v8ian
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With my new project, an old ford, The dash top has the Vacuum formed plastic over a foam and steel core, It has the typical Vinyl cracking, a couple that are quite a big 5mm wide, these dash tops are rearer than the poor quality wobbly children's play pony excrement, so, It needs to be repaired, it will need filling and recovering with a suitable stretch vinyl, searching the new, elastic fillers for this seem to be few and far between, my thoughts are now heading towards Sikkaflex, as I intend to recover, the grain does not need to be replicated, so I am just using it as a elastic filler........ Your thought gentlemen please
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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I'm watching this as I have similar issues.
I have also been watching various FB posts from a company called "Trimline Systems" who have bought themselves a suitable machine for re-covering dashes like this, and they keep posting videos as they try to get it working.
Web site is justdashes.uk.com - I tried emailing them but got no reply, I may try again closer to when I need them.
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Ditto , same problem on a mk3 Escort
Ive seen dash fillers but they only seem to be available in the states, not sure if they contained chemicals banned in the UK
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Jun 30, 2021 13:32:19 GMT
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This is going to sound crazy but I swear it’s true. I had the same problem on my Delorean dash, which is the same type of construction. I ‘grooved’ out the cracks with a Stanley knife. Put a couple of thin sheets of glass fibre matting & resin over, just to give it some body, so to speak. Filled them with bog standard body filler & flatted it back. I sprayed the whole thing with stone chip from a can, which gives it the ‘mottled’ finish, pretty much identical to standard, then painted it in the correct satin grey colour. That was in about 2007 I’d guess, still looks absolutely perfect.
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Last Edit: Jun 30, 2021 14:19:47 GMT by rattlecan
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75swb
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There's proper kits you can get for it and some excellent YouTube how to videos.
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MonzaPhil
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Having previously looked for good options to repair this style of dashboard, I was recommended a place in Florida. It started getting rather expensive , mainly for shipping, and I lost interest.
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This is now a clicky linky!  |
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And yes he did the wrong side of the parcel shelf - now nicely remedied!  |
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Last Edit: Jul 1, 2021 12:19:08 GMT by jpsmit
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