Leather Dashboard?
Discussion
Has anyone seen or installed a leather dash, like you get in Pilgrim Cobra's, as a replacement for a peeling veneer one!
Using it as an everyday car for 12 months now has had a serious effect on it and since a lovely trip to Exmoor last weekend has cracked in a number of places.
Also I had the splitter ripped off by a new bollard at football recently...is it worth putting it back on??
Cheers
Nick
Using it as an everyday car for 12 months now has had a serious effect on it and since a lovely trip to Exmoor last weekend has cracked in a number of places.
Also I had the splitter ripped off by a new bollard at football recently...is it worth putting it back on??
Cheers
Nick
Has anyone seen or installed a leather dash, like you get in Pilgrim Cobra's, as a replacement for a peeling veneer one!
Using it as an everyday car for 12 months now has had a serious effect on it and since a lovely trip to Exmoor last weekend has cracked in a number of places.
Also I had the splitter ripped off by a new bollard at football recently...is it worth putting it back on??
Cheers
Nick
hi nick,
had my front splitter ripped off in a towing incident recently and only cost about £40 all in to put back on and it does help stabilise high speed driving (apparently)
also i have had same probs with dashboard as i drive on london's crappy roads and it is cracking all over the place, can u keep me informed on any developments.
cheers
jody
Sounds like an excellent approach. Others I have investigated are spun aluminium sheet and carbon fibre style sheet. As you may guess my walnut looks like a particularly creative bit of crazy paving.
However if you like the wood look just using GOOD quality veneer as a replacement would last a lot longer than the factory applied wood effect tissue paper.
One thing to check out though is the dashboard section in the SH bible - it looks like one nasty job!
Keep us informed on progress.
However if you like the wood look just using GOOD quality veneer as a replacement would last a lot longer than the factory applied wood effect tissue paper.
One thing to check out though is the dashboard section in the SH bible - it looks like one nasty job!
Keep us informed on progress.
I think you'll find most people dont have there splitter on once its been ripped of a few times.
Dont think it actually makes much of difference from what most people say.
As for Dash boards see my profile on my Griffith as made my own out of Carbon Fibre in about a week, at a quater of the cost as companys are charging.
BB
Dont think it actually makes much of difference from what most people say.
As for Dash boards see my profile on my Griffith as made my own out of Carbon Fibre in about a week, at a quater of the cost as companys are charging.
BB
I’m a splitter fan, It makes a difference to the cooling, no bad thing now the warmer weather is coming, by reducing the speed at which ram air cooling takes effect. That is, without a splitter you need to be at motorway speeds but with one any steady speed just above 40 seams to have an effect.
Not sure about high speed stability, but if its disrupting air flow under the car, which it must be to change the cooling, then its highly likely it dose have some effect on this also.
Cheers,
Simon.
Not sure about high speed stability, but if its disrupting air flow under the car, which it must be to change the cooling, then its highly likely it dose have some effect on this also.
Cheers,
Simon.
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