P944S2

Okay so I have blue interior in my 944 S2 and that obviously includes the dashboard...My dashboard is extremely cracked and would love to get that covered...The problem is idk if a black ABS plastic cover would look good with the rest of the blue interior. If anyone has done this with blue interior pictures would be great so I could see what this looks like or if anyone has an alternative other than a carpet overlay. Thanks in advance

~Pete

DHC6

I have been contemplating the same thing. I am pretty sure that over the winter I will simply replace the interior with a black interior, and have the dash recovered by classic 9 leather (or possibly get the kit and do it myself). However I am curious to see if any on has put a back cover in a blue interior.

Grandpa#3

Hello, I had a plastic coverlay on my Dash. In this HOT Ga. sun/heat it buckled up and looked awful. It was a mess getting it back off and I now have a suede cover on the Dash. You can paint a black coverlay with any color you chose with Duplicolor bought at all most any Auto Parts Store and it works good on plastics, vinyls, and cloth.

Cheers,
Larry

Dash01

Seems like somebody on Rennlist recovered their dash with new vinyl over the stock covering, with some sanding and filling of cracks first.

Surely, that can be done by others, especially if you used 4 way stretch vinyl, which comes in various colors. Seems like careful application of adhesive, and vacuum, would work.

Thoughts?

stogie25

The cover looked horrible when I bought my car. I ended up pulling the dash and taking it to an upholstery shop to have it releathered. It was only a few hundred dollars, and only took a couple of hours to pull, and a couple more to replace. It could be done in any color you choose.

Finished.



Horrible cover.


Cracked dash.


Redone dash.


Without the dash.

86 951 Driver

That looks like a huge job to fix the cracked dash.

P944S2

Thanks for all the help guys...I was also thinking of just redoing my interior to black as well...only because a white 944 with black interior would be sexy as hell haha .....has anyone done this and is it difficult...i have made an excel spreadsheet of all the stuff (i think) that i would need and it didnt come out to be too terribly expensive and i think i can do it myself but how hard is it to replace every piece of colored interior with another?

P944S2

btw Stogie your interior looks awesome man!

elzergone

How bad is removal of the dash? Thats one of those things that has always made me cringe at the thought.

JohnKoaWood

I think the hardest part is not breaking the 20+ year old plastic pieces in teh process, and then sourcing replacements for the ones you do break....

royalschwarz

I did a thread about it a few years ago here:

https://rennlist.com/forums/924-931-...free-dash.html

Last I saw my old car, it still looked the same as it did when I first did the dash. Only thing you'd have to figure out is the defroster holes. I never finished them on that dash as it ended up being a track car. It really isn't hard at all and was less than $50 in materials.

P944S2

Nice work royal..however in my opinion if I went through the trouble to take the dash off i would most likely replace it with a black one just to start off the swap...how long did it take you to remove the entire dashboard? And how difficult was it?

RC713

Just did it myself, not too bad, great walk through on Clark's Garage. A second set of hands, even totally unskilled labor will be a help while actually physically pulling it off and out of the car.

P944S2

sweet man..well thanks alot guys ill post pictures whenever i decide what im doing

royalschwarz

I recovered a spare dash out of one of my parts cars to swap into my driver. The swap itself took maybe 2 or 3 hours (it was a few years ago so don't quote me on the time) to remove the old and put in the new. It's not difficult at all just lots of little screws and nuts to keep track of. Just remember to label everything and take lots of pics and notes to get everything back together right.