Dash Pad Recovering Options

[puffinator]

Has anyone used "Just Dashes" to recover a dash pad? If so, can you provide an opinion. Quality of work and match of material to stock.

Has anyone used anyone else?

[veekry9]

Sure,the production tooling of the method Porsche used back then was state of the art.
The puffiness you refer to is the perception of the part's radii.
The tool used was chemically etched with acid to remove material from the mold surface.
Likely a silkscreen technique rather than a photographic method.
Anyone with automotive trim experience would know that.
It is a very nice result and the ashtray delete option is convenient.
Again,labour intensive.

[Mikey914]

Sure,the production tooling of the method Porsche used back then was state of the art.
The puffiness you refer to is the perception of the part's radii.
The tool used was chemically etched with acid to remove material from the mold surface.
Likely a silkscreen technique rather than a photographic method.
Anyone with automotive trim experience would know that.
It is a very nice result and the ashtray delete option is convenient.
Again,labour intensive.

These are 2 different techniques. Porsche made the dashes by forming the vinyl into the mold, then inserting a substructure into the top of the mold, closing it and injecting high density foam into the cavity.

Ask me how I know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Just Dashes take the core, grinds down the vinyl, applies a thermally activated glue and forms the vinyl over a thin pad to take up imperfections. Yes, it will have some give unlike the OEM, and as you stretch the vinyl the pattern will elongate. But short of a large custom tool it's a good down and dirty way to reuse the core, you just have to play with the sag in the inst cluster to to make it not sag. Very labor intensive, inexpensive to set up (relatively so).