After repairing my headliner with fiberglass and doing a little body work to my camaro I want to try and cover the old cracked dash pad in fiberglass and paint it to match the interior has anyone done this? If so does anyone have any pics?

 

No pics, but its easier than a headliner. Just reinforce everything with fiberglass resin/mat, then use some sort of finishing (icing) body filler and sand till level. Primer, then match color. Stronger than new.

 

I was thinking of doing the same thing. I think it would look awesome. Post pics when your done. Prefferably with a little how to.

 

1. remove dashpad. 2. clean off and cut away at curled cracks, and remove loose foam. 3. either fill valleys in dash with some sort of fiberglass fiber resin (recommended) or bodyfiller, (bondo, cheaper and not really recommended.) 4. When the filled cracks harden, lightly skimcoat the top and anything else not level with a good "icing" finish coat. 5. use a guidecoat of cheap flat primer to sand top level. 6. clean with grease and wax remover. 7. Primer with sandable primer, guidecoat primer and sand flat. 8. Paint dashpad color of choice, let dry.

 

i want to do this to. paint it blue to match my car.

 

Preciate it calamitas

 

I've been a bit busy this past week so I haven't been able to work on my car I'm not sure when I'll be able to but ill post pics of the progress on how it turns out when I start on it. Does anyone know if fiberglass or bondo will stick to the vinyl pad?

 

Yes to both of your questions. I recommend against using bondo as it will simply recrack... It does not work good for filling in cracks. I'd recommend using fiberglass.

 

Like I said lol, use fiberglass to fill all of your imperfections, then skimcoat with bondo, sand it down till even, primer then paint desired color or use some sort ov vinyl covering.

 

Just trying to pass on the do-it-right the first time knowledge bro, money is scarce these days lol.

 

I used some urethane epoxy that is still flexible when dry. Check out post #18 below. Not sure bondo is such good idea since it can absorb moisture. Regardless I found that underbody texture or bedliner spray works good to give you similar texture to stock. Just be sure that you spray texture a few seconds in the air before coating dash. That way you can get even texture coating.

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