MadMac

Well as planned I popped over to steve place this afternoon (with a quickish detour to SCC to see the work on going on Rach's new FRST... but I think Steve will tell you lot about that later...)

So anyway we both got to Steves house, ordered pizza and started work....






After a hours worth of work, a pizza and few beers we got this far...







So we decided that maybe we should stop fucking about and get on with it... so we did...





This is all the crap wiring we removed, so we could replace the scotch lock's, bullet connectors and household two core power cables with some decent wiring with soldered joints ect





So with the old dash out, and all the crap wiring removed, we put in the new one..






I hope you agree.... it dont look to bad!!



Big big big thanks to Steve (Oranoco) for helping me out with this as without his wiring skills, I would have probably set fire to another car..

Spiky

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would love mine done

Rich_w

mmmmmmmmm Fuzzy

Now all the plastic bits look out of place.

Oranoco

Rachel caught us having a beer break as well.

Ginge !

that dash looks really good in the car stu , the grey dash in xr2's are sooo ugly

class work done

Oranoco

Course it was class work. I done it

Stu drank beer and er.... well he did drink beer

We can now sort the stereo tomorrow. Was a busy day as we didn't even start until nearly 3:00 and we finished for a chinese take out at 10:00.

Most of the time went into sorting the wiring out where some monkey had fitted an alarm using household 2 core and enough bullet connetcors and Skotch Loks to sink a battleship. All sorted and everything is neatly soldered and heat shrunk.

MadMac

Steve mate thats such a lie!!!



















I screwed in the passenger side

Gotta admit getting the actual dash out was quite easy, sorting out what wires did what in that mess was the hard bit.

We also put in about 40m worth of wiring for the stero system, all we need to do now plug in the power cable (the one we had wasn't quite long enough) and its up and running

Jim Galbally

so, steve's good with wiring eh?

can i pop round with mine in a few weeks then

MadMac

Dunno I'll ask him, but he is sitting next to me atm saying something allong the lines "I never see that wanker jim and now he wants me to sort his wiring, what a prick...."

So I take that as a no

MadMac

And just incase jim you did not get it, I am actaully joking

He'll do it for four cans off larger, a large pizza for lunch and a chineese/indian/pizza for dinner also served up with more beer

CraigN

how much is it to get a dash flocked ?

wouldnt mind mine done also

looks the bollox

Charlie Chalk

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craig, a dash to be flocked is from Ł85 from blast central in banbury


Stu

~nomad~

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didnt invite me round for pizza/beer/chinese did ya. fuckers.

Charlie Chalk

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Yes my friend it does

think there only like 4 colours tho Grey,Dark Grey,Darker Grey and Black

SS1

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so no glare back on the screen on sunny days

from the dash top or does it still top job

Charlie Chalk

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no problem mate

Physio

Nice flockin work ya flockers looks well flockin sweet

Oranoco

I love Stu's use of we decided to get on with fitting the dash. Notice there's only pics of one of us working

Jim Galbally

i'm tempted by a dash flocking excercise now
anyone got any pics of sierra dashes done?

Ginge !

big square dashes dont suit flocking craig tbh, small cars look good and the xr2 dash looks good but i looked at doing my saph's dash and looked wrong in the photoshops

but thats what i saw, you may like it

Adam Ash

MadMac

Glad you guys like it

I didn't actually get it flocked, thats how I bought it from Dave Moore, he got it done by some friend of a friend on XRtwo.com

However I am getting new door cards, and the centre console flocked very soon

KSA-Cossie

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Looks sweet as flock.

Oranoco

It's come out really well. I have to admit I wasn't sure how it would look when I saw it in the boot.

What a transformation though

From this.


To This.


I'm pleased to report that the car had no squeeks or rattles when it was taken for a test run today and everything worked properly on the electrical side as well

Brian

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Looks really good mate

Should have my fiesta dash back soon


This may seem a stuipped question but how do you clean a flocked dash


Brian

Oranoco

Stu will let you know once he susses it himself.

Tony Turbo

I know PMSL



Looks good (even though I hate other people with flocked dashes PMSL )

rZVCh46Nv

What an excellent move. The old dashes really let a lot of the classic cars down but that's a superb way of modernising it. nice piece of work gents.

Stavros

Looks much much nicer
And cheap by sounds of it.

Now gotta work out how to make the rest of an XR2 look good

MadMac

I'm thinking of something allong the lines of a very, very, very small combe