Instrument surround

[otp]

My wooden instrument surround is cracked at the bottom has anyone replaced them with anything other than standard. I'm not a big fan of the wooden bits I think they date the car.

Clive

[N7GTX]

This seems popular. They do matching accessories too.

http://www.leventechnology.co.uk/products/cerbera-...

[Incognegro]

otp said:

My wooden instrument surround is cracked at the bottom has anyone replaced them with anything other than standard. I'm not a big fan of the wooden bits I think they date the car.

Clive

Hi mate,

I recently did this to mine: My wood had cracked so I had them removed by Central TVR. I then stripped down to bare aluminium. Once I prepped the surface I then vinyl wrapped in genuine look gloss carbon fibre.

Now they are back in the car and everything looks fab!

[Zeemax_Mini]

Incognegro said:

I recently did this to mine: My wood had cracked so I had them removed by Central TVR. I then stripped down to bare aluminium. Once I prepped the surface I then vinyl wrapped in genuine look gloss carbon fibre.

I saw your posts in the other thread, but do you have any more of the process or of them actually fitted? How hard was it to get the wood veneer off the aluminium? Really think it looks great, and I assume very cheap to do!

Cheers,

Dom

[Incognegro]

Hi, thanks for your thoughts. Not as cheap as one would think as I know the material very well and at £100per metre square one might think expensive? I had the extra over from wrapping some Tuscan seatbacks so it made perfect sense.

The prep time can be a drag as a scalpel/heat gun, wet and dry etc is needed ... And lots of time! Once stripped and cleaned thoroughly they are ready to wrap. I'm a former vinyl wrapper so was no agro. I can see the switch panel being the most headache as controls were removed and re soldered onto the new panel by central TVR (leave that to pros)

I'll take some pics with them in and post soon, really need flash as TBH when behind the wheel etc making out the weave is harder than you may think (from driver seat anyway)

[otp]

That wrap looks good sounds like a lot of work ! I guess once it's back to the backing the world is your oyster. Wrap paint or polish it (maybe a bit shiney)
How does that bit come out probably wouldn't do the heater controls as they are too small to really notice the finish but perhaps the upper and lower instruments could match

[FarmyardPants]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...


Difficult to remove because the oil pressure/water temp gauge has the capillary tube permanently attached, so you have to thread it through the bulkhead from the engine bay.

It would make sense to have the gauge with a clip-on bezel so that it could fit through the hole in the dash (maybe also make the dash hole larger to help).

[Incognegro]

Zeemax_Mini said:

I saw your posts in the other thread, but do you have any more of the process or of them actually fitted? How hard was it to get the wood veneer off the aluminium? Really think it looks great, and I assume very cheap to do!

Cheers,

Dom

Here are some more pics (taken in garage on iphone) as you can see the effect can be lost in the darkness but knowing it's there and when you do catch it always makes a smile.