How about dash repair?

[StereoInstaller1]

We have a guy who comes to my shop and fixes dashboards fro insurance companies.

Freeky old hippie dewd, nice guy and all....awesome work.

I think cracked E30 dashes are a damn near limitless supply here, and he is willing to repair/re-texture and respray dashboards to make them look all new again.

What do you guys think? Would this be worth the hassle? He is thinking like $175ish, plus shipping.

I am gonna grab a dash or three and see what he comes up with.

Luke

[bataangpinoy]

go for it. see if he will try doing mtech 1 steering wheels in suede.

[Jand3rson]

That would be awesome, Luke. I'd love to see someone that could repair E30 dashboards, since good condition ones are getting more scarce all the time.

[StereoInstaller1]

go for it. see if he will try doing mtech 1 steering wheels in suede.

He is not re-wrapping, he is doing actual vinyl repair.

[Beach Bum]

Subscribed. I realized today I have a dash cover, and when I popped it off to look at the dash...

[Tree18is]

cool, if you could turn around dashboards im sure your wallet would like it, maybe get in good with the guy get it down to 175 shipped!:D
but either way its worth it, because who says the "perfect condition" one you just bought isnt gonna shit out in a couple of years. where as these might last another 20

[scabzzzz]

I think for the money, I'd rather wrap my dash in leather.
But yeah, that would cool to have someone on tap that can fix a dash!

[AndrewBird]

Good luck finding a place to wrap a dash in leather for $175. The leather alone would cost that.

I'm interested to see pictures of the final product.

[StereoInstaller1]

Watching what the guy did to a huge knife gash on an '05 Yukon blew my mind...perfect paint match, flawless texture match (crumpled aluminum foil FTW!) it just looked perfect.

So who has a spare cracked dash? I needs it for free!

[DrMcDave]

Watching what the guy did to a huge knife gash on an '05 Yukon blew my mind...perfect paint match, flawless texture match (crumpled aluminum foil FTW!) it just looked perfect.

So who has a spare cracked dash? I needs it for free!

I have one if you want to pay to ship it. I am sure you can find one more local.

[Rennsport]

I've got one, you have to come take it out of the parts car though

[StereoInstaller1]

I've got one, you have to come take it out of the parts car though

How badly cracked is it?

[Beach Bum]

Lo and behold. For the first time in E30 history, we seek a cracked dash. Oh the irony.

[xLibelle]

my concern is, once a dash gets to the condition of showing a crack or two, its all over. more will appear due to the rest of the dash being in the same condition, ready to split.

is there a guarantee of some sort?

i dunno, maybe i'm wrong but i would be PISSED is i just installed a repaied dash and it obtained a new crack soon after.