Front Dash Crack

FrenchUSFan said:

Coverlay provide generic colors which doesn’t fit exactly car code colors. I also look for dashskin but looking at pictures, the dark titanium is not exactly the same color as the car and they don’t provide airbag cover

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Understood, but I for one would not want an airbag cover, for fear or another flying piece of plastic.. but I guess it's all about personal preference.. hope you get yours to a condition you like.

check out www.dashskin.com they have nice layovers.

I got tired of the dash cracks that seemed to grow and get worse just by looking at it. I picked up a replacement dash for 100.00 a while ago. I remember it costing more to ship than what I paid for it. Since I am in the midst of rewiring and changing a few things. We smoothed and color matched the dash. Effort was completed this past weekend. Will work on the upper and lower glove box doors and the air bag cover this week.

The forward part of the dash and the airbag panel done and completed last night. Rest of the pieces should be ready by the end of this weekend.

Staggered 02 said:

I got tired of the dash cracks that seemed to grow and get worse just by looking at it. I picked up a replacement dash for 100.00 a while ago. I remember it costing more to ship than what I paid for it. Since I am in the midst of rewiring and changing a few things. We smoothed and color matched the dash. Effort was completed this past weekend. Will work on the upper and lower glove box doors and the air bag cover this week.

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Staggered 02 said:

The forward part of the dash and the airbag panel done and completed last night. Rest of the pieces should be ready by the end of this weekend.

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Heck yeah Staggered, that looks awesome.
Do you think the glare could possibly be a problem?
Seeing this makes me want to paint mine when I get a new one.

^^^ I don't think so. We'll see though. I have a couple of trucks. I don't think I'll be driving this one on a daily basis. I actually did the dash pieces on the High Country as well but limited to the existing plastics only. Did 2 colors on that to keep up with the H. C. interior piping color / theme.

Also swapped the H. C. instrument cluster for the Denali cluster. Nice little upgrade.

Staggered 02 said:

^^^ I don't think so. We'll see though. I have a couple of trucks. I don't think I'll be driving this one on a daily basis. I actually did the dash pieces on the High Country as well but limited to the existing plastics only. Did 2 colors on that to keep up with the H. C. interior piping color / theme.

Also swapped the H. C. instrument cluster for the Denali cluster. Nice little upgrade.

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That's good to know. I think I'm going to go this route in hopes to protect the dash, so I won't have to replace it again in my lifetime haha.

That cluster is nice, lookin good

What did you smooth it with? Thsts pretty impressive to get plastic to shine like that.Nice work!

992dr said:

That's good to know. I think I'm going to go this route in hopes to protect the dash, so I won't have to replace it again in my lifetime haha.

That cluster is nice, lookin good

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Yes, the cluster was a nice little upgrade indeed. Thanks for the comments. I figured I'd go this route as well as I got tired of the whole cracked dash thing. Let's hope it solves the issue.

Thanks again.

tungsten said:

What did you smooth it with? Thsts pretty impressive to get plastic to shine like that.Nice work!

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It's definitely a process and of course it's all in the prep. Always. There are many painters and shops that will not do this. Mostly because it's tedious time consuming work and labor intensive to get this finish. All of the plastics on most of my trucks are done like this or something a little different (i.e. dual colors).

Start with 320 grit to get the most bite and to bring down the texture. then some sanding, priming, sanding, color, sanding some body filler on areas that need a little fill (like around the handle to open the glove box. Clear, polish, more color, final clear final polish etc. on the 2011 the dash faces are not textured so less work but still must prep. Great results though.

I remain on track to get most of these done by the end of this weekend, er tonight. There are few more that need some final work but the lion share of al of the parts are done.