Dash Repair Kit

I watched this video (it's only 2-minutes long) and decided I want to give repairing the dash in my Alfa a "go".

Unfortunately I found their description of their consumables to be very "vauge" (ie: what adhesive, what filler, etc).

Can someone who's done this before help me get the necessary materials together? Shipping out here takes a loooooong time and I'd really hate to miss something simple and have to wait twice

Thanks, -Bill

Well, Im not terribly familiar with the materials they used, but thanks for the link! I watched about a dozen of those clips...love em!!!

Yeah, I think I was looking up 5-point harness mounting which eventually led to "Holy crap! You can fix dash cracks?" click

Good times (and a good way to pass the hours at work)

-Bill

I've tried it. The results were awful.

I've seen it. The results were also awful. Not as bad as mine, so maybe I'm just special.

Won't say I haven't seen repairs I didn't detect. That would be the nature of a good repair. Just that any repair I did see, looked really bad. Worse than the unrepaired crack.

My dash has a bunch of cracks, so I will be watching this thread for people with more experience to show up. I did a bit of previous research into the subject, and another method is plastic soldering or 'welding.'

One of the challenges is that the soft foam dash boards have a graining to the vinyl cover. When you do the repair it is nearly impossible to reproduce the OE texture. That leaves you with making the entire dash smooth or to add a texture of your own to make it uniform. Flocking is one way.

Here's a how to for flocking a dash. It should make you all warm and fuzzy.

http://flockit.com/Flock%20Dashboard.pdf

Scott