken into a small paint booth where the material is sort of spray painted on.




    Close up of the finish product. It’s almost like a very short crew cut haircut, LOL.


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    Veteran Member Three Rings MagnusS4's Avatar
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    Re: UPDATE: Decided to re-do the OEM upper dash with a new process/material and this.

    um is this a like a fabric that you spray glue and stretch over the dash?
    or
    is it purely a spray on material that when layered builds texture?
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    Veteran Member Four Rings ABanT's Avatar
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    Re: UPDATE: Decided to re-do the OEM upper dash with a new process/material and this.

    the latter.

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    Site Moderator Four Rings RippleChip's Avatar
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    Re: UPDATE: Decided to re-do the OEM upper dash with a new process/material and this.

    That looks really good.
    Is it similar to the bedliner stuff?
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