Dasboard Wooden panel
Discussion
Hi, I´ve got a Tasmin S1 2.8i 1982 as well, but an LHD. I want to take the dashboard off for changing an instrument and repairing some contacts. I found so far only 2 screws and bolds behind the dash, around the steering wheel. Where are the two other once? Near the glove box? Does anybody has pics or a drawing to understand a little better? Thanks for helping... Matt
Wedg1e said:
Yep, that's the early variety, where the dash panel is made from a slab of plywood, covered in real walnut 
There are studs, as you say, screwed into the wood, that pass through the steel back panel and have Nyloc nuts IIRC, just to make it even more fun to get them off
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It's extremely difficult to get your hand up to where the nuts are; you really need to drop the steering column or remove the whole dash from the firewall.
I imagine the change to Formica on steel was a cost-cutting exercise as even simple parts are labour-intensive to veneer the proper way.
Incidentally, on my Tasmin, all the veneered panels (dash, glovebox lid, door pulls) had matching numbers stamped into them, presumably so that when they got to the TVR factory they'd be kept together as a set to maintain shade and figuring of the grain.
I had a cabinet maker look at the cracking on my Tasmin's dash and he said it looked like it was lacquered with proper old-fashioned Shellac, about 2-3mm thick... that's what gives the deep shine that's hard to reproduce with modern lacquers. Or so I'm told. Wood-bothering was never my thing
There are studs, as you say, screwed into the wood, that pass through the steel back panel and have Nyloc nuts IIRC, just to make it even more fun to get them off
.It's extremely difficult to get your hand up to where the nuts are; you really need to drop the steering column or remove the whole dash from the firewall.
I imagine the change to Formica on steel was a cost-cutting exercise as even simple parts are labour-intensive to veneer the proper way.
Incidentally, on my Tasmin, all the veneered panels (dash, glovebox lid, door pulls) had matching numbers stamped into them, presumably so that when they got to the TVR factory they'd be kept together as a set to maintain shade and figuring of the grain.
I had a cabinet maker look at the cracking on my Tasmin's dash and he said it looked like it was lacquered with proper old-fashioned Shellac, about 2-3mm thick... that's what gives the deep shine that's hard to reproduce with modern lacquers. Or so I'm told. Wood-bothering was never my thing
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