I was lucky enough to have my dash split down the middle. That's a leather steering wheel cover streched across and stapled underneath.
For now, it beats Spending the $ for a new dash pad.

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no offense dude... thats ghetto

 

 

Guess I should have said that I don't have the $ for a replacement.

I also forget to mention that after trying to use a vynl repair kit from Canadian tire, the crack became a white foamy vally. Trust me, this looks better than it did.

If anyone wants to 'give' me a replacement so i can get rid of this 'gheto' cover up, let me know

 

That isn't ghetto. Duct tape is ghetto. At least you have some leather in the car now. You can always try to find a new pad at a junkyard. Bring some vinyl and leather conditioner with you and clean it up BEFORE you take it out... it softens it up and will prevent another cracked dash.

 

Yeah i hear ya, that stuff is absolute crap... there is no way to repair a cracked dash pad... i guess that isnt a bad temp deal... but definitely look in the yards and theres guys selling them all the time in the classifieds.

 

No, it's not ghetto, it's canadian

*hopes someone will get it*


*EDIT* This may help


-Derth

 

 

If you have money and are still looking for one in about 2 months, I'll have mine! I'm doing the 4th gen swap, and mines in perfect condition :P

I have seen them go on eBay for fairly cheap though. Like 10-15. Shipping was around 20.

 

 

Well, it was a good effort but you really need to look into replacing the dash. I paid 5.00 at my local junkyard to replace mine. JMHO because I'm a junior member. Good luck to ya.

 

I got my dash several years ago in a yard. Couldn't have gotten a better one brand new

...****ing canucks

 

stupid question...what causes dash cracks? I always assumed it was the sun beating down on a dash causes it to crack. Ive heard from other people that its because of our are unibodies.....any truth to that????

Dan

 

UV breakdown from the sun makes the vinyl fragile, then it cracks due to thermal expansion (low temperature causes the vinyl to shrink, causing tension, causing cracks).

Check this out. Here in the automotive capital of Canada, we have no 'pick a part' yards, and the few wreckers we have must just crush thirdgens from the get go (or are too lazy to look in the yard to see if they have any) because whenever I call or drop by, they never have anything...

 

RED GREEN!! :hail:

What causes dash cracks? Well, a few weeks ago the CD player in my S10 quit playing. I felt that like an old black and white TV set I could just give it a leeeetle thump on the dash to make all well.

I now have a cracked dash pad and a non functional CD player.

Eric

 

Massive amounts of torque

 

Man I'd like to find a dash pad on ebay go for less then 100 bucks!!!!!
I've been checking since nov.
ONly cracked up junkers go for under 50!!! its like 30 to ship em!! That sucks and no local ayrds have em so I'm stuck trying to extend and redo a trans am pad for mine that came w/ the car!! and had huge cracks right in the middle of it.

Duct tape is ******* get it right not ghetto they aint smart enough to use duct tape.

RED GREEN"S the man lol!!!!!!!!

 

I paid 200 for mine on ebay that was with shipping. 3 weeks later i got in my car and hit the corner of it with my kneww cracking the corner.

 

yeah I have one from ebay on the way. i hit my current dash pad like for time with my knee getting out of my car. So I think I need to practice watching myself.

Anyway when I get it im putting meguiars plastic and vinyl protectant.