mchristyuk
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Work on project "I must have been mad" 3200 continues apace..
My dash top was suffering from the dreaded wrinkles. Now I swear there was a guide on here about sorting it out but I couldn't find it anywhere.. plenty of topics on wrinkled airbags, but not the dash top. So for those that are interested...
1) Bit of trim and 8 screws and the dash top comes off dead easy. As you can see mine had a big horrible crease down the middle of it.
2) My leather had shrunk over the years so there was no way I could pull it back to it's original locations. Therefore I decided to pull it all up in the affected area. The main cause of my wrinkle was the foam backing had doubled over meaning I could never smooth it down.
3) I ripped out the foam padding and stuck the pieces back on sans-wrinkled section with liberal use of carpet glue
4) Finally I stuck it all back down with said glue.
Ok the end result is not concours factory original condition, it couldn't be without being retrimmed completely.. however for the princely sum of £0 I'm quite happy with the end result! Total time from start to finish was about 40 minutes.
Cheers
Mark
My dash top was suffering from the dreaded wrinkles. Now I swear there was a guide on here about sorting it out but I couldn't find it anywhere.. plenty of topics on wrinkled airbags, but not the dash top. So for those that are interested...
1) Bit of trim and 8 screws and the dash top comes off dead easy. As you can see mine had a big horrible crease down the middle of it.
2) My leather had shrunk over the years so there was no way I could pull it back to it's original locations. Therefore I decided to pull it all up in the affected area. The main cause of my wrinkle was the foam backing had doubled over meaning I could never smooth it down.
3) I ripped out the foam padding and stuck the pieces back on sans-wrinkled section with liberal use of carpet glue
4) Finally I stuck it all back down with said glue.
Ok the end result is not concours factory original condition, it couldn't be without being retrimmed completely.. however for the princely sum of £0 I'm quite happy with the end result! Total time from start to finish was about 40 minutes.
Cheers
Mark