Replacing wood veneer dash

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

The wood veneer dash on my '99 450 is cracking badly, to the extent that I think sections of it will start to fall out soon.

I'm looking to replace like for like, so I want a replacement wooden dash. Not really interested in other alternatives; I personally think the wood veneer suits the car best.

A search has revealed London Carriage Craft, but their web site isn't working. I wonder if they no longer exist?

So, can anyone recommend someone who can supply and fit a wood veneer dash that looks similar to the original? Probably not looking to DIY this because it'll look st if I do it!

Any ideas what sort of cost I'm looking at?

[mash]

You could DIY, Mr China shows us how in the link below, try from 11.20 onwards. Sorry for the dubbed version, couldn't find the original, Discovery channel and copyright infringement...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4wwjiDE9WM

[Mr Haribo]

Or try Classical dash in the High Wycombe area Ian Bond is the main contact he did my wedge 15 years ago and it is still stuck on with no cracking ! im going to get him to do the chimaera......

[shake n bake]

Take it to your local dealer and pay for the job to be done, that's your easiest option. They'll source the parts and carry out the work.

[pbaker43]

Classical dash in the High Wycombe I did an exchange for my dash, the car has spent 1 year with the dash in the heat and sun of France and no cracking. Ian did point out that the dash will crack in the future but it depends on the amount of heat and light it is exposed to, but his method of laying the veneer on the metal does allow for the rapid expansion of the metal backing..

[pbaker43]

Classical dash in the High Wycombe I did an exchange for my dash, the car has spent 1 year with the dash in the heat and sun of France and no cracking. Ian did point out that the dash will crack in the future but it depends on the amount of heat and light it is exposed to, but his method of laying the veneer on the metal does allow for the rapid expansion of the metal backing..

[Pupp]

Good luck with that. I like the walnut dash and would have loved to have kept mine but two radio panels in 3 years plus a car that lives outside means I plumped for stainless when mine went flaky. I wondered whether veneer on a marine ply backing might be a better bet but never got round to trying it (the work in stripping out and rebuilding means I only want to do it once, although it's not that difficult really).

[Andav469]

TVR Mads, £240 delivered for upper and lower panels, excellent high quality

[toon tvr]

TVR MADS are excellent quality got one last May £250.

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

Do TVR MADS do fitting as well? As I said, not really interested in DIY on this job.

[toon tvr]

Sorry no they don't, I think James only sell TVR's and uses local TVR specialists for servicing.

[pb450]

Sussex TVR did mine about 2 years ago. Good job.

[Oldred_V8S]

mash said:

You could DIY, Mr China shows us how in the link below, try from 11.20 onwards. Sorry for the dubbed version, couldn't find the original, Discovery channel and copyright infringement...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4wwjiDE9WM

Found another version (undubbed)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x119kol_jaguar-xj...