Rather pleased with these.

[Ceejay73]

Collected these today after having them refinished.













Now I can get the flaming interior back in.

Edited by Ceejay73 on Thursday 19th May 10:15

[v8s4me]

Very nice. Who did the work?

[GreenV8S]

Mighty pretty.

While you have these out, I remember that somebody was asking for the exact dimensions of the holes for the gauges recently - something to do with replacing the bezels I think.

[fozzy280472]

Very very nice , can I ask did you take any material off the edges prior to refinishing ,as I have read this can help make refitting a lot easier .
I will be doing my dash come winter and the car is sorned .
Cheers
Paul.

[Ceejay73]

Thanks chaps.

v8s4me - They were done by none of the usual suspects because they are not veneered. In my opinion glueing two materials which are going to respond vastly differently to thermal and atmospheric conditions is doomed to fail, as mine did, resulting in cracking and peeling. It is also quite expensive, this wasn't.
I decided to take a chance and try having them hydro dipped/water transfer printed. As this method is used for three dimensional objects it means that the door card trims match the dash fascia and switch panel properly, (they were originally hand painted).
In answer to your question, they were done by Monkeyfinger Custom Paint of Knottingley. The guys there were really good and put a lot of effort into getting the colouring and tones as I wanted them.

GreenV8S - Yeah, thanks, I am aware and will wave the vernier at them before refitting.

fozzy280472 - No I didn't take any material off. It was a pig to get out and no doubt will be the same to put back. I did consider it but decided that, it fit before and it came out so it will go back.

Cheers,
Carl.

Edited by Ceejay73 on Thursday 19th May 10:20

[Oldred_V8S]

Ceejay73 said:

Thanks chaps.

v8s4me - They were done by none of the usual suspects because they are not veneered. In my opinion glueing two materials which are going to respond vastly differently to thermal and atmospheric conditions is doomed to fail, as mine did, resulting in cracking and peeling. It is also quite expensive, this wasn't.
I decided to take a chance and try having them hydro dipped/water transfer printed. As this method is used for three dimensional objects it means that the door card trims match the dash fascia and switch panel properly, (they were originally hand painted).
In answer to your question, they were done by Monkeyfinger Custom Paint of Knottingley. The guys there were really good and put a lot of effort into getting the colouring and tones as I wanted them.

GreenV8S - Yeah, thanks, I am aware and will wave the vernier at them before refitting.

fozzy280472 - No I didn't take any material off. It was a pig to get out and no doubt will be the same to put back. I did consider it but decided that, it fit before and it came out so it will go back.

Cheers,
Carl.

Edited by Ceejay73 on Thursday 19th May 10:20

They look fantastic. Do you recall what colour/tones they used? THis looks to match mine. I need to get mine done, they are perfect apart from having cracked in one place after we parked in 37 degree heat in Germany.

[glenrobbo]

Oldred_V8S said:

I need to get mine done, they are perfect apart from having cracked in one place after we parked in 37 degree heat in Germany.

Paul, how come you managed to find somewhere that nice & cool to park in?

I'm sure the temperature at Rastatt was around 45 degrees ( or around Gas Mark 8 ).

[Oldred_V8S]

glenrobbo said:

Oldred_V8S said:

I need to get mine done, they are perfect apart from having cracked in one place after we parked in 37 degree heat in Germany.

Paul, how come you managed to find somewhere that nice & cool to park in?

I'm sure the temperature at Rastatt was around 45 degrees ( or around Gas Mark 8 ).

I don't think I have cooled down yet
I bet we don't have that problem next week.

[Ceejay73]

Oldred_V8S said:

They look fantastic. Do you recall what colour/tones they used? THis looks to match mine. I need to get mine done, they are perfect apart from having cracked in one place after we parked in 37 degree heat in Germany.

There are many different films out there from different suppliers, I spent hours looking at different walnut patterns, ( I think I may have gone just a little strange ).
In the end I selected a film from Hugas Ltd. I am fairly sure it was Walnut Brown V2 50.
The film was applied over a white basecoat.
It was then given a light coat of candy copper in order to achieve the rich red tones that I wanted.
Finally lacquered, flatted and polished.

[Oldred_V8S]

Ceejay73 said:

Oldred_V8S said:

They look fantastic. Do you recall what colour/tones they used? THis looks to match mine. I need to get mine done, they are perfect apart from having cracked in one place after we parked in 37 degree heat in Germany.

There are many different films out there from different suppliers, I spent hours looking at different walnut patterns, ( I think I may have gone just a little strange ).
In the end I selected a film from Hugas Ltd. I am fairly sure it was Walnut Brown V2 50.
The film was applied over a white basecoat.
It was then given a light coat of candy copper in order to achieve the rich red tones that I wanted.
Finally lacquered, flatted and polished.

Thanks for that. I take it you removed the old veneer for them.

[Scoobimax]

I understand the veneer dash on my new V8 have been hydro dipped and the finish is excellent - I'll try and post a pic of them in situ and my view is the expansion / contraction issues will be eradicated too.

[v8s4me]

fozzy280472 said:

.... did you take any material off the edges prior to refinishing ,as I have read this can help make refitting a lot easier .....

I would strongly recommend doing this. It made re-fitting mine so much easier and avoided the risk of chipping the edge of the veneer when putting the dash panel back into the moulding.

[Ceejay73]

Oldred_V8S said:

Thanks for that. I take it you removed the old veneer for them.

I did, most of it was cracked and peeling already. The parts that were still bonded were not too difficult to remove with a wall paper scraper.

[V8S]

Hi!

Do you mind me asking what the rough cost was for the full service?

[Ceejay73]

V8S said:

Hi!

Do you mind me asking what the rough cost was for the full service?

Not at all. £130, think they wished they had charged a little more but even if they had it is still a lot cheaper than veneering.

Cheers,
Carl.