Best $6 I ever spent.

Been fixing up the old girl. First door panels, now the dash. My dash was purple... horrendous purple... didn’t match anything. So this evening, I pulled it out of the truck. I noticed that someone wrapped the dash in fleece, then spray painted it purple. There was no foam on this dash, someone took all the foam out and put a thin layer of padding, then purple fleece over top. Seeing this, I felt hopeless because there was no pad for me to fix the vinyl on and repaint, but I and went to Walmart for inspiration. I found a stretchy low profile Swede for a little less than $6 a yard that I really liked the color of. I ended up wrapping it very, very tight overtop of the purple since it was still in good shape, just some wrinkles and UGLY.

Best $6 I’ve ever spent.... I bought some glue sticks to have on hand, as well as some extra material for future projects, but the material to recover was about $6 for this project and a handful of glue sticks.

Before...


Wrapped it over the edge and used Gorilla hot glue.


Now I got all the fabric stretched. Now time for the cutouts.

That looks really good

Yeah, looks real good! nice job

Superb job.

Way to jury rig, even though that is leaps beyond a typical jury rig !

Looks good, fantastic price point , and very creative.

My lazy ass probably would have spray painted over the purple.

$6 for a dash pad cover! I know where I'm sending my dash pad to for recovering now.

Awesome work.

That came out really nice!

That looks awesome

Good job and very creative.

That turned out very well.
Way to go!

GOOD JOB. Coming from previous experience, you may want to use a glue that will hold up to higher heat, 3M Super77 has done well for me in the past. Hopefully, it will hold up for a long time though!

Holy cow, that looks great! Great idea!

Thanks for all the comments!

I actually did hit areas with superglue haha, thanks for the idea of going with something a bit stronger!

tried to get it in the truck and the added thickness made it a little tough to get in, but I got it in. Truck is outside and the light is not good. Still have to square up the dash bezel and get the last couple screws in. I need to do carpet next, I am thinking a light tan.

I was at Walmart tonight and forgot to look for this stuff. Did they have it in other colors, or just tan?

79dentside said:

Thanks for all the comments!

I actually did hit areas with superglue haha, thanks for the idea of going with something a bit stronger!

tried to get it in the truck and the added thickness made it a little tough to get in, but I got it in. Truck is outside and the light is not good. Still have to square up the dash bezel and get the last couple screws in. I need to do carpet next, I am thinking a light tan.

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How much fabric did you buy? And i think the same tan or a bit darker would look great in carpet