How do you repair a dash

[Bullitt-]

.....new guy to this board.....I bought a 70 cuda, beautiful except that someone put a cap on the dash and it doesn't fit right where the guage panel meets the dash on the right hand side...leaves a good 1/2 inch gap...any ideas on what I can do?   I though making a molding or puting a tach in the space......I wouldl appreciate ANY help you guys can offer....

HI grinder, Welcome To CC.C  . I have never heard of the dash cap having issues in this area, some people report that the defrost duct area does not work well and many do not prefer the hard plastic feal. Have you considered getting a refinished dash pad? A little pricey at around $600. but if the Cuda is nice and you have it in your budget it would probably be worth it in the long haul.  Go to the Newbie section & introduce yourself & post some pictures of the car.

[mrcuda]

For the guys with the restored  original dashes, how did you reattach the vin?

[Kapteenikosmos]

I'm doing a very experimental work with my dash pad which was badly cracked from several places and the whole top side was wery brittle. I've started with thin layer of fiberglass on the areas where the old vinyl is brittle and also filled up the cracks and other imperfections with the same stuff (ok, actually my gf is doing that job. I'm playing with the welder  ). After we get it sanded smooth and the shape right we will wrap a new vinyl over it with contact glue (already got the thin vinyl and the glue. Glue is supposed to withstand temperatures up to 92 celcius). Ofcourse it isn't soft anymore from the places where the fiberglass is but with the real vinyl over the fiberglass it should feel much more original than those plastic caps and yet be much more cheaper than redone with ultimate dashes etc (if you don't count a hourly salary for your own work  ).

This might end up in  but I decided to try atleast. I'll get one of those plastics pads if I can't get the vinyl stretched good enough over the original shape. I'm going to post some pics on my restopage here when I have time to update it.

Anyone ever done something similar?