I read a thread a while back (back in the club days) about using bondo to fill cracks in the dash and suck.

For my dash, I'm just capping it. However, my targa pad is cracked, and I was thinking about this as an alternative. Does anyone have experience with it?

My guess would be to cut away the bad material and fill with filler in stages. What would then be used to paint or stain everything black again? Do I want to "seal" the crack with epoxy or some such first? How would I keep the foam and vynal to keep from pulling away from the body filler over time, creating a new, bigger crack?

Zach

I've used firm black seam sealer with good results.

I used the flexible bumper filler on my dash but it was then covered afterwards

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Paul

Hey, thats an idea. I have a lot of that left over too....

Zach

Zach, I've used a vinyl repair kit for my 911 dash. You work some of the goop down into the crack, cover w/ a matching texture pad, then add heat. Voila, almost indistinguishable. Its flexible too so should survive a little longer. If the crack is deep, you might want to fill w/ foam first.

The foam is some polyeurethane blend.
If you can find a foam place (foamation.com) you can buy the two part foam, make a mold out of aluminum foil to contain it and pour new foam in the cleaned out crack.

the new foam will heat up the old foam and bond with it, then use the vinyl repair kit (if that is the route you are taking)

I would suspect that anything firm like bondo would fall out over time.

Rich

I just used Bondo's bumper repair kit to fix the targa seal on the 73. Actually really nice to use. The seal had 2 4" long flaps that were sticking straight up. The bumper repair kit comes in a 2 cylinder epoxy syringe. Just mix up and apply lightly, then sand it down to match. Two or three applications and now you can hardly tell that the tears were there. Fairly flexible, so I am confident it will last a while. We will see.

I used 5 minute epoxy on a bunch of cracks, then painted it with vinyl paint to match. Looks good and hasn't re-cracked yet.

Keyston Brothers makes a filler product:
http://www.keystonbros.com/markets.html#miscanch
You can call them to ask.