Smoothing out a dash??

[pokertramp]

I was wondering if anyone would know if a dash could be smoothed out with say, body filler? I am changing the whole look of my interior and hat the fake stitching on it along with the fake wood and such.

Can it be done?

Otherwise my other 2 options is make a custom dash out of fiberglass or cover the existing dash in tweed or some other kind of material.

Thoughts?

 

[Doober]

Since the stock dash is flexible I'd advise against using filler on it, it will probably crack. Instead you could make a fiberglass overlay for the dash and do it that way.

 

[pokertramp]

Sounds like that is what I will be doing. I found tweed material online and at $13 a yard, that's not too bad. 54 inch width they come in and they also have orange so now I can go 2 tone, with black.

I will probably do like you said and make an overlay then sew up some tweed and glue it on.

 

[Doober]

Yeah, I've considered tweed myself, but since they make just about every interior piece for the Monte/Malibu now I'll probably just eat the $ and buy a repro dash. Plus I've decided to go black, so anything I may already have could be dyed fairly easily.

 

[pokertramp]

That's the good thing about your car, easy to find parts.

For some reason I hate the look of vinyl and leather. I used to have a 1984 Fiero and it had tan interior. I spent a weekend changing it from a sunroof car to a non sunroof car from a donor, pretty easy I might add. I had to make a headliner so I went to the fabric store and got some Black and Yellow felt and did the whole interior with that. It wasn't perfect but looked pretty good for under $100.

Tweed will be a better material so it should come out better than that.