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I had a crack free dash...
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Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 08:42:47 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: c900 Dash -> Car Values, Justin VanAbrahams [Profile/Gallery] , Fri, 9 Feb 2018 19:36:55
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Our winter beater came from a climate where it used to be always garaged and rarely parked in the sun. The body was rusting but the dash was great. After a couple of years here (colder winters, hotter sunny summers), still garaged much of the time, but parked in unshaded work parking lots during the weekdays (albeit mostly in winter), the cracks started forming. We use sun shields for our dash most of the time in summer, less so in winter. The sun shields block most of the direct sunlight on the dash and reduce the greenhouse effect in the car, but they are not perfect. I suspect direct visible and N-IR sunlight absorbed by the black dash has the biggest impact on the cracking.

I really think that spending that kind of cash on a dash (unintentional poetry there) needs to be accompanied by a change of habits with the car. It's kind of like buying a rust free southern car and driving it in the salt and slush up here... not gonna stay rust free (or crack free) for long.

Personally, unless the car is a show-piece (which some are), there is probably no justification for installing a crack free dash. Our dash cracks are fairly minor an inch or a bit more at most in both cars, and quite frankly, I could probably find some filler that would blend pretty well and look fine. My bigger issues are bigger issues... like the broken drivers side upper control arm on the winter beater, or what seems to be coolant seeping into the interior of the nice summer car!! (heater core? connections to it?) Not looking forward to fixing either of those, and neither is happening right now with temperatures 10 degrees colder than "frigid" Pyeongchang...

Long story short - if you want your car to stay nice, park it in a cool shaded garage during the day... and never ever ever drive it in winter...


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