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 > |
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