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Sleykin · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:46 am Post subject:

[quote="Joes924Racer"]yea, well its easy ernough to post your own pics.
Heres one... TPWWP.

So, This post is worthless with pictures??

This is the best view of the texture. The stuff fills heavy scratches and small cracks nicely but still has much of the "leather texture" from the original dash.

The white speckely stuff is just reflection and you can vary the texture from fairly rough to quite smooth by how close you hold the can and how wet you apply it.
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Sleykin · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:59 am Post subject:

[quote="joejax"]Definitely rethinking my dash toupee....ugghhh!!!

I figured no matter how bad it turned out I could still put a rug on it

I was a bit timid and only worked on the top that I could cover with a rug till I was happy with the way it was going. Wish I had found the bondo fender putty before I started. I ended up using 5 cans and I am sure I could have done it with 2 cans using the bondo and making it really flat first. The only real drawback to the truck bed liner is that you can recoat for up to an hour (dries really fast) but after an hour you have to wait 24 hours. It takes about 4 hours for it to dry enough to sand well so you spray a coat and wait 24 hours to work on it more. Oh and it only comes in black so you would have to spray it with a plastic spray coloring to get other colors.
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87' 924S

Grenadiers · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:04 am Post subject:

Hmmm, have about 6 dashes to experiment with this winter. hmmmm, nice.
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Joes924Racer · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:21 am Post subject:

This post is rolling needles to say he didnt do a good job, he did.
Never would of thought of bedliner in that way.
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Sleykin · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:45 am Post subject:

I used the roll on type for my workbench top and it made an incredibly cool surface for working on stuff...if I could ever find the top again LOL.
I just figure if it can stand up to the bed of a truck it should easy on a dash. I saw the bondo and tooldip idea a few years ago and it has sorta just been perking along till now.
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joejax · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject:

That is top notch work there, looks really good. Mine came with the rug...

I've never taken it off, kind of peaked under it one time, I'm afraid to take it off..

It might be like when Darth Vader took his mask off

scary stuff!
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Sleykin · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:48 pm Post subject:

Mine came with a plastic dash overlay and the wors part of the whole job was getting the darn RTV off. I used contractors solvent. Sorta like goof off on steroids to finally get it to break loose. It was still a major mess.
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BionicBalls · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 642 Location: Charlotte, NC

I really like your work, I can only see the one big crack on the passenger side showing through. Still, I bet it was a lot less work than recovering the dash as I did. I may try a modified version of this on one of my 931s.
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Sleykin · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:42 am Post subject:

Yeah, don't do it like I did

But the bondo and truck bedliner are good to work with and seem perfect for the job. Had I used the bondo from the start and been a bit more aggressive in grinding out the crack you wouldn't see that one either. Treat it sorta like body work. If you can feel where you are repairing it you will see it too. I thought it would blend better and hide the minor change in level but you can still see a few spots. The das vynil seems to fold out along the cracks and you gotta grind that down first.
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87' 924S

Rattlinbone · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 265 Location: Seattle, WA

I really like the way these refurbished dashes look. I might do it to mine. What I'm most curious about is how will it hold up? Will those cracks reappear in a month or a year or two?
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Ozzie · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:11 am Post subject:

anyone heard of 3M Di-Noc?
Seen some impressive work done with it.

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BionicBalls · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 642 Location: Charlotte, NC

I think also, bondo may not be the best choice as it has no flexibility. A better choice would be some poly putty.
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Scorpio · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:58 am Post subject:

Sleykin · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:00 am Post subject:

JayZzzz4 · Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 544 Location: Milwaukee, WI USA

I see CorsePerVita is working on a dash,

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/924-931-944-951-968-forum/502791-what-did-you-do-to-your-924-944-today-112.html

Looks good man, keep it up.
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