Carpet replacement
04-15-2011, 04:00 PM
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Nordschleife Master
Good for you! i took the easy route and now my car is an RS replica haha. no sound deadening and light perlon felt instead of expensive carpet replacement... its lookin good! i wouldn't mind a dash replacement myself...
04-15-2011, 07:59 PM
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Burning Brakes
Nice write up! I am thinking of getting a classic9 dash cover also...any idea how hard they are to install? Also would like to do seat covers...havent decided were I am going to order them from.
04-16-2011, 02:14 PM
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I will know more about the dash cover by the end of the week. Hay fever is kicking up today with the wind and tomorrow is a Motorcycle day so not much is likely to get done this weekend. But then it's on to the dash cover.
My seats could use a recover as the front bottoms both have a pair of rips. But I keep making screeming sounds when I think of how much good seat covers cost. I have some material and I have glue so I am going to try and patch the holes and get by for a while longer. No, that is not the best solution but it's free.
Woody
My seats could use a recover as the front bottoms both have a pair of rips. But I keep making screeming sounds when I think of how much good seat covers cost. I have some material and I have glue so I am going to try and patch the holes and get by for a while longer. No, that is not the best solution but it's free.
Woody
04-20-2011, 10:09 PM
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Some people tread carefully when they reach a slippery slope. You just put on your skis and go! I can't wait to see the before/after pics. Lookin' good so far!
10-06-2011, 10:12 AM
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Finishing up
Time to close this out.
The dash is back in and everything even seems to work. Recovering the dash was not that hard but I was truly out of my comfort zone by taking that on. Looks like a whole new car, at least on the inside.
I messed up and did not lay the seam down in the correct spot and the line drops about an inch on the right side. My bad: but it's still better than it was and most will not noticed the mistake. If a person were to practice laying the seam down several times before adding glue you should not have any problems.
A prior owner must have put a larger bodied radio in the console at some time in the past. The radio that was in it was a bit loose and supported by a 2x4. This mostly worked but I bought a new radio with blue tooth, iPod and some stuff I don't know what it is. I did wanted it to fit correctly for a change and since it was apart this was the time to find out what was going on.
Seems that the opening for the radio had been ground out all the way around the opening making it too large for the DIN bracket to grab anything. I used a steal bar on the bottom of the opening to support the radio and an aluminum plate around the opening to return it to the right shape. Then filled in the gaps with some epoxy to bring the strength up to where it needs to be. After a bit of file work to position the whole in the correct spot, the DIN bracket now locked nicely into place. I probably should have done this a couple years ago but I did not realize how bad it was.
Project done at last. . no that's not right. A 944 is never finished.
Woody
The dash is back in and everything even seems to work. Recovering the dash was not that hard but I was truly out of my comfort zone by taking that on. Looks like a whole new car, at least on the inside.
I messed up and did not lay the seam down in the correct spot and the line drops about an inch on the right side. My bad: but it's still better than it was and most will not noticed the mistake. If a person were to practice laying the seam down several times before adding glue you should not have any problems.
A prior owner must have put a larger bodied radio in the console at some time in the past. The radio that was in it was a bit loose and supported by a 2x4. This mostly worked but I bought a new radio with blue tooth, iPod and some stuff I don't know what it is. I did wanted it to fit correctly for a change and since it was apart this was the time to find out what was going on.
Seems that the opening for the radio had been ground out all the way around the opening making it too large for the DIN bracket to grab anything. I used a steal bar on the bottom of the opening to support the radio and an aluminum plate around the opening to return it to the right shape. Then filled in the gaps with some epoxy to bring the strength up to where it needs to be. After a bit of file work to position the whole in the correct spot, the DIN bracket now locked nicely into place. I probably should have done this a couple years ago but I did not realize how bad it was.
Project done at last. . no that's not right. A 944 is never finished.
Woody
10-09-2011, 10:44 AM
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To anyone that may need parts I have a like new full carpet an dash crack free and other parts oouy of my 944 T u can email me @ tjporsche75@aol.com
