My simple 84, it has a painted dash.   Love it!  I stick notes on it with
magnets, wipe it with anything...no vinyl to sun-rot or tear....

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>
wrote:

> All it takes is money: http://justdashes.com/
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Marc Perdue
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 9:29 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Dash improvement?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I should be getting my van back from the painter next week and I've been
> thinking of all those parts that are going to look so drab against the new
> paint. The dash is, of course, the biggest and most visible. Does anybody
> know a way to get the dash to look like new again, and to hopefully stay
> that way for a while? I'm not really interested in that high-gloss
> Armor-All look . . .
>
> The funny thing is, I was thinking about this and wondered if anybody had
> ever put liquid shoe polish on their dash? Would this work, or be bad for
> the dash? My gut's telling me that it should go the way of all crazy ideas,
> but I just don't know what the dash material is and what chemicals could
> hurt it or not. Oh, I also want to treat the instrument panel cover.
>
> Open to ideas . . .
>
> Thanks,
> Marc Perdue, in central VA
>