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Just has Wols done by London Carriage Craft as part of a general spruce-up.
Best part of £300 fitted but the result is superb. They did the heater panel some years back, that showed up how poor the original was, and the new dash is a perfect match for the heater panel.
Well happy bunny, me.
Best part of £300 fitted but the result is superb. They did the heater panel some years back, that showed up how poor the original was, and the new dash is a perfect match for the heater panel.
Well happy bunny, me.
Be interested to know where you got a dash done for £150 EGB
Mine is one the utility side now after I removed the clocks and fittings tonight ready for it to go for veneering.
I've got a price of £225 fro classical-dash
Burr walnut the concensus then?
I like it but like the OP I'm curious about alternatives.
I can say painting the dash kind of works but isn't much loved. Colour is important and if you can get it properly coded with the car i guess it would look best. But getting a decent finish is a bugger and it chips easily when you re-fit the clocks, especially if you have recessed pre-cat type clocks.
Mine is one the utility side now after I removed the clocks and fittings tonight ready for it to go for veneering.
I've got a price of £225 fro classical-dash
Burr walnut the concensus then?
I like it but like the OP I'm curious about alternatives.
I can say painting the dash kind of works but isn't much loved. Colour is important and if you can get it properly coded with the car i guess it would look best. But getting a decent finish is a bugger and it chips easily when you re-fit the clocks, especially if you have recessed pre-cat type clocks.
from memory I paid circa £450 to have it all done by a garage ..... basically I dropped car off with knackered dash, and picked it up all done a few weeks latter... with new carpets and roof as well 
this was in reaction to the now ex missus wanting to go on holiday somewhere and me not wanting to go she wan't impressed as she didn't get the Barbados 
this was in reaction to the now ex missus wanting to go on holiday somewhere and me not wanting to go
she wan't impressed as she didn't get the Barbados I'm halfway through a 'Blue Peter' re-finishing of my dash. It would have been finished last weekend but I had to go to work and won't be back until the end of the month.
I used this stuff - linky - and for the money and effort involved I reckon it's really good!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261075434816?ssPageName=...
I used this stuff - linky - and for the money and effort involved I reckon it's really good!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261075434816?ssPageName=...
Barreti said:
Be interested to know where you got a dash done for £150 EGB
Mine is one the utility side now after I removed the clocks and fittings tonight ready for it to go for veneering.
I've got a price of £225 fro classical-dash
Burr walnut the concensus then?
I like it but like the OP I'm curious about alternatives.
I can say painting the dash kind of works but isn't much loved. Colour is important and if you can get it properly coded with the car i guess it would look best. But getting a decent finish is a bugger and it chips easily when you re-fit the clocks, especially if you have recessed pre-cat type clocks.
Ian, there was a guy who supplied a reveneered Griff/Chim dash in exchange for old one. Fitting to be done by the owner. Unfortunately, it seems he has now disappeared.Mine is one the utility side now after I removed the clocks and fittings tonight ready for it to go for veneering.
I've got a price of £225 fro classical-dash
Burr walnut the concensus then?
I like it but like the OP I'm curious about alternatives.
I can say painting the dash kind of works but isn't much loved. Colour is important and if you can get it properly coded with the car i guess it would look best. But getting a decent finish is a bugger and it chips easily when you re-fit the clocks, especially if you have recessed pre-cat type clocks.
For a DIY job this Burr Walnut link may be useful.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Edited by EGB on Tuesday 19th February 09:30
TVR MADS use to do just the dash at circa £150; or dash and heater panel at £240. (Prices included VAT and p&p.) Your local TVR indy would charge 3-4 hours to change them over.
When we first started doing them we were doing 6-8 a month, but the last year or so interest just died and we've stopped. We have a half dozen '96 onwards backing plates in stock, so sorry to sound like an advert, if there was five-six people interest, we'd do another batch in time for the Cobweb Run or Chatsowrth.
When we first started doing them we were doing 6-8 a month, but the last year or so interest just died and we've stopped. We have a half dozen '96 onwards backing plates in stock, so sorry to sound like an advert, if there was five-six people interest, we'd do another batch in time for the Cobweb Run or Chatsowrth.
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