Where did you get that, or did you remove the padded dash cover?  Padded dashes have been required in the US since at least the ‘70s.

 

Stuart

 

From: Don Hanson [mailto:dhanson928@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 9:49 AM
To: Stuart MacMillan
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Dash improvement?

 

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