chinesekid

hahahaha... my bad.. i didnt mean to put it that way... i ment i wanted a different kinda red... lol.. my bad... my dash is cracked in like 5 different placese... what can i do to fix it? or if i just gotta get a new one?

Skully

my interior is all black....dash has a crack above speedo but i will cover up the uglyness...seats out of a 300zx TT leather black, i painted the rest....headliner and door skins are black (i did them myself) you can see in cardomain...i like it

chinesekid

quick question.... for the dash... when you take it out and replace it... is it the whole thing w/ the meddle housing or is it just the dash?.. i took apart my dash yesterday and its w/ the whole houseing and wondering if i need it still if imma replace it

jfairladyz

If you're going to replace the whole dash then you dont need the metal frame. It's easier to just swap the dash and frame as an entire assembly. It's only like 7-8 bolts when you do it that way.

chinesekid

quick question... where should the metter read for the temp on the gages?? i started my car up for like 20 mins.. and it was like 3/4 high or a little bit higher... im guessing thats too high still but as you all know i just got my car a few weeks ago.. and it was really high but then i flush out the coolant because the car was sitting there for the pass year or two.. and now its 3/4+ on the gages... what should i check for?

icice9

you might have an over heating problem.. you might wanna change your thermostat cuz your gauge shouldnt even go past the middle..

lww

Definitely change the thermostat and get a Nissan one. The cheap crap from the auto parts store is questionable at best and a real Nissan one is like $10.

Go to black. It just looks damn good. Of course, I didn't realize I was following in Rod's footsteps when I went black w/red trim on my interior!

I also have red trim on my engine bay with 350Z Pike's Peak white exterior paint.

Of course, there's not much red in it right now...

Heat Rave R

Man, I didn't realize how many others also had a red/black interior. I changed the interior of my old NA to be all red (except the black seats). But since my turbo's original interior was black and in good condition, I'm leaving most of it black but just changing the carpet to red (though I guess it's not really the "trim" that's red in that case).

lww

lemming!

chinesekid

in catalog and stuff i see dash that say "dashboard cover caps" or something like that.. i dont know really know what that is but it looks like another dash that covers your org one... and how does that work?? wouldnt it look werid like think and it wouldnt line up rite or?? somebody get at me about it

jfairladyz

According to another member (Bleach I think it was) the dash caps actually fit and look good.

You are correct in assuming that it is simply a plastic cover that goes over your original dash to cover any cracks or other damage or fading.

chinesekid

something to cover like small cracks?? or it doesnt matter.. becasuse my cracks are kinda big..

jfairladyz

It doesn't matter what size the cracks are. But if the distortion of your dash is too bad then the cap may have a tough time fitting over and holding it's shape. My previous dash was really bad. It had large splits all the way down and was so bad that it couldn't even hold it's shape. It had bulges and things like that. My newer dash has a couple of small cracks but the dash isn't distorted at all. So a cap would fit right on it. I'm sure distortion has a big part to do with why these things dont always fit right

Heat Rave R

If there's distortions where the edges of a crack begin curling upwards, you can always dremel them flat.

chinesekid

ill take a pic of the dash and uploaded and have you guys see if it will work or not

lww

I have a cap on my 240z dash. The two cracks are of moderate size and I only got a 'half' cap. They are polymer plastic and really do cover and look decent. I've had a few people drop their jaws when they see it thinking it's an original uncracked dash, but on closer examination, it's just a plastic cap. It'll get me through until I get my 'spare' dash back from restoration.

jfairladyz

Yeah see mine was so bad that when I removed it and then tried to put it back in I couldn't get to go back properly cause it was so far gone. I mean it wasn't just cracks. It had splits that ran from the front all the way back. Basically the padding part of the dash was in several pieces. Some of the cracks were up to 2" wide (and I'm not talking long here. Length was front to back). It was horrible.

chinesekid

are those crack to big for the cap to fit on top and make it clean?

icice9

no crack is too big... i had bigger cracks on my dash.. i just used and exacto blade to cut off the high spots and glued the cap on...

jfairladyz

Yeah those are fine. I could fit my whole hand down in between some of my cracks