Covering Dash With Vinyl

Re covering a dash 4883 by cale sat apr 06 2019 3 57 pm sat apr 06 2019 3 57 pm 4883 when it comes to re covering a modern dash what approach do you take.

Covering dash with vinyl.

A heavy weather resistant vinyl such as marine grade fabric works best for most vehicles. After sanding the aluminum with coarse sandpaper and cleaning with acetone. This dash has a gash on the passenger side just above. Everything looked absolutely perfect for a month.

Then plasti dipped the air vent covers with gun metal grey. Follow on social media for more cool projects. What s note worthy about roy s approach is that he uses no seams wrapping a dash in one solid piece of vinyl for a true factory finish. Step 1 decide what type of vinyl fabric is best for your dashboard.

This is the only archived pick i have. Covering your dash with vinyl fabric is an easy and effective way to protect your car and your wallet. On the fingers where the ends of the vinyl folded over curved edges of the aluminum i used weldwood contact cement. To check out how roy brings new life to the dashboard of a 1971 roadrunner visit roy keith classics.

Working evenly from the centre top work the vinyl over to the revers side and staple gun the vinyl to the reverse assuming you are useing an mdf or ply premount checking for and stretching out any wrinkles on the front as you go. Carefully lay out the vinyl and then lay the dash on top. I attached the vinyl to the bare aluminum dash with 3m super 77 spray adhesive. Lightly stretch the vinyl or leather over the dash rap around the edges and use adhesive on the backside edge only.