Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:35:49 -0800
Reply-To: Eric Wunrow <VW@ERICWUNROW.COM>
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From: Eric Wunrow <VW@ERICWUNROW.COM>
Subject: Re: Dash improvement?
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Mine, too, brown-painted steel with "crash pads" on the rearward side.
('84 Westy)
Eric
Eric Wunrow Pictures
85 S Union Blvd, #Q123
Lakewood, CO 80228
303. 988. 8717
VW@EricWunrow.com
On Nov 17, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> My dash has about an inch or two of bumper stuff on the edge..The rest is
> metal.
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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