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Oval dashboard recover

If youd rung me Id have said: take the seats out, you spaz!

Id also have suggested using a large bag of cable ties to tidy everything up as it comes out, and you know where it came from, making re-fitting easier. I have spent FAR too long upside-down, with my head in the footwell and my legs sticking out of the sunroof, to ever remove a dash on a series two car again without removing the seats...

You can also give it a damned good vacuuming.

 
Take the seats out? Are you crazy? - where would I sit whilst I'm unfastening all those screws !!!

Half the wires you can see where put in by me so I know very well where they all go (when I made a new loom to reposition the window and mirror controls in the centre console I did lots of rationalisation) - I took lots of pics of the other stuff for reference too. This isn't the first time I've had the dash out on this car so the wiring is pretty well ordered.

 
You sit on the freshly vacuumed carpet. [:D]

It becomes a lot easier after you've done it a couple of times. Id still prefer to do a series one car though.

 
I'm sure that a trimmer would take the job on for £100-odd or so. Took me a couple of hours and I wouldn't say it was out of the bounds of a semi-competent DIY-er.

On the off chance you're North Easterly I'd do it but wouldn't really want to take on the liability that charging a fee brings.
 
All back together - for now.

I've taken the boost controller unit apart, the silver stood out too much so I've masked up the cover and primed it ready to paint it Matt Black. I've also ordered some more carbon fibre sheet as I'm going to recess the unit rather than having it stuck on.
The silver oil temp gauge's days are numbered too ;)
 
Fantastic job Sir - many thanks for sharing. Was wondering where you'd got the carbon fibre arm rest from?.... think that would look good on mine as I've covered the centre console with CF vinyl.
 
A company called CFAC in the states:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/172084894726

I've mentioned it before now, it's a cover that goes over the existing armrest and I was the sole bidder late one Friday night after (several) beers. I'd be tempted to get a carbon fibre kit from CarbonMods if I were to do it again and do it myself for half the money and a slightly more compact end result too.
 
Just done my original dashboard in black leather for a mate, will be swapping it with his dash when I fit this one for him in a couple of weeks. The glue was still wet when I took the picture hence a couple of bits that look slightly uneven but aren't:


 
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