S3C Dashboard repair - veneer required urgently!

[Snooky_S3C]

Chaps,

Due to recent temperature changes, the horrible plastic veneer on the main dash has decided to bubble up and fall off making the whole interior look s**tty!

Someone did offer a service on here where a relative/friend of theirs was producing replacement veneers that were applied with the dash in situ but I can't find that link anywhere!

Does anyone know anything about this or does anyone have an old S3 dash lying around that I could buy & use as a template?

Cheers


Steve

[bugsy]

It depends how much you want to pay, you can take the dash panel off and get London carriagecraft to do it for about £160 or you can go down Homebase and get some photofinish foil and do it yourself for about £30 tops.

[Hoover33]

or you can take the venner off all together IIRC.... then either polish up the metal back or paint it to match the car ( I reckon this might look quiet good with the right interior)

[dougc]

Along the same lines, has anyone got the measurements of the centre heater/lights control panel? Planning on knocking up a template, fabricating a few new plywood panels and trimming them to see what they look like/if I can do a decent job. Dimensions would save me having to take the panel out, measure it and put it back again before I get started.

Sorry to hi-jack your thread Snooky

[Wildfire]

I have a Polished Stainless Steel overlay for a S3. Fit straight over.

[Snooky_S3C]

Cheers guys!

The car is at David Batty's at the mo & he's getting her ready for me as I have to sell He's offered to take the dash out for me and I think I've found someone who will be able to cut a template & produce some really nice walnut veneer.

Its a bummer as its gonna cost a few hundred sheets but at least someone will benefit from the nice new dash!

Still there could be a market for quick & easy veneers if we could develop one that can be applied to the car without taking the dash out!!!

[ceejay73]

I have a David Gerald receipt in front of me for S3 dash veneered (£250) and switch surround panel (£49.99). Total £299.99 ex VAT. But that was in October 2003. They also charged £191.25 ex VAT to fit em....... Am I ever glad that was before I got the car

Just to give an idea of costs, hope its of some use..

[z_chromozone]

I have some solid walnut which I am replacing mine with when I get the chance. When I looked at costs of real wood finishing Black Walnut Croch veneer it actually worked at cheaper for me to do it this way. (Mostly because the press I have access too is not large enough to press the whole dash). A lot of the real wood veneer I looked at you could see the stitching when polished. Obviuosly with real wood you cannot go for the endgrain look at a walnut tree is not that big, but the lateral grain looks quite pleasing to me anyway.



Z