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At last managed to get another DashDKWW2000 wrote:I thought I could live with it but as you say, it is starting to really gnaw away at me so I think the time is approaching
I must source a decent replacement first
I was secretly hoping someone would come up with a magic solution
ound it locally with a few other bits, now comes the hard part.lickily?.................. what did you have to do for it?DKWW2000 wrote:
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that's a right touch Pete, these aren't easy to get hold of these days with the very low number of parts cars available....... let us know how many new swear words you invent installing thisDKWW2000 wrote:A chance phone call to the ex owner of a scrapped wreck from which the dash had been removed
I am probably going to wait until the Autumn as the show season is upon us (1st at Dawlish this Sun) & its pretty much right through to Sep.ian65 wrote: that's a right touch Pete, these aren't easy to get hold of these days with the very low number of parts cars available....... let us know how many new swear words you invent installing this
I very much doubt that one of them will be lickily (although one never knows)ian65 wrote:let us know how many new swear words you invent installing this
DOH! It is not Devon slang (I was going to say it was) but a Typo - My bad 
Well I "Bit the Bullet" & took the dash out, Lickily it was not as bad as I thought it would be, probably because I had the luxury of the replacement & I could see where all the fixings were locatedian65 wrote:Pete,
I'd change it if I were you..... it's not too difficult.... I changed the whole interior on my current silver car ( including the dash top) in a weekend because I didn't like the wine red interior that came as standard on sunbeam silver cars.
If you were to remove the whole dash, ie. steel frame and everything then that's a right nightmare but just swapping the dash top is easily achievable in a day even if you haven't done it before..... it's just a case of being methodical and remembering how you removed the damaged one.
As your car is so nice it's a shame to have this damaged top and even if you cover it up, you'll still know the damage is there...... If you can live with it fine but if it was me, I'd have to replace it.
The biggest problem is dropping on another dash top to replace yours with..... maybe that black parts car on ebay might be able to provide one if you can track down the buyer.
