Anyone every remove these parts
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Anyone every remove these parts
The top dash and instruments sufficiently to put the instrument guage surround background piece out.
I have a interior shop dying a stock guage surround to guards red. I know the guages pull out fairly easy, but it looks as if you need to also take the top part of the dash off to change out the guage surround back piece. Is this a fairly easy job that an custome interior shop should be able to handle.
Mine is being done Monday and if there are any pointers I should pass along, I would appreciate it as they have not done this to a 964 before.
BTW, I think it will look sweet and will post pictures when I get it back Monday. If it looks bad, it will be easy to return to normal or back to the basic black surround.
I also have the RS or Tubro S seats coming in and they are going to recover the middle inserts to make one of them red. So the seats will be black, the grey and a red insert with black seat backs for now. May also do the seat backs in red but taking it one step at a time.
I have a interior shop dying a stock guage surround to guards red. I know the guages pull out fairly easy, but it looks as if you need to also take the top part of the dash off to change out the guage surround back piece. Is this a fairly easy job that an custome interior shop should be able to handle.
Mine is being done Monday and if there are any pointers I should pass along, I would appreciate it as they have not done this to a 964 before.
BTW, I think it will look sweet and will post pictures when I get it back Monday. If it looks bad, it will be easy to return to normal or back to the basic black surround.
I also have the RS or Tubro S seats coming in and they are going to recover the middle inserts to make one of them red. So the seats will be black, the grey and a red insert with black seat backs for now. May also do the seat backs in red but taking it one step at a time.
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Doug,
Removing the top of the dash was nice and easy, but I never went further to remove the dial surround.
You remove the air vent plastic strip at the windcreen end of the dash with (I think) 4 screws, and then remove the screws under this strip to release the back of the dash top. At either end of the dash (so covered by the doors when closed) are plastic covers that pull off to reveal long cross-head screws. Take these out too. Slide the clock out and you can get your fingers in to find a nut hidden between the clock aperture and the centre vents. Undo the nut (mine was finger tight), and the whole dash top lifts off.
Cheers,
David
Removing the top of the dash was nice and easy, but I never went further to remove the dial surround.
You remove the air vent plastic strip at the windcreen end of the dash with (I think) 4 screws, and then remove the screws under this strip to release the back of the dash top. At either end of the dash (so covered by the doors when closed) are plastic covers that pull off to reveal long cross-head screws. Take these out too. Slide the clock out and you can get your fingers in to find a nut hidden between the clock aperture and the centre vents. Undo the nut (mine was finger tight), and the whole dash top lifts off.
Cheers,
David
