I have a question about my upper dash pad on my 04 sunfire. I am redoing my whole dash sanding and painting, can that rubberish cover come off the upper dash pad to paint it instead of trying to sand it? I took the cover off of the center console lid and its a nice smooth plastic under it, is the upper dash pad the same way?
Yea it is, but it's not as easy to come off.
yup you can take it off... you need a 7mm socket .. and about 20 mins time haha .. alot fo screws ALOT!! take it from a CAVALIER guy !!
I don't think its all smooth and flat underneath the vinyl. If you are looking to get it smooth for painting you'll have to fiberglass it. I have 2 spare dashpads so I'll strip 1 down later and take some pics of it without the vinyl.
even if you remove the padding, your dash is going to look like @!#$. that rubber padding has a thickness to it and if you remove it your gonna have holes all around your dash because its not going to fit right.
my suggestion would be to use a vynal dye, and dye it. I did mine and it looks great. The pad is easy to come off though, like az24ncav said 7mm socket driver on roughly a dozen screws and it pops right out.
i already have the dash pad off the car my whole dash and center is outta my car right now i was just wondering if the padding game off like the padding on the center console lid
Is this the process that you see when someone has a real smooth and shiny dash pad instead of the contoured and crackled dash. I have vinyl dyed my dash on a previous J and will be getting another one soon. Just looking for the future.
ya i ripped one of a spare dash i got at the junkyard... gonna attempt to fiberglass it now... should be interesting... any tips?
patience is key and look and look some more when u lay it down for air bublles smooth them out as much as possible
im right now in the process of doing the rear deck lid to put in components
ya i did the rear deck lid already... i angled some 6.9s
