Mike,

I just removed my dash to replace the heater core.
In my van (85) the padded dash is glued and screwed in from underneath.
There are about 8 screws holding it in and about a dozen or so little
Screw type clips holding it on along the passenger compartment edge.

I am looking to find some solution to recover it, since it is almost
impossible to find a replacement (brown) in any better shape than the one I
am removing. If worse comes to worse I will either consider replacing a
black padding on my brown dash (need to see how it looks) or just replace
the entire dash with a black one. The black dashes are much more common and
For some reason seem to hold up better.

You can't just remove the pad because of the holes that will be left in the
dash. Good luck and keep me updated.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Michael Rule
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 6:07 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Dashtop revamping

Hi All,

Has anyone tried removing the top pad that comes on some of the 80's dashes
to get down to the hard plastic dash?  My 84 Westy dash looks alot like a
pan of over-baked brownies that has sat out uncovered for a week... my 84
van looks much better/cleaner, even tho it is just plastic.  I'm wondering
if this has been tried, and if whatever adhesive (if there is any) holds it
on is removable from the underlying plastic.  I can live with having to
relocate the cool passenger map lite.

Cheers,
Mike

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