Dash repair

[Blanca]

I have the usual cracks in my dashboard, three in all anyone know the best way to repair it without leaving a scar

[Bonymaenjack]

viewtopic.php?f=97&t=280949

[BHadley]

Did try a smart repair guy on my 1st E30, every option used reacted...

That said leather skinned ones properly fitted look great.

[flybynite]

I know of no small scale repair that will leave no scar, this is 30+ year old vynyl over weak 30+ year old foam.

Until BMW (if they ever do) re-make them the only way of getting a factory finish again are these guys. They have mixed reviews in the porka world and prices are high even without shipping a dash halfway round the world. They are not particularly good to deal with either



Unless leather is done really well it can look cheap as well as being very expensive. I have not found anyone whose leather work inspires me with confidence

Best option for an easy fix is one of the Australian dash covers, hides the crack stops it getting worse

[Bonymaenjack]

I know of no small scale repair that will leave no scar, this is 30+ year old vynyl over weak 30+ year old foam.

Until BMW (if they ever do) re-make them the only way of getting a factory finish again are these guys. They have mixed reviews in the porka world and prices are high even without shipping a dash halfway round the world. They are not particularly good to deal with either



Unless leather is done really well it can look cheap as well as being very expensive. I have not found anyone whose leather work inspires me with confidence

Best option for an easy fix is one of the Australian dash covers, hides the crack stops it getting worse

I did many years ago toy with the the idea but the images didn't exactly fill me with confidence that it would look anywhere half decent
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from ... h&_sacat=0

[flybynite]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from ... h&_sacat=0

To be honest I wouldn't touch those eBay kits with a barge pole. IMHO they would look worse than a simple tidy repair that was still visible. like this thread. I one of the other posts there you can see the mess a kit like that made. You can see the remains of the joins all over the place

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=279349&p=2963744&hi ... h#p2963744

The dash mat I was looking at is this one.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-Dashma ... SwTM5ex1mY

[Bonymaenjack]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from ... h&_sacat=0

To be honest I wouldn't touch those eBay kits with a barge pole. IMHO they would look worse than a simple tidy repair that was still visible. like this thread. I one of the other posts there you can see the mess a kit like that made. You can see the remains of the joins all over the place

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=279349&p=2963744&hi ... h#p2963744

The dash mat I was looking at is this one.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-Dashma ... SwTM5ex1mY

Cheers , yes i wasn't impressed , I have a very small 2mm split which has just appeared so i'm gutted about that . Who ever comes up with a solution to this in which any repair is invisible is going to become very wealthy

[Blanca]

Once upon a decade I bought a kit that consisted of some coloured plastic, hardener, tools and embossed paper of differing leather grains which were iron into the finished repair, I seem to remember it was very successful. Dammed if I can find it nowadays.