In a message dated 12/8/04 10:46:20 AM Eastern Standard Time,
h2oboxer@OPTONLINE.NET writes:

> 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.
>
>
>

it looks pretty sharp..i replaced a brown dash w/ a black one in a 86 westy
before.. the gauge cluster is black, as well as all swiotches, etc, so it looks
good.  i have a nice black dash FS if anyone is interested.. will fit any
year vanagon.
chris