It is not just the dash top that lasts longer in black. All of the brown
plastic parts seem to suffer far more from sun damage than the same
parts do in black. I suspect that is one reason why the brown plastic
interiors were dropped in favor of only black after 87 or so.

I prefer the looks of the brown but the brown parts crumble with age.
The center rear view mirror is a classic example. Just try to find a
brown one that isn't falling apart on the back side. The black ones show
no sign of this that I've seen.

Mark

Tim wrote:

>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............
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