# Fixing vinyl dash

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/fixing-vinyl-dash/19624>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [September 16, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fixing-vinyl-dash/19624 "2008-09-16T00:53:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JackMcCullough](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@JackMcCullough](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JackMcCullough)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fixing-vinyl-dash/19624/1 "2008-09-16T00:53:47Z")

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My wife is about to buy a used car in good shape except that there are a few cracks or tears in the vinyl dash board. What’s the best way to fix that?  
  
  
  
 TIA

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**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fixing-vinyl-dash/19624/2 "2008-09-16T00:57:17Z")

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Replacement is easiest. But that depends on the vehicle.

Tester

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**Author:** ![stronzo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/stronzo/32/132_2.png) [@stronzo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/stronzo)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fixing-vinyl-dash/19624/3 "2008-09-16T02:12:14Z")

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Eastwood sells a kit. Most of their products are pretty good, they’re popular with the resto crowd.  
Here’s a link: [http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=2016&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=dashboard](http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=2016&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=dashboard)

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**Author:** ![edb1961](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/edb1961/32/122_2.png) [@edb1961](https://community.cartalk.com/u/edb1961)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fixing-vinyl-dash/19624/4 "2008-09-16T03:30:12Z")

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You have a couple of options.

1. Replacement - I spent two years looking for a dash pad for my 93 Caprice. By the time the dash started to crack, most of the surface was brittle and beyond repair. One quote from the internet was $300 plus $150 for shipping for a non-matching pad. I found a matching one in a local junkyard for $15.

2. Before I found a replacement, I used a Dashmat to cover the old dash. It’s a piece of carpet molded to the shape of the dash pad. Now it protects the replacement dash pad.

[http://www.godashmat.com/dashmats.asp?gclid=CL-D3KWu35UCFQK0GgodCQtYYQ](http://www.godashmat.com/dashmats.asp?gclid=CL-D3KWu35UCFQK0GgodCQtYYQ)

3, There is also a dash cap, a thin plastic shell that fits over the old dash. There were none available for my Caprice so I can’t vouch for it.

[https://www.dashcaps.com/xcart/home.php](https://www.dashcaps.com/xcart/home.php)

Good luck,

Ed B.