Dash flock accomplished!

[Balleristic31]

This^ I want to do this to all of my consoles.

[deutschman]

I know a guy who did this on his fiberglass e30 dash, and it looked really nice. I think Ill do this with my 2002.

[Jean]

Wow! More pics please and how to?

[GlassBreaker]

Did you get it installed yet? I'm curious to how much material gets rubbed off during the installation.

Thanks for documenting your process and material selection in your build thread.

I've been meaning to find a cracked dash and introduce this technique, as my current dash is uncracked (for now) and I couldn't waste a good one for experimentation.

[alpinescott]

Inspired to do mine this way! Nice

[irish44j]

put it back in today. Basically once it's dried for a day, you can just blow any loose material off (with compressed air, or just air from your mouth). It's really light stuff.

When installing it I didn't notice any coming off on my hands or anything (though I'm sure some did). I really had to manhandle the dash to get it back in, and none of the areas I handled had any patches rub off or anything. I also vacuumed it with a shop vac lightly with the regular nozzle and didn't notice it taking any off.

Really the only place on the dash that I'm not happy with is the forward edge of the "tray" on the passenger side. I didn't notice it before, but I clearly put the adhesive on too thick and a bit of it ran, so there are some subtle "bumps" in that area. The adhesive is really thick stuff, so I must have just gotten alot there and not smoothed it out well with my brush. You can kind of see it in the pic below, though it's nothing terrible.

Couple quick pics. Next week I'll take some in sunlight.

[irish44j]

Wow! More pics please and how to?

check out the link to my build thread on the previous page. I did a mini how-to in there. It's pretty simple...prep, coat, toss the flocking. Let it dry. Done.

[irish44j]

Where did you get the flocking supplies?

www.Donjer.com

Look under "products" - it's the "mini-flocker kit"

btw, anyone who does this - you want the NYLON fibers (which are weatherproof), rather than the Rayon ones (which are for jewerlery boxes and other stuff that isn't going to see much use, or the sun)

[reelizmpro]

Not bad. That would go well with say...a suede/alcantara interior. Not to mention it saved you the cost of having to get another dash.

[Jand3rson]

That flock looks AMAZING, well done! I've been kicking around the idea of doing this for YEARS, I've always thought it was a great idea. My dash cracked right after I bought my E30, and we swapped in a perfect one from a 318is. Now it has 2 little cracks in the storage area up top, and this is a perfect solution!

Love the rear seat delete/cargo area, too! I built the exact same thing last year, I'm planning on revamping it a little bit here pretty soon, it looks identical to yours!

This is very impressive, glad to see someone finally did it, now I REALLY want to do mine.

[irish44j]

Thanks, kind of happy that I had a crappy dash because I've always wanted an excuse to try this, lol.

Here's a couple close-up pics in case anyone wants to get a feel for the length/texture a bit closer up.

[CoreyZ]

Now I know what I'm doing to my cracked dash this summer :)

[MR 325]

Looks good, I definitely dig it. Does this stuff basically just fill in the cracks or did you do something else to fill them first?

[irish44j]

Looks good, I definitely dig it. Does this stuff basically just fill in the cracks or did you do something else to fill them first?

I filled the cracks with plastic epoxy (after beveling the culing up edges). Then I did finish work with some glazing putty in the small holes that still weren't smooth.

The flocking doesn't fill anything but minor imperfections - so if you don't fill the cracks fairly smooth, you will still be able to see it a little bit. I can still see where a few of my repairs were if I look real close. But I did a half-assed job filling them, lol

I had some major cracks, this is after I cut the edges to a bevel:


before sanding:

[noE30]

That looks great in car! I'm really thinking about doing this to my dash as I've got about 6 decent length cracks, nothing too deep though thankfully. My only problem is that my car is 100% a street car IE: no track time, and I always considered a flocked dash kind of "motorsporty" so I don't want it to come across ricey I guess. I'm leaning towards flocking it anyway though!