Non cracked red dash

[mikeroc283]

Looking for a non cracked red dash pad for my 87 grand marquis. Cant seem to find any at the local yard.

[zoomie]

Looking for a non cracked red dash pad for my 87 grand marquis. Cant seem to find any at the local yard.

whoa local mang long time no see, cant find a nice one, but im pretty good at repairing them though.

[sly]

how do you repair a dash pad?

I may need said info if I ever want to make my MGM look decent again... or if the Mark needs patching.

[mikeroc283]

Dont think it can be repaired. Half of the speaker areas are gone.

[rick99601]

you should still be able to recover it.

[zoomie]

Dont think it can be repaired. Half of the speaker areas are gone.

oh the swiss cheese, nah easy fix, hmm guess il have to go find a somewhat decent one and fixer up ill do a nice writeup in the process, hmmmm this is a good winter project didnt spend a year in a an upholstry shop for nothing

[torquelover]

I kept looking for years and years. Just when I gave up and started thinking about rebuilding the one I had, a friend dropped off a nearly perfect dashpad:

http://www.supermotors.net/registry/19270/67620

I was going to redo mine by cutting out the damaged speaker grill area and flush mounting some speaker grilles I had laying around. I was then going to upholster the thing using speaker cloth or Alcantara. Not in my ability, but I did notice the two MIB cars I had seen had leather wrapped dashpads, with real nice French stitching along the edge facing the driver.

[zoomie]

I kept looking for years and years. Just when I gave up and started thinking about rebuilding the one I had, a friend dropped off a nearly perfect dashpad:

http://www.supermotors.net/registry/19270/67620

I was going to redo mine by cutting out the damaged speaker grill area and flush mounting some speaker grilles I had laying around. I was then going to upholster the thing using speaker cloth or Alcantara. Not in my ability, but I did notice the two MIB cars I had seen had leather wrapped dashpads, with real nice French stitching along the edge facing the driver.

ooooo lucky you mang! yours was in worse shape than mine lol, hmm ill have to check out those cars never really looked at them

[1987cp]

I kept looking for years and years. Just when I gave up and started thinking about rebuilding the one I had, a friend dropped off a nearly perfect dashpad

... which some donkey-hat has now cracked in a spot from hitting it with its left knee whilst getting in and out of the car. Seriously, what a loser.


FWIW, the one guy at StationWagonForums with the '81 Fox T-bird wagon fixed his cracked dash with some bits of metal rod over the disused speaker holds, expanding foam insulation, sanding the whole shebang, and then coating with rattlecan truck bed liner for a textured finish. Not sure how it looks in person, but it seemed decent enough in pictures.


Murphmobile's phantzy dash cap thing looks wonderful, though. IIRC his was $120ish, though I have no idea where he got it.

[zoomie]

... which some donkey-hat has now cracked in a spot from hitting it with its left knee whilst getting in and out of the car. Seriously, what a loser.


FWIW, the one guy at StationWagonForums with the '81 Fox T-bird wagon fixed his cracked dash with some bits of metal rod over the disused speaker holds, expanding foam insulation, sanding the whole shebang, and then coating with rattlecan truck bed liner for a textured finish. Not sure how it looks in person, but it seemed decent enough in pictures.


Murphmobile's phantzy dash cap thing looks wonderful, though. IIRC his was $120ish, though I have no idea where he got it.

rofl lol i can not only fix a dash but recover the thing in any color/pattren thats available, ill be starting mine after the new year

[1987cp]

Sounds exciting! I once had a notion of covering every cosmetically-significant piece of plastic inside the car with nice faux-leather vinyl material, and even bought myself some in a nice burgundy, but never got further than the initial head-scratching with that project.

[WagonMan]

I have a close to perfect red pad from an '84.
It has the center speaker as well as the outer speakers. It has a minor crack in the center speaker section. Let me know if you are interested. petev8@webtv.net WagonMan

[mikeroc283]

Id like to be able to not see cracks. Mines pretty bad. Heres what it looks like.

[zoomie]

Id like to be able to not see cracks. Mines pretty bad. Heres what it looks like.

easy fix mang! lol well ill be pulling a diff dash from the yard hee soon and ill start on the recover and repair here after the new year if you like what you see we will work soemthing out.

[85crownHPP]

at least yours isn't a bad as mine was! I got lucky and scored one from a fellow box fan.